Prof. Dr. med. Daniela Gompelmann worked in the Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine in the Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Germany from 2008 to 2020. It was there that she trained to become a consultant in internal medicine and pneumology with a sub-speciality in intensive care medicine. Since February 2020, she is professor for interventional pulmonology and senior consultant in the Department of Pulmonology in the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests are in the field of interventional pneumology, in particular the endoscopic therapeutic procedures for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema. She evaluated the predictors of success and of complications of endoscopic valve therapy, as well as bronchoscopic thermal ablation.