**About the Editor**

### **Roland Axt-Fliedner**

Professor Roland Axt-Fliedner, MD, is a full academic professor leading the division of fetal medicine and therapy at Justus-Liebig University, University Hospital Gießen&Marburg, Germany, born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. His clinical and scientific interests are high-risk pregnancies and the management of fetal abnormalities. He is affiliated with one of Germany's biggest pediatric heart centres; thus, cardiovascular fetal abnormalities have become one of his topics of interest. Advanced cardiovascular imaging research using new ultrasound techniques as well as fetal MRI within international collaborations are some of his major scientific directions. Fetal therapy as an evolving field makes up part of the clinical setting in his unit, and therapy of fetal open spina bifida is another topic of major clinical and scientific interest.
