(Vienna, 1 July 2026) Oliver Kimberger takes up a professorship in the field of Anaesthesia (§99/4) at the Medical University of Vienna on 1 July. His work will focus on perioperative data science and digital medicine in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. The focus is on artificial intelligence, predictive models and the use of routine clinical data to improve risk stratification, decision support, patient safety and clinical processes.
Particular emphasis is placed on translating digital methods into clinical practice. AI models should not only be developed, but also robustly validated, made interpretable and meaningfully integrated into existing clinical workflows. Oliver Kimberger sees potential clinical applications in, among other things, perioperative risk prediction, intensive care medicine, the early detection of pathologies, resource planning and the development of personalised treatment strategies.
In teaching, too, Oliver Kimberger aims to embed digital skills, data literacy and a critical approach to AI applications more firmly. The aim is to prepare doctors and students as early as possible for a medical landscape in which digital tools will increasingly form part of clinical decision-making.
More broadly, the professorship aims to strengthen the link between clinical anaesthesiology, intensive care medicine, data science and digital transformation, and to help further consolidate MedUni Vienna as an internationally recognised centre for perioperative AI and data research.
About the person
Oliver Kimberger is a specialist in anaesthesiology with a PhD. He completed a postgraduate course in statistics and biometrics at the University of Heidelberg (MSc) and obtained an MBA in Health Care Management from MedUni Vienna. A study visit took him to the Inselspital University Hospital in Bern (Switzerland) for two years.
Kimberger is Deputy Head of the Division of General Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. In 2021, he took up a professorship in Perioperative Information Management pursuant to Section 99(1) of the University Act (UG) at MedUni Vienna.
At the Medical University of Vienna, he also heads the Data Science Group at the Division of General Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, which is based at the Division of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine of the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna (AKH).
He is a member of the Austrian Society for Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine, the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. His research focuses on microcirculation and fluid management; patient temperature management, big data, artificial intelligence, and the digital transformation of medicine.