Professor of Urology at Lund University (SE) from 2000. Since 1993, Adjunct Professor, Department of Urology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York (US). Secretary General of the European Association of Urology since 2006. Has written 275 scientific articles including 115 original scientific articles, 42 book chapters, 4 books and 135 other publications.

Since December 2009, Professor of Urology at the University of Verona (IT). From 2005-2009, Professor of Urology, Director of the School of Urology, Chairman of the Urology Unit at the University Hospital of Padova (IT). President of the European Board of Urology from 2002-2004. He has been Chairman of the EAU Regulatory Affairs Office since 2004, and Adjunct Secretary General of the EAU since 2007. Published more than 150 articles in international urological journals.

Professor of Urology at Sheffield Hallam University and Consultant Urological Surgeon, The Royal Hallamshire Hospital (UK). Since 2004, Adjunct Secretary General of the EAU. Past President of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons. Published more than 300 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals on different subjects.

Professor of Urology, Head of department at the University Clinic of the Technical University of Dresden (DE). Member of the EAU Executive Board as of 2004. President of the German Society of Urology since 2008. Has published 185 scientific articles, 46 book contributions and seven books.

Professor of Surgery & Urology and Head of Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford (UK) since 2008. Previously Head of Urology and Oncology at the University of Sheffield (UK). In 1996 he won the Crystal Matula Award, which is given by the EAU to the most promising academic urologist aged below 40 years. Chairman of the Scientific Office of the EAU since 2004, he leads and is involved in several UK/EU-funded research projects in the field of prostate cancer, and has published over 200 articles.