Mario Bendra was born in 1993 in Steyr, Austria. He received his BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in 2017. After an exchange semester at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia in 2018, he received the degree of Diplomingenieur in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in 2019. Mario joined the Institute for Microelectronics in October 2020, where he is working towards his doctoral degree focusing on developing and implementing advanced computational approaches to simulate and optimize spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive memories.