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Biography
Studies at the Free University of Berlin: Medicine (M.D.) Philosophy and Sociology.
Residency at the Departments of Neurology and Psychiartry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne (Directors Prof. W.D. Heiss and Prof. U.H. Peters).
MD Thesis grant of the Max-Planck Institute for Neurological Research Cologne, Germany (Dr. med.)
1994 Qualification as Neurologist (Arzt für Neurologie)
1995-1997 Clinical Fellow, Department of Neurology Section of Epilepsy and Sleep (Director Prof. H.O. Luders MD, PhD), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland OH USA
1997-2000 Staff and Head of Epilepsy Center, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
2001-2004 Ulran-Professor (C3) for Neurology and Epileptology, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
2005-2014 Director Epilepsy Center Hessen - Marburg, UKGM and Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
Since 2015 Director Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Since 2021 also Full Professor of Epileptology, Goethe University Frankfurt
2020-2021: President of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging (DGKN). Since 2023 Vicepresident of the German Society for Epileptology (DGfE)
Speaker, LOEWE Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER, since 2018)
2023-2025 President elect (2. Vorsitzender), German ILEA Chapter (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epileptologie, DGfE)