Biografija
PERSONAL DATA:
Born: 10.03.1963
Place of birth: Herrsching
Personal status: married
Citizenship: German
CAREER:
01/2009-up to now – Head of the dept. Radiosurgery / CyberKnife at the Klinik Hirslanden, Zürich
07/2012-09/2013 – CEO of the center for radiosurgery and high precision radiation Therapy at the university hospital Frankfurt
02/2007-12/2008 – Head of the dept. Medical Radiationphysics at the Klinik im Park, Zürich
12/2006-up to now – CEO of the company GKF – GmbH and the company GKS – GmbH
01/2001-12/2011 – Senior physicist at the Gamma – Knife – Center in Frankfurt
03/1997-12/2000 – Senior physicist at the Gamma – Knife – Center in Munich
11/1996 – Formation of the company PTGR – GmbH
01/1991-02/1997 – Scientific employee at the university hospital Tübingen
Dept. for radiation therapy
Dept. for medical physics
Dept. for radiation protection
ACADEMIC EDUCATION:
05/2013 – Associate Professor in physics at the MNF in Zürich
10/2007 – Scientific prize for „best paper“
09/2006 – Offer of professorship in Charlottesville, West Virginia
06/2006 – Postdoctoral lecture qualification in medicine for medical physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe university Frankfurt Thesis: “Development of methods for quality assurance in radiosurgery”
01/1991-12/1996 – PhD in physics at the university Tübingen in cooperation with the german cancer research center in Heidelberg
Dissertation: “Development of methods in optimising dose distributions for small Fields with high energetic photons”
STUDIES:
07/1995-08/1998 – Research studies in medical physics in Heidelberg
10/1984-03/1990 – Basic – und advanced studies of the subjects physics and english philology at the university Tübingen
Degree: state examination
Thesis: “Validation of a filmdosimetry device for reconstruction of spatial dose distributions in radiation therapy”
10/1982-04/1983 – Basic studies of the subjects physics and english philology at the university Tübingen
SOCIAL SERVICE:
05/1983-10/1984 – Civilian service at the university hospital in Tübingen (Medical data processing, biometry)
EDUCATION:
07/1973-05/1982 – Natural science secondary school Kepler-Gymnasium in Tübingen
Degree: baccalaureate (graduation high school)
Further qualifications
09/1998 – Board certification Germany: DGMP
12/2007 – Board certification Switzerland: SGSMP
09/2000 – Reqisite technical qualification in radiation protection for gamma irradiation, (incl. afterloading), Linacs and radioactive sources
06/1997 – Reqisite technical qualification in radiation protection for technical – scientific area
01/1998-01/2004 – Participation in compilation of the DIN 6875 I u. II
06/2011-up to now – Head of the SGSMP-working group radiosurgery SRS/SBRT
MEMBERSHIPS:
DGMP
DEGRO
ESTRO
German Academic Association