Siegfried Selberherr was born in Klosterneuburg, Austria, in 1955. He received the degree of Diplomingenieur in electrical engineering and the doctoral degree in technical sciences from the Technische Universität Wien in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Prof. Selberherr has been holding the venia docendi on Computer-Aided Design since 1984. Since 1988 he had been the head of the Institute for Microelectronics until 1998 when he became dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. In 2006 he received the honorary doctorate degree from the University of Nis, State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. His current research topics are modeling and simulation of problems for microelectronics engineering.
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