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