Thomas Scherer completed his medical degree at the Medical University of Vienna in 2007. After a research fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and a doctorate at the University of Lübeck, he completed his habilitation at MedUni Vienna in 2017, where he took over as deputy head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Department of Medicine III in 2020. In addition to his clinical and scientific work, he is a member of numerous professional societies and currently serves as president of the Austrian Society for Endocrinology and Metabolism.