Andreas Maier - Pattern Recognition Lab Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier was born on 26th of November 1980 in Erlangen. n 2012, he returned the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as head of the Medical Reconstruction Group at the Pattern Recognition lab. In 2015 he became professor and head of the Pattern Recognition Lab. Since 2016, he is member of the steering committee of the European Time Machine Consortium.