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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Neurooncology (tumors of the brain: gliomas, metastases)
  • Neurovascular surgery (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, Jannetta etc.; skull base tumors: vestibular schwannoma etc.)
  • Spinal surgeries of all pathologies (degenerative, tumorous, infectious, metabolic, traumatic spine disease incl. entire spine, ventral surgeries and complex reconstructive dorsoventral procedures)

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

1992 – 1999
Medical School, Ruhr-University of Bochum
1999 – 2010
Department of Neurosurgery, RWTH Aachen University Hospital
2005
 Board Certification Neurosurgery, Medical Association Northrhine (ÄKNO)
2005 - 2010 Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen
2010 – 2019
Attending neurosurgeon and Vice Chair Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Rechts der Isar, TU Munich
2014 “Neuroprotective Effects and Signaling Pathways of New Therapeutics in Experimental Brain Lesions Using In Vivo and In Vitro Models of Ischemic and Traumatic Brain Injury,” Faculty of Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TU München) Academic title: Privatdozent (PD)
2015 Habilitation
Since 2019
Head of Department of Neurosurgery, Helios Hospital Berlin-Buch
2021 Adjunct Professorship (“APL Professorship”), Faculty of Medicine, Technical University of Munich (TU München)

Certification

  • Facultative training in Intensive Care Medicine
  • Basic Certificate Spine, DWG
  • Master Certificate Spine, DWG
  • Certificate Spinal Neurosurgery, DGNC
  • Certificate Special Neurosurgical Oncology, DGNC
  • Qualification Radiation Protection

Academic activities

  • 70+ scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals/books etc
  • 20+ publications in peer-reviews journals as first/last author
  • 200+ Impact factors
  • Hirsch Index 15

Extra information

  • more than 5000 surgical procedures
  • more than 1500 cranial surgeries, incl. neurooncology (tumors of the brain: gliomas, metastases), neurovascular surgery (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, Jannetta etc.; skull base tumors: vestibular schwannoma etc.)
  • more than 1800 spinal surgeries of all pathologies (degenerative, tumorous, infectious, metabolic, traumatic spine disease incl. entire spine, ventral surgeries and complex reconstructive dorsoventral procedures)
  • Research Award 2018 of the Austrian Spine Society ÖWG
  • IPCAI Bench to Bedside Award
  • Acta Neurochirurgica Best Paper of the Year in Spine 2017
  • Young academics price (Nachwuchspreis) of the DWG

Memberships

  • DGNC (German Society for Neurosurgery)
  • Scientific Committee of the Spine Section (DGNC)
  • DWG (German Spine Society)
  • DKG (German Cancer Society, Neurooncological Working Group)
  • CNS (Congress of Neurological Surgeons)
  • AOSpine
  • EANS (European Association of Neurological Surgeons)
  • Scientific Committee of the EANS
  • EORTC
  • EUROSPINE
  • Education Committee EUROSPINE
  • NCA (Neurosurgical Academy)
  • NCA (Neurosurgical Academy) Certification Committee

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