Born 1970, Austria. Studied Physics at the University of Technology in Vienna. First visit to CERN in 1994 as a summer student. Doctoral Student in the ATLAS collaboration from 1994 to 1997. Development of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. PostDoc at Harvard University from 1997-2000 in the ATLAS and CDF collaboration. Development of detector frontend electronics. CERN Staff member in the LHCb collaboration from 2000-2004. Development of the LHCb Muon Trigger. General detector physics studies. CERN staff member of the ALICE collaboration from 2004-present. Member of the technical coordination team. Technical Coordinator of the ALICE experiment starting from August 1st 2009.