Prof. Hans Kottkamp founded and headed several departments including the Department of Electrophysiology at the Heart Center Leipzig in Germany in 1998, and the Department of Electrophysiology at Hirslanden Hospital Zurich in Switzerland in 2006. Hans Kottkamp serves as a Medical Advisor for Kardium Inc. as well as Principal Investigator for clinical studies.

Prof. Kottkamp´s research focuses on all aspects of catheter ablation of arrhythmias and also on the pathophysiology of arrhythmias, especially of atrial fibrillation. He has introduced the concept of “fibrotic atrial cardiomyopathy” FACM as the leading cause of atrial fibrosis in atrial fibrillation patients, he has established the substrate modification concept of “box isolation of fibrotic areas” BIFA, and he has introduced “multielectrode contact mapping plus ablation with a single catheter” with the Globe array as Principal Investigator.