Born July 26^th 1964, married, two children (age 17 and 16)     

2024 – Professor & Chair of Transdisciplinary Health Research at the Australian National University (main academic position)

2004 - Consultant Endocrine and General Surgeon at King’s College Hospital London, UK (main clinical position) part-time since 2014

2012 - Hon. Reader of Endocrine Surgery at King's College London

2010 – Professor extraordinarius of Surgery at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany (UKD)

2004 - Lead Clinician Endocrine Surgery at King’s College Hospital, London, UK

2014-2024 Professor and Chair of Surgery at the Australian National University

2007-2012 Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College London, UK

2007-2012  Lead Clinician for Emergency General and Major Trauma Surgery at KCH – Level I Trauma Centre

2001-2003  Programm Director of Surgery (6000 surgeries per annum) UKD and sicee 1998 Head of the Laboratory of Surgery UKD and Supervisor of Gene Technology UKD

1998-2004  Principal Investigator in 4 projects with NHMRC-like funding

1990 Harvard Medical School; 1989  Baylor College Houston; 1985-1987 University of Paris, College de France; 1983-1989 University of Essen; 1990 ECFMG part 1 & 2

1985-1990 Full scholarship from the German National Scholarship Foundation
1991-1995 Full scholarship of the Alfried-Krupp-von-Bohlen-und-Halbach Foundation
1998-2000 Research Fellow Scholarship (Habilitationsstipendium)German National Research Foundation DFG
1998 Oberdisse Award of the NRW Society of Endocrinology for research on "Thyroid growth regulation"
1999  Dr. Günther Wille Award for research on Adrenal tumorigenesis
2002 von Langenbeck Award of the German Society of Surgery
2004 – date multiple Clinical Excellence Awards at King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust, London

MD, FRCS, FRACS

Indigenous Pharmacogenomics

Space Research including space hard sensor systems

The cellular biology of fusion oncoproteins in sarcoma

Endocrine cancer

Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

Parathyroid cancer