Dr. Dieter Pullirsch is Head of the Group Analytics of Vaccines and Plasma Pools at the Austrian OMCL and Deputy Head of the Department Analytics of Biological Medicines. He is assessor for official control authority batch release of vaccines and blood products. He is an expert in working groups of the European pharmacopoeia and EMA and groups related to OCABR activities. He received his doctoral degree in genetics from the University of Vienna. After postdoctoral research positions at the Institute Pasteur and the University of Vienna, he joined the Austrian Medicines Agency in 2010. As a science-driven person he is strongly involved in standardization and optimization of test methods and 3R projects.