Feinäugle Roland

European Patent Office, Austria

Dr Roland Feinäugle is managing the department for awareness, marketing and business use of patent information at the European Patent Office. Before moving to his current position, he headed the unit for patent information training and was responsible for training programmes including digital learning technologies.

Roland Feinäugle graduated in physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He holds a doctoral degree in physics in the area of space sensor technologies acquired during his occupation as a researcher at the German Aerospace Centre and at the University of Virginia. Before joining the EPO in 2002, Mr Feinäugle worked more than three years at the European Space Agency’s astronaut training centre in Cologne. He also holds a post-graduate degree in law.