Studies of Medicine: Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany: 1989-1995 Habilitation: “The prognostic significance of comorbidity in the radical prostatectomy setting”, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany: 2007 Associate Professor: University of Technology, Dresden: 2011

Clinical interests: Diagnostics, surgery and systemic treatment of urological neoplasms; Imaging and differential diagnosis. Scientific interests: Comorbidity and competing mortality; Life expectancy and natural history of prostate cancer; Multimodal treatment of genitourinary cancer; Urologic sarcomas.