Date of birth    November 23rd, 1964
Place of birth    Evanston, Illinois, USA
Nationality    German

Education

1975 - 1983    Maximilansgymnasium München
1983 - 1984    Military service
1984 - 1990    Studied Physics at Technical University Munich
1991 - 1994    PhD student at University of Vienna

Career history

1994 - 1995    Postdoc with Prof. Peter Schuster, University of Vienna
1995 - 1997    Postdoc with Prof. Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois.
1997 -     University Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, Univ. Vienna

Research interests

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, with a focus on RNA.
Current topics of interest include, prediction of RNA folding dynamics, inferring evolutionary conserved structures, detection of functional non-coding RNAs, multiple sequence alignments, modeling RNA evolution. Principal author of the widely used "Vienna RNA Package".