His career spans three decades and he was part of the team which carried out the first radiofrequency catheter ablations in the world in the late 1980s in Münster, Germany. He later helped develop radiofrequency catheter ablation on a clinical basis and establish it as a cornerstone for the treatment of many arrhythmias. He heads one of the largest electrophysiology departments in Europe in the Heart Center Leipzig in Germany, providing services for up to 5000 patients and performing almost 2500 interventions for arrhythmias per year.

He is also the Chief Medical Officer of the whole Heart Center Leipzig, one of the biggest heart centers of Europe with approx. 500 beds. He is also General Manager of the Leipzig Heart Institute, a large Research & Development unit in Leipzig.

He has been involved with the management of the European Heart Rhythm Association for over a decade. He has served as President of EHRA from June 2015 to June 2017. He previously served as the committee chair for international affairs and also chaired the programme committee for EUROPACE 2011, which produced a highly successful congress in Spain.

He has been for many years Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal with specific tasks and interests in the field of electrophysiology and cardiac arrhythmia and has also served as Senior Guest Editor on Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology in North America. From July 2017 he is Editor-in-Chief of EP Europace.