studied pharmacy as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. He then received his doctorate in pharmacology in Bonn and San Francisco. Before he became a clinical assessor at the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) in the department for drug approval in 2011, he was most recently a research assistant at various universities and non-university research institutes. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and a lecturer in the subjects of pharmaceutical management and drug regulatory affairs.