Professor Jürgen Floege was head of the Division of Nephrology and Immunology at the University of Aachen, Germany from 1999 to 2023 and now is a senior professor. He is a former executive council member of ISN, ERA-EDTA and KDIGO, a Distinguished Fellow of ERA-EDTA and recipient of the 2018 Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions to Nephrology. He edits the best-selling textbook “Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology” and is associate editor of Kidney International since 2018 and editor-in-chief of Clinical Kidney Journal since Sept 2023.

Until 2017 he served as associate editor of Nephrology, Dialysis Transplantation. Research interests encompass studies underlying progression of renal disease in particular renal fibrosis, clinical research in immune-mediated renal disease, in particular IgA-nephropathy, as well as bone and mineral disorders and cardiovascular disease in uremic patients. He coordinates the KDIGO world-wide guidelines on the management of glomerular diseases. His scientific work encompasses more than 750 papers.