Career
- 1987 Research Internship, Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, lllinosis, USA.
- 1987 Habilitation
- 1987-1991 Associate Professor of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hannover Medical School.
- 1991-1994 Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Essen.
- 1994-1998 Professor and Head of the Department of Neurosurgery. University Hospital Leipzig.
- 1998-2000 Professor and Head of the Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main.
- Since 2000 Director of the Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Centre for Clinical Neurosciences) at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main.
Society Activity
- Secretary of the German Academy of Neurosurgery.
- Senior Delegate of the German Society of Neurosurgery in the World Federation of Neurosurgery(WFNS).
- Delegate of the German Society of Neurosurgery in the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies Training Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgery(WFNS).
- Memeber of the Cerebrovascular Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgery(WFNS).
- Member of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica.
- Founding Member of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery.
- Founding Member and Board Member of the German Society of Computer-and Robot-Assisted Surgery.
- Member of the Interdisciplinary Researcch Committee of the German Ministry of Health of the German Federal Goverment.
Article and Journal
- 1981 Doctorate in Medicine at the Hannover Medical School. Thesis title: “Meningioma and perifocal edema (investigations on the macroscopic and microscopic informative value
of computed tomography by means of size and density measurements)”.
- 1987 Habilitation at the Hannover Medical School. Thesis title: “Arachidonic acid metabolism after subarachnoid hemorrhage. Experimental and clinical studies on
the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm.”
- More than 400 publications as first, co-author and senior author in scientific journals.