Anyways, so thanks a lot for the invitation and it's great to be in Siemens Aritas town,

so to say.

I've never been to Erlangen before, I have to admit, but I really enjoyed the invitation.

You already mentioned a little bit, so the medical faculty was actually founded in 1365.

It's a very old medical faculty, but in 2004 the University of Vienna decided to get rid

of the medical faculty and we're now an autonomous university.

It's actually located in the largest European hospital, there's 9 to 10,000 people working

in this hospital, so it's really the largest European hospital and it's great for me, for

my center, for my group to do translational research in a huge university hospital.

So we have 31 university clinics and we have 12 pre-clinical centers and I'm the chair

of one of these centers.

So we have roughly 50,000 searchers per year and 100,000 and 600,000 stationary and ambulance

treatments per year.

So the university alone has 5,000 employees, the university hospital, the chair of hospital

of Vienna has about two times more and we have about 9,000 medical students.

My group really started, as we mentioned before, yeah, so the center that I'm chairing since

October last year is called Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering and it's

a fusion of former three institutes and so we have two major fields in research, medical

physics and biomedical engineering.

We have an excellent center for MRI, we have a 7 Tesla human MRI and two, three Tesla machines,

we will get a PET MRI, we get a small animal imaging lab with PET, SPECT and MRI and ultrasound

and optics.

We have a large biomedical optics imaging group.

We have pharmacological, we have ophthalmologic pharmacology.

We have a huge digital imaging processing lab that's probably the closest one to the

institution here which is actually headed by Wolfgang Birkfelner which is probably known

here.

We have an ultrasound lab and a mammography screening reference center for breast cancer

diagnosis and we have a lot of CT and MRI and then in biomedical engineering we have

a lot of rehabilitation engineering, neuro-prosthetics.

We have artificial organs in the cardiology field and we have a lot going on in the functional

rehabilitation diabetes field.

The total amount is about 130 people working in this center whereas 55 are paid by university

and 30 of them are academic positions.

I'm about to establish about 450 square meters of optical imaging lab there.

Just from infrastructure it's very nice.

We have two clean rooms, class 10-100 and also 120 square meters of workshop only for

the center so it's quite a huge workshop where we can do a lot of in-house rapid prototyping

with a 3D printer that's very nice for rapid prototyping.

That's just to give you a little insight.

My group really started when I came back from MIT.

This is the group I had when I came back from MIT until I left to Vienna.

These are really the people that do the work that I'm presenting here today.

This is a group that I built up in Karyv in these last three years and four or five of

them now already joined me back to Vienna.

Now actually by the end of this month I'm moving a large portion of the lab back to

Vienna and then the second part will come in summer.

Why should I tell you about OCT?

Back then I really started my master's thesis by coincidence where my former boss who position

I have now asked me if I should do a master's thesis and back then it was really Vienna