Professor Uwe Spetzger is 62 years old and received his medical degree 1989 at the Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany. In 1990 he passed the US American medical exam (ECFMG certificate). Spetzger has started his neurosurgical training in 1990 at the Department of Neurosurgery, Technical University (RWTH) Aachen and got his German board certification of neurosurgeon 1996. In June 1999, he passed the European Examination in Neurosurgery (EANS). Since 2002, he is Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Karlsruhe and in 2008 he became active member of the Faculty of Computer Science, Anthropomatics and Robotics at the KIT. Spetzger was the CEO of the Klinikum Karlsruhe 2019–2020. Prof. Spetzger is member of several national and international neurosurgical and medical technological societies and has been consulting for renowned medical technology companies for years. He was the president of the international Society of Medical Innovation and Technology iSMIT2013 and the congress president of the 66. Annual Meeting of German Society of Neurosurgery DGNC2015 and since 2016 the Vice-President of the International Society of Digital Medicine. Spetzger was the President of the German Academy of Neurosurgery from 2019–2021. In 2023, he received the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg. His main surgical and research interests are cerebrovascular-surgery, skull-base-surgery, computer-assisted and robotic surgery, neuro-navigation and spinal microsurgery.