Dr Wolbring is a tenured  Full Professor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine (CSM), department of  Community Health Science, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies.  He is also a member of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe, Germany and a senior fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa, Canada. He coined the field of Ability studies, short for ability judgment studies and ability expectation and ableism studies in 2008. His main areas are disability studies, ability studies, sustainability studies and societal impact of science and technology.  As to former appointments he was for example the academic director (disability and accessibility) at the University of Calgary Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, President of the Canadian Disability Studies Association and a board member of  the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. He received for example the 1) University of Calgary 2022 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion award; 2) the  Bachelor of Health Sciences Research Mentor Award in recognition of making undergraduate students succeed in research (2014, 2016, 2018), 3) the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medial awarded by the government of Canada in recognition of the benefit of his academic work to the greater community (2013), and the 4) Council of Canadians with Disabilities, National Award (1998).