Dr. Rainer A. Leitgeb finished his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna in 1998. In 1998, he joined the department of Medical Physics, where he achieved his habilitation to become associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna in 2004. In 2007, he received the ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician Research Award. From 2004 to 2007 he was invited to the EPFL Lausanne to join the Laboratoire d'Optique Biomedical. His current research focuses on functional imaging techniques, in particular functional extensions of optical coherence tomography and advanced microscopy, as well as methods of holographic image reconstruction and wavefront engineering. He is the author of more than  100 publications, being cited more than 4000 times, and has authored several patents in the field of optical coherence tomography. He is a member of the editorial board of Optics Letters and of the International Journal of Optics. He is actively involved in conference organization as a committee member,  and conference chair and by serving as a reviewer for highly ranked journals. He is an expert evaluator for projects of the European Commission as well as for NIH and NCI.