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Markus Schmidt was born in Vienna in 1974. He has an interdisciplinary background with an education in electronic and biomedical engineering (HTL), biology (MSc) and risk research (PhD). His research interests include risk assessment, the science-society interface, and technology assessment (TA) of novel bio-, nano- and converging technologies. In the last 5 years he pioneered the research on the societal implications of synthetic biology in Europe. He also produced two science documentary films and organises the first Science, Art and Film Festival on synthetic biology, called Bio:Fiction in May 2011 in Vienna.