Medical Physicist, deeply involved in the surgical clinics of the Univ. ENT Hospital at the Medical University Innsbruck. Long and extensive experience in surgical intraoperative navigation, quality assurance thereof, theoertical modeling and understanding of "clinicla application accuracy". Development of navigational technologies, tools for intraoperative quality assurance of clinical navigation, funder and head of a tranlational wetlab at the Univ. ENT Hospital dedicated to intraoperative navigation with focus on: - application accuracy - augmented reality - applications of robotics - development of new technology for microscopic navigated surgery in the lateral skull base_ - information-guided tools for mircorscopic navigated surgery in the cerebello-pontine angle - radiomics for ENT concology. A lab dedicated to creating surgical innovation by information- and knowledge-based technology.