Florian Kronenberg received his MD from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. After his training in Medical Genetics in Gerd Utermann's lab, he worked with Roger R. Williams and Steve Hunt at the University of Utah, USA. Later, he headed the Research Unit "Genetic Epidemiology" at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center Munich. In 2004, he became full professor and head of the Institute of Genetic Epidemiology at the Medical University of Innsbruck.
Research interests: genetic and clinical epidemiological studies on lipoprotein(a).
He is Co-Editor of "Atherosclerosis" and served as workgroup member on several guideline and consensus initiatives (K/DOQI, KDIGO and EAS). He chaired the most recent EAS Consensus Statement on Lp(a) (together with S. Mora and E. Stroes).
He has published more than 500 papers including 400 original papers and roughly 100 review articles, editorials and book chapters. H-index: 92 (Publons) and 108 (Google Scholars) with roughly 48,000 citations.
