Date of birth    June 13th, 1968
Place of birth    Feldbach, Styria
Nationality    Austrian

Education

1978 - 1986 High school in Fürstenfeld, Austria
1986 - 1994 Study of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at Graz University of Technology,
1994 Master degree ("Dipl.-Ing.")
1992 - 1994 Organ studies at University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz
1995 - 1998 PhD study at Graz University of Technology/ Graz Medical University,
1998 Doctor degree ("Dr.techn.")
1995 - 1998 Study of Sacred Music at the Conservatory of Graz, 1998 Diploma
1997 - 1998 Medical Studies, Graz Medical University
2006 Habilitation in Biomedical Engineering ("Univ.-Doz.")

Career history

1995 - 1998 Research assistant at the General Department of Radiology, Graz Medical University
1999 - 2002 R&D systems engineer at Tecan Austria GmbH, Salzburg (genomics/fluorescence imaging
systems/DNA micro arrays)
2002 - 2003 Research and teaching assistant at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics
and Technology (UMIT), Hall in Tirol
2004 - Head of the Research Group for Clinical Bioinformatics, UMIT
2007 Appointment Associate Professor ("ao.Univ.-Prof")
2007 - 2008 Visiting Scientist at the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis,
Northeastern University, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2008 - 2009 Interim head of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, UMIT
2009 - Full professor and head of the Institute of Electrical and Bioengineering, UMIT

Awards

2006 Max Kade fellowship, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Research interests

Data mining and knowledge discovery in genomic, proteomic, metabolomic and other types of molecular and clinical data, statistical bioinformatics and computational modeling, data management and data integration, clinical bioinformatics, medical informatics, systems biology