Bernhard Pruckner was born in 1994 in Vienna. He received his BSc degree in Technical Physics at the TU Wien in 2017. After completing his BSc degree, Bernhard was offered an exchange internship at Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon where he was modeling laser-plasma interactions using a finite difference method. He continued his study at the TU Wien simultaneously working on his Master thesis at the Austrian Institute of Technology on coupled finite volume - finite element approach for simulating solidification processes in aluminum alloys. He successfully defended the thesis at the TU Wien in 2020 and received his Masters degree in Technical Physics. After working at the Division of Nuclear Medicine at AKH Wien he joined the Institute for Microeletronics in December 2022, where he is pursuing a PhD degree in micromagnetic simulations for non-volatile magnetic memory devices.