Eugen Trinka, MD, MSc, FRCP is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology, Paracelsus Medical University, Christian Doppler University Hospital (CDK) and Head of the Neuroscience Institute of the Christian Doppler University Hospital in Salzburg, Austria. He qualified in Medicine at Vienna University in 1990 and undertook his postgraduate training in Salzburg before becoming a staff neurologist in 1998. In 2003, he was an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Innsbruck Medical University and then became Head of the Epilepsy Service at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Innsbruck from 2004-2010. In April 2010, he was appointed as Chair of the Department for Neurology at the Christian Doppler Klink and Professor for Neurology at the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg. His research interests include Epileptology (epidemiology, prognosis, pathophysiology, epilepsy surgery), clinical neurophysiology, functional neuroimaging, and clinical drug trials. Dr. Trinka has been awarded by Clarivate as one of the most often cited researchers worldwide holding an h-index of 91 and more than 680 published original papers and book chapters. He is a member of the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals and editor in chief of Frontiers in Neurology – Epilepsy section. He is the Past-President of the Austrian Society for Neurology, the Austrian Society of Neurophysiology and the Austrian Epilepsy Society, and Executive Board Member of the International League Against Epilepsy. He is also President of the Salzburg Medical Society and elected Vide-President of the International League Against Epilepsy.