Bernhard Ulrich Hoehl formerly Michalski Attending Surgeon in Orthopaedics and Traumatology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is a highly accomplished clinician-scientist whose career reflects a seamless integration of elite academic formation advanced surgical training and translational spine-focused research distinguished by his medical education and doctoral work at the University of Heidelberg under the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 125 “Cognition-Guided Surgery” where he cultivated a foundation in evidence-driven surgical innovation he further refined his expertise in the management of complex trauma at the Supraregional Trauma Center of RKH Klinikum Ludwigsburg acquiring profound experience in treating severely injured patients and later joined the renowned Charité musculoskeletal and spine surgery programs contributing clinical acumen to patient care and scholarly insight to multidisciplinary research as a physician-researcher within the Centrum für Muskuloskeletale Chirurgie and the Julius Wolff Institut he has played a pivotal role in the DFG-funded Berlin Back Study (FOR 5177) focusing on fundamental biomechanical and biological mechanisms underlying low-back pain while leading efforts to develop a longitudinal scoliosis database and pioneering investigations into bone quality and spondylolisthesis aimed at improving diagnostics and surgical decision-making his scholarly output includes numerous peer-reviewed publications as first-author senior-author and collaborator across interdisciplinary teams demonstrating impactful early-career citation metrics and a commitment to advancing global standards in spine surgery scoliosis care and back-pain research his work emphasizes cognition-guided surgical planning robust clinical data infrastructures.