Gerhard W. Weber is currently full professor at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna. He is head of the department and also head of the Vienna µCT Lab and the research network HEAS (Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences). He received his PhD at the University of Vienna in 1991 and his habilitation (venia docendi) in 2001. Gerhard Weber is a pioneer in the discipline of Virtual Anthropology, a multidisciplinary extension of anthropology into the digital world, and cofounder of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE). Current projects deal with the description and classification of middle to late Pleistocene hominin material, the reconstruction of fossils, the quantitative analysis of postcanine hominin teeth, and the application of Virtual Anthropology to other areas such as archaeology and orthodontics. He recently published on the origin of the Venus from Willendorf and the first modern humans out of Africa.