Date of birth    September 21st 1966
Place of birth    Thal, Switzerland
Citizenship    Austrian

Education

1986-1991    Study of biology and genetics, University of Vienna

1991    Diploma in biology and genetics, University of Vienna

1992    1992-1995 Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Vienna

Employment

1996-1999    postdoctoral associate at the Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA, group of Dr. Gerald Fink

2000-present    PI at the Institute for Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna Arabidopsis         thaliana

Research interest

Plant development, polar auxin transport and signal transduction, chromatin architecture, cell differentiation, membrane protein turnover