Peter Ertl's Biography

Peter Ertl, Senior Scientist, Austrian Institute Of Technology

Initially, Peter Ertl studied Food Sciences and Biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria and conducted his PhD studies in Chemistry at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). Following his PhD, he then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (CA, US). In 2003, he co-founded RapidLabs Inc. (Kitchener Ontario, Canada) a medical diagnostic device where he worked as Director of Product Development until 2005. He then joined the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna Austria where his research investigates the dynamic adaptive cellular responses to systemic stress factors as well as cell-to-matrix and cell-to-cell interactions that perpetuate tissue healing and dysfunctions. He lectures various courses at the Technical University Vienna, University of Life Sciences Vienna and University of Applied Sciences. In 2011 he was appointed Adj. Assoc. Prof. (habilitation) in the field of Nanobiotechnology at the University of Life Sciences Vienna. In 2012 Dr. Ertl was awarded Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Chemistry of UC Berkeley, in 2013 he was invited Visiting Scientist at the Nangyang Technological University, Center of Biomimetic Sensor Science, Singapore and in 2014 at the Medical Center of University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ertl currently heads the Cell Chip research group at the Biosensor Technologies unit with the focus on developing advanced in vitro and in vivo diagnostic systems for biomedical research.