He studied human medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1983 to 1985 and continued his studies at the University of Essen, where he passed his medical examination in 1990. From 1990 to 1991, he was a physician during an internship in the Department of General and Thoracic Surgery at the Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus Koblenz, where he obtained his license to practice medicine and then became an assistant physician in the Department of Urology. From 1992 to 1993 he was a staff physician and head of the medical department Inst Btl 120 and Nsch Btl 110, Rheine and received his doctorate in 1993. Subsequently he was assistant physician until 1996, in the Clinic for Urology of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen and from 1996 specialist for urology and senior physician. In 2002, he obtained his postdoctoral lecturing qualification (habilitation) and teaching authorisation for urology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Tübingen. From 2003 to 2004 he was senior physician at the Urological Clinic of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen and in 2004 he became chief physician at the Clinic for Urology in the Siloah St. Trudpert Clinic Pforzheim until he became medical director of the Goldstadt Private Clinic Pforzheim in 2018. His appointment as an Associate Professor followed in 2011 and he has received numerous additional training courses, such as in Special Urological Surgery, Laboratory Examinations in the Field of Urology, Radiation Protection and Additional Titles in Medical Tumor Therapy and Andrology. He is a member of numerous scientific societies and reviewers of scientific journals. He has been a consultative physician at the Max Grundig Clinic since July 2018.

Born in Freiburg i.Br., he grew up in Stuttgart and Grenzach-Wyhlen, where he went to school. He returned to Freiburg to study medicine and received his doctorate in internal medicine/nephrology in 2001. He began his clinical training in the pneumology department of the St. Vincentius Hospital in Karlsruhe. There, he received comprehensive training in the fields of conservative and interventional pneumology, sleep and respiratory medicine as well as general internal medicine. In 2005 he built up and expanded the pulmonary vascular diagnostics and the right heart catheter laboratory, which is still one of his professional and scientific focal points today. In 2013, he moved to the Baden-Baden City Clinic as chief physician. In 2018, he was appointed head physician of the Clinic for Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery at Klinikum Mittelbaden, Baden-Baden Balg. Since 2019, he has been director of the Centre for Internal Medicine and Vice President of the South German Society for Pneumology, and has also been senior physician at the Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases at the Thorax Clinic of the University Hospital of Heidelberg. Since 2017, he has been a pneumologist at the Max Grundig Clinic. He thus covers all conservative and invasive areas of pneumology from university medicine through broad care and acute medicine to private practice medicine. In this way, all pneumological clinical pictures can be treated extremely competently and according to the latest clinical and scientific standards.