Christian Schlötterer  studied biology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. After a postdoc with B. Charlesworth at the University of Chicago, USA he re-located to Vienna. He is full Professor of Population Genetics at the Vetmeduni Vienna and is the founder of the Vienna Graduate School for Population Genetics, which he has headed for more than 10 years. He currently serves as head of the Institute of Population Genetics. His research covers many aspects of experimental population genetics and molecular evolution. About 10 years ago he started to work on experimental evolution with Drosophila populations, hence this project is of his core research interest and he is fully committed to the SFB.