Schaudig was born in 1960. He went to Medical School at the Faculties of medicine of the Universities of Regensburg and Munich and spent part of his final year at the Medical Schools of the University of Colorado at Denver and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He started his postgraduate training in general and plastic surgery in Munich before he turned his interest to ophthalmology and entered the residency program at the University Hospital in Hamburg Eppendorf.
After his board certification in 1997, he continued to work as an ophthalmologist at the University, with special interests in both oculoplastic and vitreoretinal surgery and completing his scientific work with a PH.D. thesis on retinal imaging. He also served as head of the ophthalmopathological laboratory.
He has published numerous articles in peer –referenced ophthalmological german and international journals.
In 2007 he took up the post as chief of the department of Ophthalmology at the Asklepios Klinik Barmbek, where he heads a department of general ophthalmology and continues to develop his special interests with a special focus in oculoplastic surgery.
Dr. Schaudig is a member of various scientific societies and serves as a regular reviewer for several ophthalmological journals.
He is a rotarian and his non-professional interests include hunting, golf, ski and rowing.
He is married to Dr. Katrin Schaudig, a specialist in endocrinological gynecology. The couple has three children. And a dog.