Christian Weber, FESC, is Chair in Vascular Medicine and Director of the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, and Van de Laar-Professor at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM). As a clinical cardiologist and basic scientist, he has a strong interest in the molecular interactions and functions of chemokines, immune cell subsets, microRNAs and their targets in vascular disease and atherosclerosis. He is the Spokesman of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB1123 and of the Munich Heart Alliance in the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research. Among numerous awards, he is a double ERC Advanced Grant recipient and Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2018-2021 with > 660 publications and with an h-index of 136. An avid road cyclist and violinist, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Thrombosis & Haemostasis, Consulting Editor of Cardiovascular Research, and Chair of the ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science.