Why are you involved in the NUM?

Because the idea of long-term and interdisciplinary thinking and action across all university locations is a guarantee for scientific excellence and translation into clinical practice now and in the future.

What challenges do you have to overcome in your project?

Uniting our specialist disciplines, pooling them as post-mortem centres at the locations and standardising our working methods is both exciting and challenging.

Is there a word that plays a special role in your everyday work?

Causality. Causality as a relationship between cause and effect is essential in order to understand which finding led to which consequence when and why - for example, was the viral infection the cause of death or did the fall from the hospital bed bring about the death?

What was your career aspiration as a child and why?

As a schoolboy, I wanted to become a forensic scientist ... and I did. I was so impressed by the adventures of Quincy and Sherlock Holmes back then that I wanted to do something like them.