Professor Jürgen Haas is the Head of Infection Medicine and Professor for Viral Genomics at the University of Edinburgh. He is also an honorary NHS consultant Virologist at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh. After undergraduate studies in Medicine and Biology, he performed postdoctoral trainings at Munich and Harvard University, followed by a medical specialist training in Microbiology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich. Before he joined the University of Edinburgh in 2006, he has been Associate Professor at the University of Munich.