Marc Humbert, MD, PhD, is Dean and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the Université Paris-Saclay Faculty of Medicine in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. He is the Director of the Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine Department, French Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Centre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris. Marc Humbert is Past President of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), Chief Editor of the European Respiratory Journal (2013-2017) and Section Editor in charge of Pulmonary Vascular Medicine. He has received several distinctions including 2006 ERS Cournand Lecture Award, the 2009 Descartes-Huygens Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 2016 Rare Disease Award of the Fondation de France, the 2018 ERS Award for Lifetime Achievement in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, the Excellence 2019 Award from the Fondation du Souffle, and the 2020 American Heart Association’s 3CPR (Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation) Distinguished Achievement Award. Since 2017, Marc Humbert is the vice-coordinator of the European Reference Network for rare and low prevalence respiratory diseases (ERN-LUNG). Since 2018, Clarivate Analytics has listed Marc Humbert as one of the world's highly cited researchers in the field of Clinical Medicine.