His doctoral dissertation, which was supervised by Volker Hess at the Institute for the History of Medicine at the Free University of Berlin, was a history of laboratory practices in early 19th century French experimental physiology, an analysis of "Ideas in action: The notion of function and its methodological role in the research program of the experimental physiologist François Magendie (1783-1855)".
The manuscript became short-listed for the Young Scholars' Prize of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (DGGMNT), Wittenberg (Germany) in 2002.
It was subsequently published with LIT Press in Muenster, Hamburg, London (2003), being one of the first specialized works in German language on experimental practices in modern medical research laboratories.
As an in-depth and innovative study, the book tracks the emergence and evolution of neuroscientific research from the late nineteenth century to the early postwar period, while including a comparative international and cultural historical perspective on the brain sciences.
the organization of the nation-wide annual History of Medicine Days conferences at the University of Calgary, he received an Honorary Fellowship through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2024).