Christopher Lambers obtained his master’s degree in Internal Medicine in 2008 and in Pneumology in 2013, both at the Department of Pneumology at the Medical University Vienna, Austria. In the same year, he became a member of the lung transplantation program and advanced the interventional bronchoscopy unit at the Department for Thoracic Surgery at the Medical University Vienna (Head: Prof. Walter Klepetko). He held the position of Associate Professor from 2018 to 2022. Since 2020, he has been the Head of the Department of Pneumology at the Ordensklinikum LINZ/Elisabethinen in Linz, Austria. His areas of interest are the treatment of (pre-post) lung transplantation patients, pulmonary oncology, and interventional bronchoscopy, with a main focus on navigational bronchoscopy for complex lesions and small nodules. He is an active member of the Austrian Pneumonology Society (ÖGP) and is currently leading the Expert-Group for COPD/A1AT-Deficiency/Tabacco. He serves as an invited speaker/chair for several international congresses.

Michael Roth received his PhD in cell biology from the University of Basel (Swittzerland) in 1985. He received his professorship in 1989 (University of Basel) and is now retired. He worked as a visiting professor at Sydney University (Australia) (1999–2001), at Xi'an University, PRC (2005-2006), and at Aristotle University Thessalonik, Greece (2012-2014). In 1988, was promoted to head pulmonary cell research (Dept Biomedicine, University Basel, Switzerland). His research topics mainly include asthma, COPD, remodeling, genetics, and primary human cell culture. Retired in August 2023.