Dr Volovici is a skull base and vascular neurosurgeon in the Erasmus MC and Principal Investigator of the Neurovascular Research Line. Current President of the Netherlands Neurovascular Society (NNG). His PhD focused partly on the methodology of clinical research, and his research delves in part into the methodology behind current research into intracranial aneurysm treatment. His clinical research encompasses cerebrovascular pathology, aneurysms, AVMs and pediatric cerebrovascular disease in the broadest sense. Another area of research encompasses most effective training modalities and programmes for microsurgery. He is co-director of the Center for Complex Microvascular Surgery at the Erasmus MC and visiting professor of experimental microsurgery in the “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA and Uniklinik Essen, Germany.