# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-hochmair
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:17:05.836Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-hochmair"
name: "Erwin Hochmair"
slug: "erwin-hochmair"
description: "Erwin Hochmair is an Austrian electrical engineer whose research focuses in the fields of biomedical engineering and cochlear implant design. He has been a professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck since 1986. He has authored and co-authored over 100 technical articles and holds about 50 patents. He is the co-founder and owner of the medical device company MED-EL."
tagline: "Austrian engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hochmair_erwin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.24
  momentum:             6.842105263157895
  historical:           5.676386666666667
  currentAttention:     38.01169590643275
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Hochmair"
    title: "Erwin Hochmair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Hochmair"
    title: "Erwin Hochmair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "اروين هوتشماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Hochmair"
    title: "Erwin Hochmair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Hochmair"
    title: "Erwin Hochmair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Hochmair"
    title: "Erwin Hochmair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9384513"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump