Dr Christopher Nimsky – Professor & Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Marburg, Germany – has a special interest in medical technologies in neurosurgery. He graduated from the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany and took part in military service as a medical officer (Air Force Captain) at the Dept. of Neurosurgery of the German Military Central Hospital in Koblenz.

He is a founding member of the German Society of Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery, part of the Board of Directors and the Secretary of Intraoperative Imaging Society IOIS and an international member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. His research focuses on medical technologies in neurosurgery, i.e. intraoperative multimodal imaging and multimodal navigation, as well as molecular biology in neuro-oncology.