Prof. Dr. Bernhard Dorweiler is Director of the Department of Vascular Surgery at the University Medical Center of Cologne. He received his M.D. Ph.D. from Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz 1997 and then completed residencies for general surgery (1997-2004) and vascular surgery (2004-2006). Following a research fellowship at Columbia University New York (NY, USA) (2008-2009), he was appointed Head of the Division of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz in 2010. In 2020, Prof. Dorweiler was appointed full professor of Vascular Surgery and Director of the Department of Vascular Surgery at the University of Cologne. Prof. Dorweiler's research interests include complex aortic surgery, peripheral arterial surgery with focus on reconstruction using biological material and basic science (Atherosclerosis). Since 2015, Prof. Dorweiler is interested in 3D-printing and implemented an inhouse 3D-Printing Lab in Cologne where anatomical 3D-prints are generated to support patient-specific precision-medicine.