Franz Pöchhacker is Professor of Interpreting Studies in the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. Trained as a conference interpreter in Vienna and Monterey, he worked as a freelance conference and media interpreter for some 30 years.
He has done research on simultaneous conference interpreting as well as media interpreting and community-based interpreting in healthcare and asylum settings, and published on general issues of interpreting studies as a discipline. His current work focuses on technology use in interpreting. He has lectured widely and published over 100 articles and several monographs in German and English, including the textbook Introducing Interpreting Studies (3rd edn 2022).
He is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies (2015) and has been co-editor, since 2004, of Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting.