© Tiss: Siegfried Krainer

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.rer.nat. Siegfried Krainer, opens an external URL in a new window has been appointed University Professor of Integrated Quantum (Bio)Sensors at TU Wien with effect from 1 August 2026. He is affiliated with the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, opens an external URL in a new window (E163) and the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, opens in new window (E164) at the Faculty of Technical Chemistry at TU Wien. This professorship is an industry professorship.

CV: Siegfried Krainer studied Engineering Physics at Graz University of Technology, specialising in theoretical solid-state physics. He then began his professional career in industry, first at Siemens Bauelemente and then at Siemens Development Centre AG in Villach (which was later taken over by Infineon Technologies). In 2007, he moved to the AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology) to undertake an industry-related PhD in collaboration with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 2011, he finally obtained his PhD with a thesis on the topic “Microarray-based real-time analysis of nucleic acid hybridisation and thermodynamics, opens an external URL in a new window”. After completing his doctoral thesis, he returned to Infineon Technologies in Villach, initially as a team leader for “Application Scouting”, and from 2014 as Head of TI COP (Technology and Innovation, Cooperation). Since 2019, he has been working as a Senior Principal for innovation, research funding and cooperation in the field of RF and sensor technologies. Alongside this, he has been involved in university teaching for many years at several Austrian and international higher education institutions, including MCI Innsbruck, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Graz.

Siegfried Krainer’s academic home is the Research Group for Cell Chip, opens an external URL in a new window (E163-03-1) within the Research Unit of Organic and Biological Chemistry at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry. He is also affiliated with the Research Group for Cell Chip (E164-02-3) at the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics.

Publications by Siegfried Krainer in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and reposiTUm.