Professor Dr. Wolfgang Sauerwein studied medicine in Limoges (France) and Essen (Germany). He is a board-certified radiologist and radiation oncologist. He
is a retired professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, a specially appointed professor at the Neutron Therapy Research Center of Okayama University, and president of the German Society for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT). One of his research interests is the use of particles in cancer therapy: protons, neutrons, carbon ions, and BNCT. A major focus of his clinical work is radiation therapy of ocular tumors, using brachytherapy as well as special external beam radiation therapy techniques with photons, electrons, and protons. Other areas of his scientific work include Monte Carlo simulations of medical linear accelerators and the resulting dose distributions in patients.
A core area of his clinical work is international collaboration in treating patients with particles in large state-of-the-art facilities around the world. He has authored and coauthored more than 350 scientific publications and has organized a number of national and international scientific congresses and workshops. In 2020, he was awarded the “Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon” (旭日中綬章) by the Imperial House of Japan.