Ulrich Schotten

Ulrich (Uli) Schotten, MD, PhD Prof. of Cardiac Electrophysiology Chair of Physiology Principal Investigator on the Pathophysiology of Atrial Fibrillation Professor Schotten studied medicine at the universities of Aachen, Glasgow, and Valetta. After 4 years of training in cardiology at the University Hospital of Aachen, he defended his thesis “Mechanisms of Atrial Paralysis in Atrial Fibrillation” at Maastricht University. In 2011, he was appointed professor of cardiac electrophysiology at the Department of Physiology in Maastricht and became chair of the Department in 2019. His research interests include cellular and integrated actions of antiarrhythmic drugs, the development of substrates for the perpetuation of atrial fibrillation, invasive and non-invasive quantification of the substrate of atrial fibrillation, interaction between atrial fibrillation and activation of the coagulation system, and three-dimensional computer models of atrial fibrillation. His research group is imbedded in the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM) where he serves as board member, as chairman of the Strategic Board and as PI for the translational research programme on atrial firbillation. He is coordinator of the Dutch AF networks RACE V and EmbRACE and PI in numerous national and international research networks. He published >290 research articles and served as member of the European task force for the development of the ESC guidelines for management of atrial fibrillation in 2010, 2012, and 2016. Furthermore, he is member of the Executive Committee of the Network of Competence for Atrial Fibrillation (AFNET) and co-founder of the Maastricht University spin-off company YourRhythmics BV.