Prof. Freilinger graduated from Vienna Medical school in Austria in 1994. He took his residency program in pediatric neurology in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at University of Vienna, Austria. Then he became pediatric neurology specialist in the Austrian medical association in 2004. In 2006, Prof. Freilinger became Consultant Child Neurology in Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine in Medical University Vienna. Now he is Associate Head of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine with almost 25 years of experience. He is also an active researcher in the field of pediatric neurology and a reviewer for a number of medical journals. His main research interests are movement disorders, Rett syndrome, neuromuscular disorders, and rare pediatric neurology diseases.