After studies in Mathematics and Physics Hans G. Feichtinger received his PhD from the University of Vienna in 1974. He was employed there until his retirement in December 2015. His area of specialization is Harmonic Analysis at large, from function spaces and functional analysis to numerical methods and real world applications. In the last years he has continued to teach, at ETH Zuerich, DTU Copenhagen, TU Muenich, and Charles University Prague. Since 2000 he is the Editor-in-Chief to the J. Fourier Anal. Appl. Aside from a large number of publications he is known as the inventor of the so-called Feichtinger algebra S_0(G), a Banach space of test functions, well suited for Fourier Analysis. It is a member of the families of Wiener amalgam spaces as well as of the modulation spaces, both introduced by him in the 1980th. These spaces have been useful for many results in time-frequency analysis resp. Gabor Analysis, or more generally the theory of coorbit spaces. He had a large number of PhD students and cooperative project, many of them funded by the European Union, e.g. the Marie Curie Excellence Grant with Karlheinz Groechenig as team-leader. The group NuHAG (Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group, at the University Vienna) founded in 1992 is still very active and an attractive meeting place for young scientists working in Harmonic Analysis.