Hajdin Ceric was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1970. He studied electrical engineering at the Electrotechnical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo and the Technische Universität Wien, where he received the degree of Diplomingenieur in 2000. In 2005 he received his PhD in technical sciences and in 2015 his venia docendi in microelectronics from the Technische Universität Wien. In 2010 he was appointed the head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Reliability Issues in Microelectronics. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute for Microelectronics. His research interests include modeling and simulation of reliability issues in interconnects for ultra large-scale integration.