Stem-cell biology, platelet biology, mechanisms of arterial and venous thrombosis, immune-cell migration, immune-cell/coagulation crosstalk and bio-imaging (including 2-photon microscopy).

1996 graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and received a doctorate in medicine from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
1997-1999 Assistant at the Surgical Clinic and Polyclinic, Klinikum Grosshadern, LMU Munich; Research Fellow at the Institute for Experimental Surgery (since 2008 – Walter Brendel Center for Experimental Medicine), LMU Munich
1999-2007 Assistant at Medical Clinic I, Klinikum Rechts der Isar and German Heart Center Munich, Technical University of Munich
2004 Specialist in Internal Medicine
2004 defended his thesis for the qualification of professor (Habilitation) at the Technical University of Munich
2005-2007 Fellow of the German Research Society (DFG). Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2007 university professor at the Technical University of Munich.
2008 specialist in cardiology
2007-2012 Chief Internal Medicine Physician with a focus on cardiology, I Medical Clinic at the Klinikum Rechts der Isar and the German Heart Center, Technical University of Munich.
2010-2012 Leading Chief Physician and Deputy Director of the Clinic, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, German Heart Center, Technical University of Munich
Since 2012 – University Professor and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, LMU Munich
Since 2012 – Director of the Medical Clinic and Polyclinic I, Clinic of the LMU Munich.
Prof. Massberg is actively involved in scientific activities, he has made several important discoveries, is the author of several patents, and is a member of various scientific societies and research groups.