Peter Schellongowski completed his medical studies in Vienna in 2003 after residencies in Münster (D) and New Orleans (USA). Following his training on intensive care unit 13i2 at the Department of Medicine I (Head: Thomas Staudinger), he has worked there as a consultant in internal medicine with the additional specialism of intensive care medicine since 2011 and has been an associate professor since 2015. He is the founder and head of the Working Group on Haemato-Oncological Intensive Care of the Austrian Society of Internal Medicine and General Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ÖGIAIN), deputy speaker of the Intensive Care in Haematology and Oncology Working Group of the German Society for Haematology and Oncology (DGHO), and co-founder and co-coordinator of the German-Austrian “iCHOP” initiative, which coordinates advanced training and scientific activities relating to critically ill cancer patients across disciplines and specialist societies. He is also a board member of ÖGIAIN and Deputy Chair of the ESICM NEXT Committee.