Professor Christoph Thuemmler is a professor of eHealth and a consultant physician and specialist in geriatric care. He studied medicine, political science and education and holds a PhD in neurology from the University of Heidelberg. After his specialist training in general medicine in Germany, he worked in the NHS in Scotland, where he completed specialist training in general internal medicine. He spent 15 years in the UK where he became Professor of eHealth at Edinburgh Napier University.

Christoph's research interests include mobile connectivity and signal processing in the healthcare and MedTech context. During his tenure, he was an advisor to the European Commission at the EU-China Roundtable on the Internet of Things and organizer of the eHealth strand of the European Commission's 5G PPP initiative.

After returning to Germany, he took up a clinical position as head of the clinic for geriatric care at Helios Park-Klinikum Leipzig, Germany. The Helios Park Klinikum Leipzig is a teaching hospital of the medical faculty of the University of Leipzig.

Since 2019, Christoph has also been the director of one of five nationwide centers for geriatric care and one of two directors of the certified geriatric trauma center at Helios Park Klinikum Leipzig. Following the successful implementation of a private 5G network at Helios Park-Klinikum Leipzig, Prof. Thümmler took over the management of the 6G Health Institute in Leipzig. In his clinical role, he is clinical director of geriatric care at the Erzgebirgsklinikum Sachsen.