Michael Haller is a full professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, where he is the founder and director of the Media Interaction Lab. He specializes in physical computing, next-generation interfaces, and human-computer interaction. Haller earned his Dipl.-Ing. (1997), Dr. techn. (2001), and Habilitation (2007) degrees from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. Between 2004 and 2005, he served as a research fellow at the HITLab in New Zealand, the University of Canterbury, and the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, USA. From 2009 to 2014, Haller was a principal investigator at the Keio-NUS Connective Ubiquitous Technology for Embodiments Center and a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Haller has received several prestigious awards, including the Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship Award, Google Research Award, Europrix Top Talent Award, Best ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies Award, and Microsoft Imagine Cup. Additionally, nine of his papers have received best paper or honorable mention accolades at top HCI conferences, such as ACM CHI and ACM UIST.