Tilo Kölbel is professor of vascular surgery at the university of Hamburg, Germany.
He has been trained as general surgeon in Berlin, worked as a fellow and later staff member in vascular surgery and interventional radiology from 2004-2009 at Malmö University Hospital in Sweden. He has established endovascular therapies in the department of Vascular Medicine with Prof. Sebastian Debus at the University Heart Center Hamburg since 2009 and is the director of the German Aortic Center since 2012.
Today Tilo Kölbels main clinical and scientific interest lays in aortic disease with a focus on complex endovascular techniques, aortic dissection, aortic arch interventions and development of new endovascular treatment strategies and devices.