Professor Martin Aringer is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Rheumatology and Director of the interdisciplinary University Center of Autoimmune and Rheumatic Entities (UCARE) of the University Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine at the TU Dresden, Germany. Professor Aringer obtained his medical degree from the University of Vienna and completed extensive postgraduate training in internal medicine and rheumatology. His main scientific interests are systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. He is a member of the EULAR Education Committee, a board member of the German Society of Rheumatology and a member of the Austrian society of Rheumatology and the American College of Rheumatology, as well as a member of the Austrian and German Societies of Internal Medicine. From 2014 to 2019, Professor Aringer served as the EULAR steering committee co-chair for the EULAR/ACR SLE classification criteria project.