Martin Peter Grobusch obtained his medical degree from Bonn University, Germany, and completed his specializations in internal medicine, infectious diseases and tropical medicine in the UK and in Berlin, Germany. Following a period of full-time tropical diseases research at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Tübingen, Germany, and the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, he was appointed Full Professor (Chair) of Infectious Diseases at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 2005. In 2010, he took up the position as Professor (Chair) of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine and Head of the Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany; Clinical Work Group Leader at CERMEL in Lambaréné, Gabon;  Adjunct Member and Professor at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; and Director of the newly-founded Masanga Medical Research Center in Masanga, Sierra Leone. MPG’s main research interests are malaria, HIV/(drug-resistant) tuberculosis and co-infections, viral haemorrhagic fevers, travel medicine and general infectious diseases topics as they arise from clinical practice. Up to date, he has published more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index: 54) and contributes to several  journals in editorial functions as well as in various functions to several infectious diseases related societies and Winner of the Dutch Society of Tropical Medicine’s Eijkman Medal 2017. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London (FRCP), Fellow of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (FESCMID), Fellow of the International Society of Travel Medicine (FISTM) and International Honorary Fellow of the Amercian Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FASTMH).