Personal profile

Notes

Please note: the presentation of supervised theses was discontinued in 2025

Professional career

Since 2005
Full Professor for Microelectronics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

2010
Guest Professor University of Bordeaux

2001-2005
Associate Professor at the newly founded chair “Industrial Sensor Systems” at the Institute of Industrial Electronics and Material Science, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

1999-2001
Project Leader and Special Adviser at the Sensor Technology Center of the Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen, Germany

1996-1999
Research Associate and later Assistant Professor (“Universitair Docent”) at the Electronic Instrumentation Laboratory of the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

1994-1995
FWF-Erwin Schrödinger Fellow at the Department of Information Technology, University of Ghent, Belgium

1991-1994
Research Assistant at the Institute of General Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Vienna University of Technology

 

 

University Positions/Functions

Since 2017
Chairman of the Scientific Staff Council of Johannes Kepler University Linz

2007-2009
Member of the Senate of the Johannes Kepler University Linz

Since 2006
Member of the working group “Equal Opportunities” of the Johannes Kepler University Linz

2009-present
Spokesperson of the Mechatronics Department at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (co-chairing with Prof. Andreas Springer)

Since 2005
Head of the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsensors at the Johannes Kepler University Linz

 

Scientific evaluation activities

complete listing in the activities section

Paper review
Reviewer for numerous international journals and member of technical program committees of international conferences (e.g., IEEE Sensors Conference, Transducers, IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, IEEE I2MTC, SPIE conferences, etc.)

Project Proposal Evaluation
Flemish Science Foundation (Belgium), STW (Netherlands), FFG Austria, Swiss Science Foundation, Czech Science Foundation, Norwegian Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (Hong Kong), Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Austrian Academy of Sciences, ERC grant evaluation.

Other Evaluation Activities
Tenure evaluation Texas Tech University & University of Colorado Boulder, Grant/Fellowship evaluation Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft and Austrian Academy of Sciences, Review Coordinator for Applications at the Christian Doppler Research Association and the Austrian Science Funds

Education/Academic qualification

Theoretical Electrical Engineering, Habilitation, Vienna University of Technology

… → 2001

Electrical Engineering, PhD, Vienna University of Technology

… → 1994

Electrical Engineering, Dipl.-Ing., Vienna University of Technology

… → 1991

External positions

Strategy Board, ASSIC, Silicon Austria Labs

2022 → …

President Elect, EUREL (The Convention of National Associations of Electrical Engineers of Europe)

20222023

Deputy Chairman, Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft

2020 → …

Member of the Senate, Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft

2019 → …

Elected president (successor of Anton Zeilinger), Internationale Akademie Traunkirchen

2019 → …

Member of the core team, review team and “Kuratorium” of the “Studienstiftung” (Scholarship Foundation), ÖAW - Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

2019 → …

Key Researcher, COMET K-Project “Photonic Sensing for Smarter Processes”

2018 → …

Area Coordinator, Strategic Research Area of the COMET K2 Center “Symbiotic Mechatronics”

2018 → …

Responsible Key Researcher, COMET K-Project “Industrial Methods for Process Analytical Chemistry”

20162018

Advisory Board, Department for Health Sciences and Biomedicine, Krems University

2016 → …

Scientific Advisory Board, Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft

2014 → …

Advisory Board (Chair), Microsystems Center Bremen (MCB)

20122015

Chairman, Society of Microelectronics Systems (OVE)

2012 → …

Steering Committee, Eurosensors Conference

2011 → …

Steering Board, K-Projects PAC and imPACts

20102017

Scientific Advisory Board, CTR AG, Villach

20092015

Executive Committee, Society of Microelectronics Systems (OVE)

2009 → …

Counselor, IEEE Student Branch JKU

2008 → …

Area Coordinator, Area “Sensors and Signals” of the Austrian Center of Competence in Mechatronics (ACCM)

20072017

Scientific Advisory Board, Society of Microelectronics Systems (OVE)

2007 → …

Founding Chairman, ARGE Sensorik (Austrian Working Group on Sensors)

2006 → …

Administrative Committee, IEEE Sensors Council

20052008