Vice President and Deputy Medical Director of the International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover

Born on July 1, 1970 in Mainz, Germany, Prof. Amir Samii graduated from Hannover Medical School and received his neurosurgical and neuroscience training at Charité University in Berlin, University of California Los Angeles and at Nordstadt Hospital Hannover. He completed his fellowship in skull base surgery with Prof. Madjid Samii in Hannover.

Today Prof. Amir Samii is Vice President and Deputy Medical Director of the International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover, Director of the “Intraoperative Mapping and Visualization of the Human Brain” Unit of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology-Magdeburg and Professor of Neurosurgery at Hannover Medical School.

He was elected in 2013 and again in 2017 as member of the administrative council of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS). He is currently also chairman of the WFNS Finance Committee and member of the executive board of the WFNS-Foundation. Previously, 2007-2013, he acted as Chairman of the Neurosurgical Technology Committee of the WFNS.

Prof. Amir Samii has published more than 150 scientific papers and has editorial functions in numerous international neurosurgical journals. He is fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology and received the honorary membership from several international neurosurgical societies including the Chinese Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is also invited member of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. Furthermore, he is Honorary Professor of the National Burdenko Institutue in Moscow and permanent Visiting Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Prof. Amir Samii’s early scientific focus and contributions were in the field of neurometabolism following experimental traumatic brain injury. He has been a pioneer in the surgical integration and scientific evaluation of neuronavigation and intraoperative visualization in neurosurgery. He is also known for his innovative work in hearing restoration with neurobionic implants. Today his surgical expertise includes the fields of neuro-oncology, skull base and spine.