Professor Sculean is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Periodontology and currently the Executive Director of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. He qualified in 1990 at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary and received his postgraduate training at the Universities of Münster, Germany and Royal Dental College. Aarhus, Denmark. He received his Habilitation (PhD) at the University of Saarland, Homburg, Germany. From 2004 to 2008 he was Head of the Department of Periodontology and Programme Director of the EFP accredited postgraduate programme at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands. In 2008, he was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Department of Periodontology of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Currently, he serves as Executive Chairman of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern.