Eugen Trinka

Professor of Neurology; Head of the Neuroscience Institute

Eugen Trinka is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Paracelsus Medical University and the Christian Doppler University Hospital in Salzburg, Austria, and Head of the hospital's Neuroscience Institute. He qualified in medicine at the University of Vienna in 1990 and trained in Salzburg, where he has been a staff neurologist since 1998. He became associate professor of neurology at Innsbruck Medical University in 2003 and headed the epilepsy service of the University Hospital Innsbruck from 2004 to 2010, before taking the Salzburg chair in April 2010. He is a past president of the Austrian Society for Neurology, the Austrian Society of Neurophysiology and the Austrian Epilepsy Society, president of the Salzburg Medical Society, and an executive board member and elected vice-president of the International League Against Epilepsy, which gave him its Ambassador for Epilepsy Award in 2017. He is editor-in-chief of the epilepsy section of Frontiers in Neurology, has published more than 680 papers and book chapters, and is listed by Clarivate among the most highly cited researchers.