Ralf - Thorsten Hoffmann is Professor of Radiology and the Co-Chairman of the Institute of Radiology at the Carl-Gustav Carus University in Dresden, Germany. Furthermore he is the head of Interventional Radiology at the University hospital of Dresden. After finishing medical school at the University of Erlangen he started his medical training in internal medicine - gastroenterology/oncology. After 2 years he started his training in radiology with a focus on interventional Radiology at the University hospital of Munich. After being board certified radiologist he became the section chief of interventional radiology. His special interest is in minimally invasive tumor therapies esp. thermal tumor ablation, transarterial therapies and radioembolization and awarded his Ph.D. for his work on radiofrequency ablation beyond the liver. During his time at the LMU in Munich he was in close contact with Dr. Muacevic and started several scientific projects regarding radiosurgery in comparison to other minmally invasive tumor therapies. He is author and co-author of more than 70 peer reviewed articles, more than 10 book chapters and a large number of congress proceedings. Furthermore he is reviewer for many well known medical journals.