since 2020 Full Professor, Director of the Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Chair of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
2011-2020 (9 years) Assistant Professor, ISREC Foundation Chair in Translational Oncology, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2004-2010 (6 years) Postdoctoral Fellow, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (from 2007) and Scientist (from 2009), Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, supervisor: Giulio Superti-Furga
2010 Venia Docendi (Habilitation) in Experimental Hematology: Medical University Vienna
2004 PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.): European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg and Ruhr Universität Bochum (with distinction/summa cum laude), thesis title: Structural and Functional Analysis of the Non-Receptor Tyrosine Kinase c-Abl, 1st examiner: Alfred Wittinghofer
2001-2002 (6 months) Collaboration and research visits: Rockefeller University New York and University of California Berkeley, supervisor: John Kuriyan
1998-1999 (9 months) Foreign Research Intern: Rockefeller University New York, supervisor: Magda Konarska
1995-2000 (9 semesters) Undergraduate studies in Biochemistry: University of Regensburg, grade: 1.0 (outstanding), degree: Diplom Biochemiker
PRIZES AND ACADEMIC HONOURS
2023 Rowley Prize of the International Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Foundation (iCMLf) for the lifetime achievement of scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the biology of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML).
2016 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant
2013 Polysphère award of the AGEPOLY (Association des Etudiants EPFL) for best teaching in the Faculty of Life Science at EPFL
2008 Promotion Award for Innovative Interdisciplinary Cancer Research of the City of Vienna
2007 Finalist Austrian Life Science Award
2005 Finalist Millipore Young Cell Signaller Award
2004 Walter and Christine Richtzenhain-Prize for Cancer Research of the German Cancer Research Center
2004 Altana Prize for the best dissertation in biochemistry/molecular biology of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
2002-2004 Study Fund Fellowship of the Aventis Foundation
2001+2011 EMBO Short Term Fellowship (two awards)
1996-2003 Scholar of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes; two awards: as undergraduate and graduate student)
