Christoph Michalski is Professor of Surgery and Head of the Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital. He was trained at the University Hospitals of Munich, Heidelberg, Halle and Portland (USA) and has a broad expertise in complex surgery, especially in HPB surgery (e.g. locally advanced and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer), transplantation surgery and modern minimally-invasive and robotic surgery. He is a member of numerous national and international professional associations and several boards (member of the Scientific & Research Committee of the E-AHPBA, Review Board of the German Research Foundation etc.) Professor Michalski’s research focus is on technical advances in pancreatic surgery, on multimodality treatment of pancreatic cancer and on clinical trials in surgical oncology.