Prof Erwin Böttinger holds dual academic appointments as Professor of Digital Health – Personalized Medicine at the Hasso Plattner Institute and the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, USA. He serves as the founding Director of the Digital Health Center at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and as a founding Co-Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai in New York City. He received his MD from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany and continued his postgraduate training in the USA at Harvard Medical School and the National Cancer Institute, followed by academic appointments at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Charité Universitätsmedizin hospital in Berlin, Germany. Prof Böttinger’s interdisciplinary research in digital health and personalized medicine combines digital technologies with molecular and data sciences. He has published extensively and in high-impact journals and serves as a founder and advisor in the health sector.