Amir Samii ReferentIn

Prof. Dr. med.

Prof. Dr. med. Amir Samii was born in 1970 in Mainz, Germany.
He graduated from Hannover Medical School in 1995 and completed his neurosurgical and
neuroscience training at the Department of Neurosurgery at Charité – Humboldt University in
Berlin, the Brain Research Institute and Division of Neurosurgery at the University of
California, Los Angeles, and the Department of Neurosurgery at Nordstadt Hospital in
Hannover.
Following his board certification in neurosurgery, he joined the International Neuroscience
Institute (INI) in Hannover in 2003 as an attending neurosurgeon under the chairmanship of
Prof. Madjid Samii. In 2008, he was appointed Vice President and Deputy Medical Director of
the INI – Hannover.
He currently also serves as Vice President of the China International Neuroscience Institute in
Beijing, as Head of the “Intraoperative Mapping and Visualization of the Human Brain”
program at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, and as Professor of
Neurosurgery at Hannover Medical School, where he received his venia legendi in 2002.
Prof. Samii was a founding member of the Computer- and Robotic-Assisted Surgery Society
(CURAC) and served as the first Chairman of the Neurosurgical Technology Committee of the
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) from 2007 to 2013, a committee newly
established at that time.
Prof. Samii has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, contributed
numerous book chapters, and holds editorial responsibilities in several leading neurosurgical
journals. He is a Fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, an Honorary
Member of multiple international neurosurgical societies, and an Honorary Professor at the
prestigious Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow. He has been invited to lecture at
scientific conferences and educational courses worldwide, delivering over 250 presentations
in the past 15 years. He has also held Visiting Professorships at several internationally
renowned universities. From 2013 to 2021, he served as a member of the Administrative
Council of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
Prof. Samii’s early scientific work focused on experimental studies of the pathophysiology and
neurometabolism of traumatic brain injury. Over the past 25 years, his research and clinical
efforts have increasingly centered on the integration and scientific evaluation of image-
guided surgery and intraoperative visualization. In this context, he developed pioneering
concepts for hybrid operating rooms at INI – Hannover and at international partner
institutions. With several thousand surgeries performed over the past two and a half decades,
he has specialized in complex skull base surgery, neuro-oncological procedures, and both
minimally invasive and complex spine surgery. His clinical and scientific contributions also
extend to the field of hearing restoration using neurobionic implants (auditory midbrain and
auditory nerve implants). As part of an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional effort, he has
secured substantial funding through competitive national and international grants.