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Peter Ertl has been Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and International Affairs at the Technische Universität Wien (TUW) since October 2023. He completed his degree in Food Sciences and Biotechnology at BOKU in Vienna and his doctorate in Chemistry at the University of Waterloo (Canada). He worked as a postdoc at the renowned University of Berkeley (USA). In 2006, he returned to Austria to the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). Ertl was repeatedly drawn abroad, going to UC Berkeley on a Fulbright scholarship and as a visiting scientist to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the Medical Centre at the University of San Francisco and Imperial College London. In 2016, he joined the Faculty of Technical Chemistry as Full Professor and became Head of the Lab-on-a-Chip Group at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry at TU Wien. In April 2022, Peter Ertl was honoured for his research work with the National Research Prize for his work on Alternative Methods to Animal Experiments, awarded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. In 2023 he became Vice Rector for Research, Innovation and International Affairs.

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