Wilfried Gansterer graduated with a masters degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in “Technische Mathematik” from Vienna University of Technology, with a MSc in Scientific Computing/Computational Mathematics from Stanford University, and received a PhD (Dr.techn.) in Scientific Computing from Vienna University of Technology. Subsequently, he worked for several years at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Afterwards, he joined the Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems at the University of Vienna as assistant professor. Since 2006, he is the head of the Research Lab Computational Technologies and Applications.

His research interests include scientific computing and computational science, parallel and distributed computing, numerical and high performance computing, internet security and data mining.