Bernhard Meyer currently works at the Technical University of Munich. He completed his medical studies and earned his M.D. at the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1989. He went on to train as a neurosurgeon in Tübingen, Duisburg, and Bonn, and spent time abroad in Zurich, Switzerland, and Phoenix, AZ, USA. In 1995, he acquired his German medical board certification in neurosurgery and became a senior physician at the Neurosurgical University Clinic in Bonn, where he gained his postdoctoral teaching qualification (habilitation) in 1999. He was appointed Professor of Neurosurgery in 2001.