Niels Wessel is heading the Cardiovascular Physics section at the Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He received the diploma degree in Mathematics from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 1995, the PhD degree and the Habilitation in Theoretical Physics from the University of Potsdam, Germany in 1999 and 2006 respectively. Since 1993 he is a guest scientist at Charité, Berlin. His current H-index is 33 (source: Scopus).