Franz Heinz PhD

Franz X. Heinz studied pharmacy in Vienna and obtained his postdoctoral qualification in virology in 1983 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna (now the Medical University of Vienna). He worked as a guest professor at the University of Graz between 1989 and 1996 and was appointed ordinary professor of virology in Vienna in 1999. From 2004 until 2015 he was Head of the Institute or Department of Virology at the Medical University of Vienna. Franz X. Heinz is a member of the Leopoldina – Germany's National Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Microbiology, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and was vice-president of the Society for Virology from 2002 until 2017.