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Since 2004 Prof. Armin Biere chairs the Institute for Formal Models and Verification at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.

Between 2000 and 2004 he held a position as Assistant Professor within the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. In 1999 Biere was working for a start-up company in electronic design automation after one year as Post-Doc with Edmund Clarke at CMU, Pittsburgh, USA. In 1997 Biere received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

His primary research interests are applied formal methods, more specifically formal verification of hardware and software, using model checking, propositional and related techniques. He is the author and co-author of more than 70 papers and served on the program committee of more than 60 international workshops and conferences. The most influential work is his contribution to Bounded Model Checking. Decision procedures for SAT, QBF and SMT, developed by him or under his guidance rank at the top of many international competitions.

Besides organizing several workshops Armin Biere was co-chair of SAT'06 and FMCAD'09. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation (JSAT) and the Journal of Automated Reasoning (JAR). He is an editor of the Handbook of Satisfiability and initiated and organizes the Hardware Model Checking Competition (HWMCC). In 2011 Armin Biere was elected as chair of the SAT Association.