Federation (EU-IPFF), an Associate Editor of the European Respiratory Journal and a member of the International Advisory Board of Lancet Respiratory Medicine. In 2021 she was awarded the ERS mid-career gold medal in ILD. Michael Kreuter Michael Kreuter is Director of the Lung Center Mainz (Mainz, Germany) and Professor of Pneumology at the University of Mainz. In this role, he is Head of the Department of Pneumology at the University Clinic Mainz, and of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine at the Marienhaus Klinikum Mainz. He is also principal investigator of the German Centre for Lung research (Germany). Michael is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonology and haematology-oncology. Following a clinical fellowship in Münster (Germany) and a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA), Michael moved to the Thoraxklinik (Heidelberg, Germany), where has been since 2005. In 2023 he took over the academic and clinical position in Mainz. Michael’s clinical and scientific interest focuses on interstitial and rare lung diseases. He is conducting various research projects on comorbidities, epidemiology, biomarkers, and diagnosis and therapy of interstitial lung diseases. He is also committed to educational programmes and is one of the organisers of the annual European Respiratory Society (ERS) virtual school on ILD. Helge Hebestreit Helge Hebestreit is Professor and Vice Director of Paediatrics, Director of the Centre for Rare Diseases, and Head of Paediatric Pulmonology and of the Cystic Fibrosis Centre at the University Hospital in Würzburg (Germany). He also coordinates the Commission on Rare Diseases of the German Society of Paediatrics and is Chair of the German Working Group of the Centres for Rare Diseases. Helge’s main research interests include: health service research in rare diseases in general and exercise as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool in people with chronic lung conditions, especially cystic fibrosis. Helge is Lead of the Core Network for Other Rare Lung Diseases at the European Reference Network for Rare Diseases of the Respiratory System (ERN-LUNG https://ern-lung.eu/). x https://doi.org/10.1183/2312508X.10010023