Martin Pinzger is a Full Professor of Software Engineering and the head of the Software Engineering Research Group at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

His research interests are in software engineering with focus on software evolution, software design, software quality analysis, collaborative software engineering, software repository mining, software visualization, and empirical studies in software engineering.

He received a PhD (Dr. techn.) in 2005 and a MSc (Dipl. Ing.) in 2001 from the Vienna University of Technology, both with distinction. He was a Postdoc at the University of Zurich and in 2008 became an Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology from which he received tenure in 2012. In 2012, he won an NWO Vidi grant, one of the most prestigious Dutch individual research grants, and in 2013 he received an ICSE 2013 ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper award.

He is a co-founder of the TU Delft start-up Infotron that specializes in spreadsheet analysis.