Prof. Dr. Adrian Gericke is a senior physician, head of the cataract and refractive surgery department and of the department of ophthalmo-pharmacology and physiology in the Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He published 102 scientific articles, totaling 1500 citations (h-index = 21, ResearchGate data, 28 December 2023).