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Curriculum vitae
- 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 - 2000-2004 (3,5 years)
PhD studies: European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, supervisor: Giulio Superti-Furga - 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
- 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)