Dr Björn Poppe completed his habilitation at the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg on 3 December 2010 with a habilitation lecture and colloquium. Prof Dr Poppe then accepted the appointment to the foundation professorship of "Medical Radiation Physics", which he had held as a junior professor since 2004. The Pius Hospital, which at the time established Germany's first endowed professorship of this kind at the University of Oldenburg, decided in 2010 to provide permanent funding. Björn Poppe studied physics at the University of Bremen, where he also gained his doctorate in 2001. In 1999, he joined the Pius Hospital as a medical physicist. One year later, Poppe was entrusted with the establishment of the specialisation area "Medical Radiation Physics" at the University of Oldenburg and took on teaching activities in the degree programmes "Engineering Physics" and Physics. Since 2004, as Scientific Director of the working group jointly supported by the University and the Pius Hospital, he has been developing detectors and theoretical models for the individual determination of the physical radiation dose distribution in patients. In 2005, Poppe was honoured with the Innovation Award of the German Society for Radiooncology for his work.