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Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller-Putz is head of the Institute of Neural Engineering and its associated Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces. He received his MSc in electrical and biomedical engineering in 2000, his PhD in electrical engineering in 2004 and his habilitation and “venia docendi” in medical informatics from Graz University of Technoloy in 2008. Since 2014 he is full professor for semantic data analysis.

He has gained extensive experience in the field of biosignal analysis, brain-computer interface research, EEG-based neuroprosthesis control, communication with BCI in patients with disorders of consciousness, hybrid BCI systems, the human somatosensory system, and BCIs in assistive technology over the past 27 years. He has also managed several national projects (State of Styria) and international projects (Wings for Life, EU Projects) and recently coordinated the EU Horizon 2020 project MoreGrasp. Furthermore, he organized and hosted seven international Brain-Computer Interface Conferences over the last 25 years in Graz, the next one (10th GBCIC) in Sept. 2026. In 2014/15 he was Guest editor in chief of a special issue of the Proceedings if the IEEE “The Plurality of Human Brain-Computer Interfacing”. Since August 2019 he is Speciality Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: Brain-Computer Interfaces. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. He has authored more than 215+ peer reviewed publications and more than 210+ contributions to conferences which were cited more than 30200 times (h-index 82). In 2015, he was awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant “Feel your Reach” from the European Research Council. In May 2017 he received the Ludwig-Guttman Award from the German Medical Spinal Cord Injury Association (DMGP). From 2018 he part of the Board of Directors of the International Brain-Computer Interface Society and served as Tresurer until June 2025. In May 2019 he received a research award from the State of Styria "Digitalisierung in der Wissenschaft". He is founding member and scientific Co-Director of the NeuroIS Society. Since 2024 he is board member of the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering. With October 2023 he was elected to be the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science & Biomedical Engineering. In autumn 2025 he was elected Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. (February 2026)

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Graduate students, in a PhD program:
Michael Wimmer, MSc
Markus Crell, MSc
Johanna Egger, Dipl.-Ing.
Patrick Suwandjieff, Dipl.-Ing.
Markus Oberndorfer, Dipl.-Ing.
Kathrin Sterk, Dipl.-Ing.
Bernhard Golser, Dipl.-Ing.
Lea Hehenberger, Dipl.-Ing.
Mathias Schmoigl, MSc

PhD finalized:
Shayan Jalilpour, PhD (12/2025) / Nitikorn Srisrisawang, PhD (06/2025) / Hannah Wimmer, PhD (03/2025) / Joana Pereira, PhD (12/2021) / Catarina Lopes-Dias, PhD (03/2021) /  Andreas Schwarz, PhD (10/2020) / Reinmar Kobler, PhD (10/2020) / Andreas Pinegger, PhD (12/2019) / Patrick Ofner, PhD (11/2019) / Steyrl David, PhD (11/2018) / Christian Breitwieser, PhD (09/2017) / Martin Seeber, PhD (03/2017) / Christoph Pokorny, PhD (02/2017) / Petar Horki, PhD (04/2016) / Josef Faller, PhD (10/2015) / Alex Kreilinger, PhD (08/2015) / Martin Billinger, PhD (01/2015)