Ibrahim Alkatout studied medicine and medical ethics in Marburg, Dresden, and Kiel. He was a resident in the Kiel Institute of Pathology from 2005 to 2007 and in the Kiel University Department for General Surgery from 2007 to 2009. Since 2009, he has been working in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel. In 2013, he was appointed as a senior consultant in obstetrics and gynecology with the subspecialty of endoscopic surgery. In 2014, he became Head of the Kiel School of Gynaecological Endoscopy and was appointed as a university lecturer. He has been a Professor of Minimally Invasive Surgery in Gynaecology at Kiel University since June 2018, senior consultant at the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic at UKSH, Kiel campus, head of the Endometriosis Centre, and head of the Kiel School of Gynaecological Endoscopy. He received a doctoral degree and habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification) at Kiel University in 2006 and 2013, respectively. His main fields of activity are gynecological endoscopy and gynecological oncology.