After studying at Aachen university, Prof. Dr Stephan Roth continued his training at the urology clinic in Düren in Rheinland to become a specialist. As a recipient of a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft, he studied for two years at universities in Paris, Renne and Harvard in Boston. He then worked for six years at the urology department of Universitätsklinik in Münster as the managing senior physician. 25 years ago in 1997, he was appointed by Witten/Herdecke University as head of the urology department at the university hospital. In 2015, he was the president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (German urology society).