Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania (M.D. 2002)
Research Fellowship / Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig (2002 - 2003)
Cardiac surgery residency / Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig (2003 - 2008)
Central Hospital Bad Berka, Heart Center - Consultant (2009 - 2013)
Central Hospital Bad Berka, Heart Center - Assistant Director/ Department of Cardiac Surgery (2014 - 2016)
University Heart Center Hamburg - Managing Senior Physician / Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (2016-2021)
Professor of Cardiac Surgery / Head of the Programme for minimally-invasive and reconstructive heart valve surgery (2016-2021)
Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Augsburg University Hospital (since 2021)
Full-Professor (W3) at Augsburg University Hospital (since 2021)
aortic valve repair
endovascular surgery
aortic valve surgery
aortic surgery
bicuspid aortic valve
mitral valve repair
minimal- invasive valve surgery
TAVI
minimally invasive cardiac surgery