Professor Lothar H. Wieler is President of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, the national public health institute in Germany. A veterinarian by training, Professor Wieler has focused his research on zoonotic diseases, that is, infections that are transmitted between animals and humans, which account for many newly emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. On March 11, 2021, he was our guest under the motto: A Virtual Conversation with RKI-President Prof. Lothar Wieler in Pandemic Times.