Professor Florian Kronenberg is a distinguished medical professional specializing in genetic and clinical epidemiology, with a particular focus on lipoprotein(a). He received his MD from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and trained in Medical Genetics under Gerd Utermann. His career includes significant research roles at the University of Utah and the Helmholtz Center Munich. Since 2004, he has been a full professor and head of the Institute of Genetic Epidemiology at the Medical University of Innsbruck. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Professor Kronenberg’s research interests encompass genetic and clinical epidemiological studies on lipoprotein(a) and the genetics of complex diseases such as atherosclerosis, lipid disorders, kidney diseases, and diabetes mellitus. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of “Atherosclerosis” and has served as a workgroup member on several guideline and consensus initiatives in the fields of kidney disease and lipid metabolism. He chaired the most recent EAS Consensus Statement on Lp(a) (together with Samia Mora and Erik Stroes) and is chair of the Lp(a) International Task Force. He has published about 575 papers, including more than 460 original papers and over 100 review articles, editorials, and book chapters. His work has garnered around 75,000 citations, with an H-index of 133 on Google Scholar.