Arndt F Schilling is the Head of Research & Development, Department of Trauma Surgery, Orthopaedics and Plastic Surgery. He studied medicine and molecular biology in Göttingen and Hamburg, Germany. He received a license to practice medicine in 2000, the Dr. med. degree in 2003, and the venia legendi in 2010 from the Hamburg University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany. He held professorships with the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg and Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, from 2008 to 2016, and since then, he has led the R&D department with the Department of Trauma Surgery Orthopedics and Plastic Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. His research interests include the physiology and pathology of the locomotor system. In this research area, he has authored and co-authored more than 100 papers and patents and has frequently presented his work at international conferences. He was the recipient of numerous scientific awards and cofounded a company to translate the findings into practical applications.