Martin Petzoldt is a consultant anaesthetist, intensivist and senior clinical researcher at the Centre of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the University Medical Centre Hamburg Eppendorf in Germany.

Martin completed his post-doctoral graduation in cardiovascular research. He is head of the clinical research groups ‘airway management’ and ‘preoperative pulmonary risk assessment’ in Hamburg-Eppendorf. His specific clinical and research interests are: videolaryngoscopy, airway risk prediction and classification, paediatric airway management, video-assisted intubation, transnasal videoendoscopy, pulmonary risk stratification, and anaesthesia in interventional endoscopy. He is an airway enthusiast working in the ENT and OMF theatre for many years and a clinical lecturer in the field of airway management, course director of the eppendorfer-airwayworkshop.de, member of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) and Scientific Working Group ‘Airway Management’ of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI). Martin is a Fellow of the European Airway Management Society (EAMS) and a member of the Member of the Board of Directors of the EAMS. He is involved in several joint research projects, has acted as a peer reviewer for many scientific journals and participated as an author or co-author in more than 50 publications and 8 book chapters.