Sebastian Mueller is Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg University and former Director of its Center for Alcohol Research. Trained in medicine, biophysics, gastroenterology and hepatology, he held academic positions at Heidelberg, the University of Southern California and Harvard Medical School. For 15 years, he was Vice Head of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Salem Medical Center in Heidelberg. From 2022 to 2026, he was a consultant hepatologist in Switzerland, most recently heading the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit at Hôpital du Jura. His research focuses on alcohol-related liver disease, liver elastography, cirrhosis, the sinusoidal pressure hypothesis, hepatic iron and redox metabolism, and hepatic clearance of damaged red blood cells. His clinical research includes prospective outcome and mortality studies, international genetic studies and diagnostic case reports. He has published over 200 scientific articles, supervised more than 20 doctoral candidates and received funding from the DFG, NIH and others. He edited the Springer books Liver Elastography: Clinical Use and Interpretation (2020) and Alcohol and Alcohol-related Diseases (2023). He was President of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) from 2017 to 2021 and was a visiting professor at King's College London and Guangxi Medical University in Nanning.