Wolfgang L. Reiter is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna and co-founder and vice president of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics.

Until 2002 he was director of the natural sciences unit at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture. His interests are in the history of physics and the forced migration of scientists from Austria.

Reiter received his Ph.D degree in nuclear physics from the Institut für Radiumforschung und Kernphysik at the University of Vienna in 1974.