Date of birth: June 30, 1971
Nationality: Austria
Marital status: Married

Education

1977-1981: Primary School, Salzburg
1981-1989: Secondary School, Salzburg
1989-1993: Studies of Genetics, University of Salzburg
1993-1995: Ph.D. Thesis, University of Salzburg

Chronological synopsis of research experience

1991-1992: Analysis of protein synthesis in mouse embryonic tissues in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Karl Illmensee at the Institute of Genetics, University of Salzburg;

1992-1993: Masters thesis, University of Salzburg; Title: "Isolation and characterization of genes specifically expressed in the embryonic nervous system of Xenopus by subtractive hybridization" Advisor: Doz. Dr. Klaus Richter;

1993-1995: Ph.D. thesis, University of Salzburg; Title: "Characterization of a tyrosine kinase receptor, its putative ligand and their role in the primary induction of the embryonic nervous system of Xenopus". Advisor: Doz. Dr. Klaus Richter;

April 1996-December 1997: Research Assistant of Prof. Dr. Hans-Joerg Rheinberger at the Institute of Genetics, University of Salzburg.

December 1997-October 1998: Postdoctoral EMBO fellow at the University of Freiburg, Dept. of Biology I in the laboratory of Prof. Wolfgang Driever., Research topic: Hh-signalling and the development of dopaminergic neurons.

1998-1999 : Postdoctoral research fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK, Topic: DNA array analysis of gene expression

October 1999-September 2001:"Universitätsassistent" at the Institute of Genetics, University of Salzburg

since October 2001: Associate Professor at the Institute of Genetics, University of Salzburg

Fellowships

1994:    Research Fellowship of the University of Salzburg
1997-1998
a) Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship of the Austrian Research Fund (FWF);
b) EMBO long-term fellowship, European Molecular Biology Organisation

Scientific Courses

June-July 1996: "Embryology and Gene Regulation" at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
September 2000: EMBO course "Functional Genomics using high-density array and microarray technology", Berlin, Germany

National and international Collaborations

Dr. Anna-Maria Frischau, University of Salzburg, Austria
Dr. Albert Duschl, University of Salzburg, Austria
Dr. Reinhard Vlasak, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Dr. Helmut Hintner, St. Johann Hospital Salzburg, Austria
Dr. Gerhard Schuetz, Institute of Biophysics, University of Linz, Austria
Dr. Peter Hinterdorfer, Institute of Biophysics, University of Linz, Austria
Drs. Anthony Quinn, Mike Philpott and Graham Neill, Centre for Cutaneous Research/Skin Tumour Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
Dr. Dirk Breitkreuz, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
Dr. Hans Lehrach, MPI Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Annemarie Poustka, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
Drs. Bernd Groner and Carrie Shemanko, University of Frankfurt, Germany