has been director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital of Cologne since 2015. In 2010 he received a W2 professorship for clinical dementia research in Bonn and was named deputy director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Since 2010 he has also been an associated researcher at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). Further stations: until 1995: studied human medicine in Homburg / Saar and New York, after which he worked at the Institute for Neuropathology at the University of Düsseldorf. In the summer of 1996 he moved to the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital in Bonn. In 2002 he became Senior physician there and head of clinical Alzheimer's research. In 2004, he completed his habilitation in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy