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Alexandre René BISDORFF did his medical studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany and acquired his doctorate (MD) at the Institut für Klinische und Pathologische Biochemie der Charité, Berlin and finished his specialty in neurology training in 1991 in Trier, Germany and spent afterwards 2 years as a research fellow in the MRC Movement and Balance at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, UK. He acquired his PhD in 2013 at the Université de Lorraine, France, on the epidemiology of vertigo and its comorbidites. He is a consultant neurologist at the Department of Neurology at the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, since 1995 and head of its multidisciplinary Vertigo Clinic since 2017. His main scientific activity is chair of the Classification Committee of Vestibular Disorders of the Barany Society (www.thebaranysociety.org). He was president of the UEMS Section and Board of Neurology from 2010-17 and is president of the Société Luxembourgeoise de Neurologie since 2015 (www.neurologie.lu).