Professor Markus. K. Diener was born in Mannheim in 1976. He is the current chairman of the Department for General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Nuremberg, Paracelsus Medical University. He is an expert in HPB and Upper GI Surgery. From 2003 – 2020 he was trained at the Department of General, Visceral and Transplantion Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Chairman Professor Markus. W. Büchler. From 2020 – 2023 he was the deputy medical Director at the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the University of Freiburg, Chaiman Professor Stefan Fichtner-Feigl. In September 2023 he took his current position in Nürnberg. Markus Diener is a clinical researcher. As former Director of the Study Centre of the German Surgical Society (SDGC) he initiated, conducted and authored multiple high-ranked multicenter randomized trial and meta-analyses with a special focus on surgical techniques in pancreatic surgery. He is a member of the German Excellence Academy of the German Society of Visceral Surgery.