Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne   Switzerland

Heinz Stockinger has been working in international Grid projects in Europe (European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN) and in the USA (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC) for many years and in various functions. He is currently affiliated with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Lausanne, Switzerland) where he works for the Embrace Grid project. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG). Heinz has been appointed associate professor (Privatdozent) at the University of Vienna (Faculty of Computer Science), where he was leading the Research Lab for Computational Technologies and Applications in 2005. Currently, he also has a teaching appointment with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne). Heinz holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Vienna, Austria.