Andreas Weber is professor of plant biochemistry at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf (Germany). In 2015 was elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and in 2019 he received the Enid McRobbie Corresponding Membership Award of the American Society of Plant Biologists. His research interests include the evolution, biochemistry, and cellular biology of plant carbon assimilation pathways and intracellular transport processes. He is the president of the German Botanical Society and an elected member of the senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).