Dr. Alexander Navarini has been chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the University Hospital of Basel since 2018. Previously, he was a professor of immunodermatology, deputy head of the outpatient clinic, and head of the patch testing laboratory at the University of Zurich. After medical studies in Basel and Paris, he was awarded an MD PhD at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on visual quantification and detection of skin diseases, immunology, next-generation genetics, and gene hunting. He has published over 330 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the International Rare and Severe Psoriasis Network (ERASPEN) for pustular psoriasis and the Swiss psoriasis registry.