Dr. Wachmann has received his master degree in 1995 in Physics from the University of Technology Graz, Austria, and the PhD degree in 1999 in Theoretical Physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
In the same year he joined Siemens in Austria working in the areas of biometrics and bioinformatics for technology and product development.
In 2004 he moved to Princeton, NJ, USA, working for Siemens Corporate Research in the area of data mining and knowledge discovery applied to biomedical, industrial and financial solutions. In 2009 he moved from Princeton to Erlangen, Germany, to expand the global technology field condition monitoring within Siemens Corporate Technology in Europe; in the same year he moved to Tokyo to head the group of Corporate Technology of Siemens Japan, working in the areas of smart grid and electric vehicles with Japanese academia and industry.
In 2011 he relocated to Vienna, Austria, where he was leading the development of the new technology field for sustainable urban infrastructure at Siemens Austria. In 2015 he moved into the position as head of innovation at the Siemens Power & Gas division. In this role he is in charge for the operational innovation management to ramp up the new offerings of the division addressing the needs of the changing energy market.

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Siemens Power & Gas offers utilities, independent power producers, engineering, procurement and construction companies (EPCs), and oil and gas customers a broad spectrum of products and solutions for the environmentally-compatible and resource-saving generation of power from fossil fuels and renewable sources of energy and for the reliable transportation of oil and gas.