Norbert Neumeister studied physics and computer science and received his Ph.D. in particle physics in 1996 from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He is a member of the CMS collaboration, where he is coordinating the development of muon reconstruction and selection algorithms within the Physics Reconstruction and Selection project. Before joining CMS he worked on the DELPHI experiment. As a research fellow at CERN he was involved in the design and implementation of the High Level Trigger system of the CMS experiment. At present he holds a position as a research scientist at the Institute for High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.