Ulf Landmesser

Professor Ulf Landmesser acts since October 2014 as Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and since 2016 as Medical Director of the Charité Center for Cardiovascular Medicine. After his medical studies at the Medical School of Hannover, the University of Con necticut in Farmington (USA) and the National Heart&Lung Institute in London, he specialised in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Medical School of Hannover. In 2000/2001 he performed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Cardiolo gy at the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (USA) as a scholar of the Al exander von Humboldt Foundation and received the Outstanding Fellows in Cardiol ogy Special Recognition Award. He was then appointed Consultant Cardiologist at the Medical School of Hannover, Germany. In 2007, he was called as Senior Consultant Cardiologist with a focus on acute and interventional cardiology and as director of translational cardiovascular research to the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Zurich (Swit zerland), where he later acted as Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiology. He received the Götz Award in 2012, the official award of the medical faculty of the Uni versity of Zurich. In 2014 he was called as chairman of the Department of Cardiology to the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany). Since 2008 he serves as Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal, the leading cardiovascular journal in Europe. Professor Landmesser has a particular research interest in translational and clinical development of novel therapeutic and management strategies for prevention of car diovascular disease.

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Ulf Landmesser is a German cardiologist who currently holds multiple leadership roles at the Charité in Berlin, including Full Professor of Cardiology at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Board Member of the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, and Director of the Friede Springer - Cardiovascular Prevention Center. He completed his medical training and doctoral thesis at the Medical School of Hannover, complemented by an exchange program at the University of Connecticut and research at Imperial College London, later achieving his Habilitation in Hannover in 2005. His career includes a research fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, a tenure as Senior Consultant and Vice Chairman of Cardiology at the University Hospital Zurich, and honorary professorships at the University of Zurich and University College London.

Professor Landmesser has established an extensive track record of engagement within European and national medical societies. He is a Board Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), a member of the ESC Clinician Practice Guidelines Committee, and has served on several high-profile guidelines task forces for dyslipidemia, myocardial revascularization, and non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes. He has also contributed significantly to the German Cardiac Society, acting as Conference President for its Annual Meeting in 2025. He serves as a Deputy Editor for the European Heart Journal and was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in the top 1% of his field from 2019 to 2022.