Positions
2025- Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosciences and Dev. Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
2020-2024 Associate Professor, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2008-2020 Group Leader, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2003-2008 Postdoc, Computational & Developmental Biology Units, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
1999-2003 PhD Student, MPI-CBG / Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Selected meeting presentations
09/2026 EMBO Workshop: "The molecular and cellular basis of regeneration and tissue repair",
Krems, Austria (invited speaker)
06/2025 International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSRC) Meeting, Hongkong (invited talk)
06/2024 EuroEvoDevo 2024 & Platynereis Satellite Meeting, Helsinki (Finland) (invited talk)
05/2024 Gordon Research Conference Visual System Development, Lucca (Italy)
03/2024 GfE Meeting, Osnabrück (Germany) (session chair stem cell biology)
09/2023 ISRB Meeting, Vienna (Austria) (selected for presentation)
11/2022 HFSP Meeting “New Frontiers in Developmental Biology”, Strasbourg (France)
09/2022 GfE Meeting, Hohenheim (Germany) (selected for presentation)
Selected managerial and coordinating roles
2019 – 2024 Coordinator, Doc.Funds PhD programme SCORPION
2023 – Member, Study Conference PhD programme CoBeNe
2025, 2024 Co-Organizer, Vienna Area “DevStem” meeting on Developmental Biology and Stem Cells
2023 Local Co-organizer & practical courses, Inaugural Meeting of the International Society of Regenerative Biology (ISRB), Vienna (2023)
Selected grants
2026-2029 HFSP Research Grant “mech.nano.morph” (co-ordinator: 900kUSD; PI: 450kUSD)
2024–2028 FWF SFB F78 “Stem cell modulation in neural development and regeneration” (PI: 413k€)
2019–2024 FWF Doc.Funds SCORPION: Stem Cells, Tissues, Organoids – Dissecting Regulators of Potency and Pattern Formation (co-ordinator: 1,712 k€; PI: 190k€)
2020–2024 UniVie Research Platform “Single Cell Regulation of Stem Cells” (PI: 191k€)
2020–2024 FWF SFB F78 “Stem cell modulation in neural development and regeneration” (PI: 377k€)
2018–2020 ÖAW Innovation Funds Application “Bio3DPrint :: Exploration of a natural 3D printing system” (PI: 283k€)
2017–2021 FWF Grant P30035-B27 “Dissecting the enigmatic role of Opsins in non-cephalic receptors” (PI: 389k€)
2016–2020 ANR-FWF Grant I-2972-B27 “Stem cell regulation in a marine annelid” (co-ordinator; PI: 334k€)
2013–2019 UniVie Research Platform “Marine Rhythms of Life” (PI: 300k€)
2010–2016 ERC-Starting Grant #260304 HOR.MOON (PI: 1,500k€)