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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.

His primary research interests are applied formal methods, more specifically formal verification of hardware and software, using model checking, propositional and related techniques. In 1997 Biere received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the author and co-author of more than 60 papers and served on the program committee of more than 45 international workshops and conferences.

Besides organizing several workshops Armin Biere was co-chair of SAT'06 and FMCAD'09. He is on the editorial board of the Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and Computation (JSAT), and is one of the editors of the Handbook of Satisfiability. He also organizes the Hardware Model Checking Competition.