Vinzenz von Tscharner was born in Switzerland in 1947. He received his diploma in applied physics and mathematics in 1974 and his PhD degree in biophysics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He was a post doctorate fellow at Oxford University, in the Depatment of Biochemistry, England in 1978 and 1979, and a post doctorate fellow at Stanford University, California, USA in the Department of Biochemistry in 1998. He returned to the Biocentre in Basel in 1981. He was a research affiliate at the Theodor Kocher Institute in Bern and specialized in signal transduction, studying cellular responses related to cytokine binding. Since 1997 he has been Adj. Assistant Professor at the Human Performance Laboratory, the University of Calgary. His main field of research is the signal propagation controlling movement patterns of humans. This involves biophysical/biomedical measurements and the analysis of sensory systems.