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Dr. Trampuz is an internationally renowned infectious diseases expert, active in the clinical and research field of bone, joint and implant infections. During his postdoctoral research fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA (2001-2004) he developed the sonication procedure of implants for improved infection diagnosis. Currently, he is Assistant Professor for Infectious Diseases at the Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery at Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, where he heads the interdisciplinary septic surgery unit and the Biofilm research laboratory. The research group consists of 19 scientists, working on novel diagnostic and treatment strategies against biofilms. He authored 189 peer-reviewed publications, 12 book chapters and is the founder of the PRO-IMPLANT Foundation, supporting research, education and clinical consultation of bone and implant infections (www.pro-implant-foundation.org). Through the observership program, over 100 clinicians and scientists visited the Charité hospital in the past 5 years.