Prof Philipp Sommer is Director of the Clinic for Electrophysiology and Professor at the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, University clinic of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.

Prof Sommer is an invited speaker, media correspondent, and editorial board member active in peer review at several high-impact journals including Europace, JACC, JACC EP, European Heart Journal, The Lancet. He is member of the scientific committee of “Herzschrittmachertherapie + Elektrophysiologie”, German Journal of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology and Member of the EHRA Scientific Program Committee 2018 – 2020.

Prof Gerhard Hindricks was born in Germany and pursued his medical education at the University of Münster (Wilhelm University of Westphalia). He trained in cardiovascular medicine there and went on to build a distinguished career in clinical cardiology and electrophysiology. Over more than three decades, he has worked at leading heart centres in Germany and now lives and works in Berlin, where he serves in senior leadership roles at the Charité University Hospital and the German Heart Centre of the Charité.

Academic History

Prof Hindricks completed his medical training and early clinical development in cardiology at the University of Münster. Early in his career, he served as a consultant and research fellow in cardiology and subsequently became a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology. Throughout his academic journey, he has focused on arrhythmias and cardiac electrophysiology, contributing to the development and clinical implementation of…

Pierre Jaïs, MD a Professor at the Cardiology Hospital, Pessac, France, working with Michel Haïssaguerre in the Rhythmolgy & Cardiac Stimulation Department, co-manages the LIRYC Institute (Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute) and the MUSIC EQUIPEX; both aim to improve knowledge and treatments of electrical dysfunctions of the heart with an extra focus on imaging for MUSIC. 

Dr Jaïs is a regular contributor to national and international symposia and has written more than 400 articles, mainly on electrophysiology and RF catheter ablation, particularly focusing on atrial arrhythmias. He is currently working on catheter ablation for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias with special focus on advanced imaging integration and modeling to guide ablation procedures.

Dr Jaïs is on the AER editorial board.

Prof Claudio Tondo is the Chairman of the Heart Rhythm centre at Centro Cardiologico, University of Milan, Italy. Prof Tondo's interests range from clinical aspects of arrhythmias to genetics.

Prof Roland Tilz is the deputy director of the Medical Center II of the University Hospital in Lübeck and professor of the invasive electrophysiology at the University Lübeck. He is committed to training in the field of “Invasive electrophysiology and cardiac rhythm implants”. Prof Roland Tilz trained at the Addenbrooks Hospital in Cambridge (UK), Bedford Hospital (UK), Klinikum Bayreuth and at the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg.