Silke Rickert-Sperling, MD, is Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and coopted professor at the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the Freie Universität Berlin. She leads an interdisciplinary research group at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center of the Charité. Her research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms as well as genetic parameters underlying cardiac development in health and disease.

Robert G. Kelly, PhD, is an Inserm Research Director at Aix Marseille University and a Group Leader in the Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles. His groups´ research focuses on the cellular and molecular processes regulating development of cardiac progenitor cells, mouse models of congenital heart defects and the establishment of the ventricular conduction system.

Nikolaus Haas, MD, is Professor and Director of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine atthe LMU Klinikum in Munich. The main focuses of his clinical and scientific work are in the interventional treatment of congenital heart defects in all age groups, particularly newborns and premature infants. From 2020 to 2023, he served as President of the German Society for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Defects e.V.