Michael has a strong background in engineering and medicine with several years experience in Life Science, research, clinical trials, surgery, mechatronics, high-tech, education and creative industries. Before he started working a senior lecturer for mechatronic and medical engineering at the Management Center Innsbruck he founded TiRoLab and goMedics and won th Tyrolean innovation prize in 2012, the Social Impact Start 2013 and was a Future of Tirol 2015 award winner.