Maria Bürgermeister is the Manager of the Austrian Genome Research Program.

She has been working for the Austrian Genome Research Program GEN-AU since 2001. Formerly carried out at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, the GEN-AU Program Management is now located at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency.

Bürgermeister studied technical chemistry at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria, specializing in biochemistry, biotechnology and food technology. She was involved in research at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Espoo, were she completed her diploma thesis. After graduation she accepted a position at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Technology Graz, Austria, where she was engaged in reserach for three years.

• GEN-AU – The Austrian Genome Research Program (April 20, 2004)