Biography:
Tibor Grasser was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1970. He received the Diplomingenieur degree in communications engineering, the PhD degree in technical sciences, and the venia
docendi in microelectronics from the Technische Universität Wien, in 1995, 1999, and 2002, respectively. He is currently employed as an Associate Professor at the
Institute for Microelectronics. Since 1997 he has headed the Minimos-NT development group, working on the successor to the highly successful MiniMOS program. He was a visiting research
engineer for Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, and for the Alpha Development Group, Compaq Computer Corporation, Shrewsbury, USA. In 2003 he was appointed head of the Christian Doppler
Laboratory for TCAD in Microelectronics, an industry-funded research group embedded in the Institute for Microelectronics. His current scientific interests include circuit and device
simulation, device modeling, and reliability issues.