Prof. Thomas Knoll studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. He then completed his doctorate at the University Hospital of Mannheim and received his doctorate from F. J. van der Woude in 1998. This was followed by his habilitation in urology in 2005. At the same time, he studied health care management at the University of Mannheim and graduated with a Master of Science.
After several years as a junior doctor in various areas of the university clinic, he became a specialist in urology in 2004 and head of the department of minimally invasive urology/urolithiasis. In 2005 he was appointed chief physician at the university clinic for urology and in 2007 extraordinary professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Since August 2008 he has been chief physician at the urological clinic at the Sindelfingen-Böblingen Clinic.
Thanks to his clinical and experimental work, he is regarded as a renowned expert on urinary stones and prostate diseases. For many years he was chairman of the working group on urinary stones of the German Urological Society (DGU). He has been a member of the Guidelines Office of the European Association of Urology (EAU) since 2014 and a member of the Scientific Office of the EAU since 2015. At the 31st World Congress of Minimally Invasive Urology in New Orleans, Prof. Dr. Thomas Knoll received the "Arthur Smith Award" for his outstanding work in research and teaching.
He is also the author of the book "Clinical Management of Urolithiasis".
Selected publications from PubMed
Regulating Innovation: Why the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act Matters for Urologists-Recommendations from the EAU AI Working Group.
Duwe G, Knoll T, Kowalewski KF
Eur Urol. 2026 Sep;90(3):187-190 doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2026.05.026.
From Surgical Data Capture to Surgical AI: Democratising Surgery Requires Open Data Governance Referring to the article: "When the Platform Owns the Procedure: Intellectual Property Rights and Robotic Surgery".
Kowalewski KF, De Backer P, Knoll T, Wagner C
Eur Urol. 2026 Aug 26 pii: S0302-2838(26)02343-2. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2026.08.006.
Knowledge Gaps and Barriers to Care in Men with Postprostatectomy Incontinence: Evidence from the German ProKontinenz Trial.
Menzel V, Kowalski C, Schellack SK, Koch R, Dieng S, Haferkamp A, Winter A, Blana A, Schwarzer C, Gonsior A, Tully KH, Baltes S, Kausch I, Manseck A, Deger S, Jamour F, Erdmann J, Kunz IH, Kujau H, Schleder M, Schulze A, Ramm J, Straub M, Koenig J, Wielander D, Neisius A, Gerbershagen HP, Wezel F, Conrad S, Hofmann R, Müller S, Sievert KD, Pradhan R, Riexinger R, Stamm P, Knoll T, Hahn O, Graff J, Carl EG, Huber J, Thomas C, Baunacke M
Eur Urol Open Sci. 2026 Aug;90:33-41 doi: 10.1016/j.euros.2026.04.014.
From the 10-20 mm gray zone to a 15 mm stone size cutoff for pediatric urolithiasis management: do guidelines need revisiting? . A systematic review and meta-analysis by the EAU Section of Endourology.
Guven S, Sonmez MG, Tozsin A, Ortner G, Akgul B, Turaliev N, Cavdar OF, Kallidonis P, Tokas T, Knoll T, Silay S, Omar MI, Yuan Y, Ahmed K, Somani B
Minerva Urol Nephrol. 2026 Jun 29 doi: 10.23736/S2724-6051.26.06874-6.
Reply to Marcio Covas Moschovas, Mischa Dohler, Mohamad Omar Al Kalaa, and Vipul Patel's Letter to the Editor re: Bhaskar K. Somani, Jens Rassweiler, Evangelos Liatsikos, et al. European Association of Urology Policy on Telesurgery. Eur Urol 2025;88:318-24.
Somani BK, Rassweiler J, Liatsikos E, Mottrie A, Knoll T, Bedke J, Bianchi G, Sarica K, Briganti A, Brouwers T, Breda A
Eur Urol. 2026 May;89(5):e117-e118 doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2025.11.012.
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