At the time the article was written, he was a research assistant at the IQWiG 1990 State Examination in Pharmacy. 2000 degree in economics, politics and sociology. 2004 Master of Public Health. In between, he worked as a pharmacist in hospital and office pharmacies. From 1994 to 1997 patient representative at the Nuremberg Clinic. Until 2005, research assistant at the Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine & Health Systems Research at the Hannover Medical School. Since May 2005, he has worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) (initially in the drug evaluation department, since April 2007 in the health economics department) in Cologne. Since 2011 he has been a senior speaker for health economics at the Association of Research-Based Drug Manufacturers (vfa) in Berlin.