Professor Markus Kupka is in fulltime clinical-academic practice at one of the largest IVF-units in Germany and at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Since 1998 he is a member of the steering committee of the German IVF Registry (DIR). Since 2005 he is member, chair and special advisor of the European IVF monitoring consortium (EIM) organized by the European Society of Human reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). Collection, validation and utilization of ART-data are his focus in research especially because he also was trained in Medical informatics.