Prof. Dr. med. Prof. honoraire Dr. h.c. Christos C. Zouboulis is full Professor of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg and Director of the Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology, Staedtisches Klinikum Dessau, Dessau, Germany. He is also Professeur honoraire at the Medical Faculty, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France and Dr. h.c. of the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens, Greece.

Prof. Zouboulis has studied medicine and political sciences at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He performed pre-doctoral work on cell biology at the Department of Dermatology, Benjamin Franklin Medical Center, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany where he was awarded his thesis title (Dr. med.) in 1988. He further continued his postgraduate medical education and completed the residencies in Dermatology and Venereology as well as in Allergology at the same department. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA for a research fellowship on molecular biology, and the Department of Dermatology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA as well as the Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA for clinical research before returning as faculty member at the Department of Dermatology, Freie Universitaet Berlin, where he accomplished his habilitation thesis (Priv.-Doz.) in 1995. In 2000, he was named Professor of Dermatology and Venereology of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, where he served as Vice Chair of the Department of Dermatology from 2000 to 2005. In 2005 he was elected Director of the Departments of Dermatology, Venereology, Allergology and Immunology at the Staedtisches Klinikum Dessau, Dessau, Germany, in 2016 Founding Professor of Dermatology and Venereology at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Germany and in 2019 co-opted Professor of Dermatology, at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandeburg.

Prof. Zouboulis is President of the European Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation e.V., the German Registry Adamantiades-Behçet Disease e.V., the Berlin Foundation of Dermatology and the Section Saxony-Anhalt of the Federation of German Allergologists; Honorary President of the European Society of Preventive, Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine (ESAAM), Executive Committee Member of the International Society on Behçet’s Disease, Board Member of the European Reference Network of Rare and Complex Skin Diseases, coordinator of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Task Force on Acne, Rosacea and Hidradenitis Suppurativa. He is Editor of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) News, Co-Editor of Rejuvenation Research and serves in the Editorial Boards of several leading international scientific journals.

He has received numerous awards for his scientific work, including the EADV Research Fellowship, the Oskar Gans Major Prize of the German Dermatological Society, the Nékám Award of the Hungarian Dermatological Society, the Felix Wankel Animal Protection Research Prize, the Gerson Unna Prize on Immunology, the Skin Cancer Prize, the “Beauty Care Prize” for Dermatological Research, the "Germany land of ideas - 2009 place of excellence" for Skin Stem Cell Research, the “Geroulanos Prize” for History of Medicine, the Paul “Liérac Research Award” for Skin Aging Research, the Springer Prize for Dermatology, the Open Health Alliance Excellence Award, and the Honorary Membership of the Patients` Charity „Deutsche Interessengemeinschaft Akne inversa e.V.“)

Prof. Zouboulis was elected Prof. honoraire of the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, Dr. h.c. of the National Kapodistria University of Athens, Visiting Professor of the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai, China and European Union Teaching Professor at the Europa University of Kaunas, Lithuania. He has received the silver medal (highest academic recognition) of the Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland, the Medal of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and is honorary member of the French, the Hungarian, the Italian, the Lithuanian, the Maltese and the Portuguese Dermatological Societies.

Prof. Zouboulis has performed fundamental research - among other fields - on Dermato-Endocrinology and sebaceous glands, acne, hidradenitis suppurativa/acne inversa, skin stem cells, molecular ageing, dermato-pharmacology, cryosurgery, and rare diseases including Adamantiades-Behçet disease. He is the author of more than 1150 publications (cumulative impact factor >3300; h index 117, citations >54,000), has given over 1000 invited lectures, has organized numerous conferences and is owner of six patents, including one for the SZ95 sebaceous gland cell line, an in vitro model for acne, aging and lipid research. He has first described the flashing pulsating angioma and the trias of keratosis pilaris, ulerythema ophryogenes and 18p monosomy, whereas the latter has been confirmed by several other authors and has been proposed as Zouboulis syndrome.