Arnaud Van Linden graduated in 2008 as a medical doctor at the Leipzig University. He started his residency at Leipzig Heart Center in 2008. He continued his residency at Kerckhoff Clinic Bad Nauheim and graduated as a cardiac surgeon in 2015. He is now a senior staff surgeon at Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt. His areas of interest are minimally invasive heart valve surgery, aortic arch surgery, cardiovascular imaging and transcatheter valve therapies.