Nicola Zitzmann is Professor and Chair of the Department of Reconstructive Dentistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is Past President of the International College of Prosthodontics, chairs the ITI Section Switzerland, and is a board member of the Swiss Society of Oral Implantology (SGI) and the Swiss Society of Reconstructive Dentistry (SSRD). Nicola Zitzmann has authored more than 140 original publications, 70 papers and book chapters and received the Jan Lindhe Research Award in 2014 for her scientific achievements in implant dentistry.