Draft:Christoph Trattner

Christoph Trattner (born February 4, 1980) is an Austrian information scientist and researcher specializing in artificial intelligence. He is a professor at the University of Bergen and the Director of SFI MediaFutures, a center for responsible media technologies and innovation funded by the Research Council of Norway with 280 million NOK.

Education and career
Trattner earned his bachelor's degree, master's degree, and doctorate in informatics and telematics from Technische Universität Graz. He is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a former research fellow at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency and the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). Trattner has previously held positions at Technische Universität Graz (2009-2012), the University of Pittsburgh (2011-2012), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2014-2015).

Research
Trattner's research focuses on behavioral analytics and recommender systems. He has published over 150 scientific articles, including works in Nature Sustainability, the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), the European Physical Journal, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), and the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval.