Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Franz Strauss graduated from the University of Finis Terrae, Chile in 2010. He completed his two-and-a-half-year residency in Periodontics at the University Valparaiso and his Master of Science in 2015 at the University of Chile. In 2017 he moved to Vienna for his PhD at the Department of Oral Biology at the Medical University of Vienna under the mentorship of Prof. Reinhard Gruber. Since September 2019 he has been serving as a Research Assistant at the Clinic of Reconstructive Dentistry. In 2020 Dr. Strauss was appointed assistant Professor at the University of Chile and in 2023 Senior Lecturer at the Clinic of Reconstructive Dentistry. Currently, he is completing a Master of Science in Evidence-Based Health Care Medical Statistics at the University of Oxford. His main research focus has been oral regeneration and implant dentistry, designing and conducting basic, pre-clinical and clinical research, publishing more than 80 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, while serving as a reviewer for several journals in periodontics and implant dentistry — including being the current section editor for Implantology in the Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry.

Dr. Strauss has been recipients of several scholarships and research grants either as a principal investigator or co-investigator, including ITI, ORF, SSO, Osteology Foundation and Geistlich-Stucki Foundation.