Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist and Research Group Leader, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany.
He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He completed his MD thesis at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg in the field of basic immunology. Completed his residency and fellowship in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Transplantation Medicine at Hannover Medical School. Research postdoc for more than 4 years, research PI and group leader at Hannover Medical School on immune-mediated liver diseases before and after liver transplantation.