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 Urology, Head of department at the Medical University of Vienna. Honorary fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (UK), Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Semmelweis University in Budapest (HU). Honorary Member of 21 urological Associations. Published over 500 articles, and edited five textbooks on urology.

Director of the Oncology Centre Antwerp (BE) since 1998. Introduced transrectal ultrasonography in Europe in 1976. Active in new drug development and clinical research studies in urological oncology. Served as President or Board Member of a number of international urological/oncological organisations including EORTC and UICC. Honorary Member of six urological associations. Co-coordinator of the ERSPC, founder/secretary of Europa UOMO, chair of US TOO Belgium. (Co-)edited over 50 books and monographs and over 300 peer reviewed articles.

He is currently a staff member at the Department of Urologic Oncology at Hannover Medical School and the Director of the Urologic Oncology Program. Dr. Merseburger obtained his medical degree from Hannover Medical School in 2002 following a one year academic research program in Washington D.C. (Prof. Dr. Judd W. Moul) where he finished his M.D. thesis. Following residency in Surgery and Urology at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen (Prof. A. Stenzl) he underwent a Research Fellowship at Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA (Prof. M. Soloway/Prof. V. B. Lokeshwar) in 2006.

In 2008 he accepted a position in Hannover (Prof. M. Kuczyk) as staff member and was promoted to Associate Professorship in 2009. He is board certified for Urology and a member of numerous national and international urological and oncological associations. He serves as reviewer and in the editorial board for many journals and is the Associate Editor for the World Journal of Urology and Editor in Chief of “You Are Urology”. Furthermore he is a member of the one EAU Guideline group and the Chairman of the EAU Guideline group for Lasers and Technologies. For his molecular and clinical research, Dr. Merseburger has won multiple awards, stipends and prizes. He has published more than 120 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Since 2002, Honorary Professor of Urology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL). Studied medicine at the Universities of Hamburg, Marburg and Saarbrücken (DE). Completed international urology training in 1972. Became professor in 1977. Active in the EORTC-GU Group from 1982 to 1992. On the editorial board of many urological journals. International coordinator European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC). Honorary member of the American, German, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Greek and other urological associations.

Head of the Urology Department of Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg (AT) since 2009. Studied medicine at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck (AT), graduating in 1973. Specialised in Urology in Mainz (DE) and Innsbruck, becoming Professor of Urology in 1993. Visiting Professor at several European universities, member of the EAU Scientific Committee. Honorary member of the Hungarian Association of Urology and the New York Section of the American Urological Association.

Graduated in Medicine by the Faculty of Medicine of Porto in 1979. In 1990 he obtained the title of Specialist in Urology In 1993 achieved the PhD. In 2002 he was appointed Vice-chairman and in 2004 Professor and Chairman of the Department of Urology of the Hospital S João and Faculty of Medicine of Porto, positions held at the present moment. He is member of several international societies including the European Association of Urology and the International Continence Society. He is also member of the Board of the European Society of Female and Functional Urology (ESFFU) and since 2004 member of the Scientific Committee of the European Association of Urology and of the WHO expert panels for Incontinence and BPH. Since 2006 he is member of the Editorial Board of European Urology and Neurourology and Urodynamics. He authored numerous papers and chapter books and oriented several PhD thesis in the area of functional urology. Francisco Cruz has been primary investigators in several national and international research projects and is leading one of the consortium members of a large EU funded project on incontinence.

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.