Andreas Unterberg - Biography#

Professor Dr. med. Andreas W. Unterberg is currently Chairman and Director of the Department of Neuro¬surgery at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

He studied medicine at the Justus-Liebig-University in Gießen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich from 1974 to 1981. He achieved his M.D. degree in 1982. During the following years he was a research fellow at the Institute for Surgical Research in Munich (Director: Professor Dr. A. Baethman). In 1985 and 1986 he was a research fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Division of Neurological Surgery of the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond/Va./USA, working under Professor Antony Marmarou. His habilitation thesis was finished in 1988 at the LMU Munich.

From 1987 to 1990 he was a resident at the Department of Neurosurgery in Munich (Director: Professor Dr. F. Marguth). In 1990 he became Associate Professor at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Free University in Berlin. In 1991 he was promoted to a full Professor of Neurosurgery. Since 1995 he was Vice Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Charité, Humboldt-University of Berlin. In 2003 he became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery in Heidelberg.