Michael Rabl

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About Michael Rabl

Michael Rabl is Professor of Sensor Technology and Mechatronics at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. He is Head of the Bachelor’s Degree Pro-gramme Innovation Engineering and Management and the international Master’s Degree Programme Innovation and Product Management. He is acting as an inde-pendent expert for the European Commission for Research and Technological De-velopment. As a senior researcher he was part of an international research group at the Universtity of California Los Angeles working on the development of methods to cultivate algae as a feedstock for biofuels. In 2002 Michael Rabl became a full-time professor of Sensor Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Wels, Upper Austria, and was named Head of Study of Innovation and Product Management in 2003. In he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany. In 2013 he received his MBA in Innovation and Business Creation from Technische Universtät Mün-chen, Germany. From to 2002 he worked for Siemens AG in Munich, first as an R&D engineer and later as a product manager. His current research interests are in the field of mechatronics, innovation management and the development of in-ternational study programmes.