Date of birth    July 20, 1950
Place of birth    Graz, Austria
Nationality    Austria

Education

1960 - 1968    High School
1968 - 1973    Graduate studies of Chemistry at University of Graz
1973 - 1974    Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Graz
1975    Ph.D., Chemistry
1990     Course: Advances in Biotechnology. Animal cell culture; University of Canterbury, UK

Career history

1975 - 1976    Post-doctoral fellow, Max-Planck Institute of Radiation Chemistry in Muelheim/Ruhr, Germany (Max Planck fellowship)
1976     University Assistant at the Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz University of Technology
1983 - 1984    Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
1987    Habilitation in Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, Graz University of Technology
since 1991    Associate Professor, Institute of Biochemistry, Graz University of Technology
1998     Visiting Professor at the University of Regensburg
since 2002    Key researcher (enzyme analytics) at the Research Center for Applied Biocatalysis, Graz University of Technology

Career related activities

1993 - 1998    Board member of the Austrian Atherosclerosis Society
1991 - 1994, 1996 - 1999, 2004 Board Member of the Austrian Biochemical Society
1996 ? 2001    Austrian delegate in the management committee of COST 916 "Bioactive components of plant cell walls"

Awards

1983    Max Kade Fellowship, Austrian Academy of Sciences
1990    Sandoz-Prize for Chemistry

Research interests

Fluorescence technology; lipids and lipid-associated proteins in medicine and biotechnology; Functional proteomics; Biochips for enzymology.