Curriculum Vitae

Uni­ver­sity Education

1995 – 2002Dip­loma stud­ies in genet­ics at the Uni­ver­sity of Salzburg (Aus­tria) with an early focus on elec­tron microscopy

2002 – 2006Doc­toral stud­ies in molecu­lar and cell bio­logy at the Uni­ver­sity of Salzburg (Austria)

Professional Pos­i­tions and Functions

2003Consultant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to develop a high-end electron microscopy facility in Vienna

2006 – 2011Head of the joint Elec­tron Micro­scopy Facil­ity of the Research Insti­tute of Molecu­lar Patho­logy (IMP), the Insti­tute of Molecu­lar Bio­tech­no­logy (IMBA), and the Gregor Mendel Insti­tute of Molecu­lar Plant Bio­logy (GMI) at Vienna Bio­cen­ter (Austria)

2008 – 2022Lec­turer for Elec­tron Micro­scopy at the Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­ences Wiener Neustadt (Austria)

2012 – 2014Head of the Elec­tron Micro­scopy Facil­ity of the Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities (VBCF; formerly Cam­pus Sci­ence Sup­port Facil­it­ies) in Austria

2012 – 2017Board Mem­ber of the Aus­trian Soci­ety for Elec­tron Microscopy

2013 – presentFounder and owner of Nexperion e.U.

2018 – presentOfficial first-level support for SerialEM

Selec­ted Courses and Meetings

2000FEBS Course on “Elec­tron Micro­scopy and Ste­re­ology in Molecu­lar Cell Bio­logy” (Oslo, Norway)

2002EMBO Course on “Cryo-​Electron Micro­scopy and 3-​D image recon­struc­tion” (Heidel­berg, Germany)

2004Instructor at the FEBS Course “Visu­al­ising Cyto­skel­eton Dynam­ics” (Dresden, Germany)

2005Co-​Organiser of the “FEBS Course on Advanced Light Micro­scopy and 5th Inter­na­tional ELMI Meet­ing” (Sem­mer­ing, Austria)

2007Gatan European GIF School 2007 (Graz, Austria)

2010Organ­iser of the “BioEM Core Facil­it­ies Meet­ing” (Vienna, Austria)

2010Speaker at the "International Workshop of 3D Molecular Imaging by Cryo-Electron Microscopy" (Beijing, China)

2013FEI Tecnai (F)20 Alliance Training (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

2015Co-organ­iser of the “Advanced Course on Cryo-Electron Tomography” (Vienna, Austria)

2017Co-organ­iser of the “Advanced Workshop on Cryo-Electron Tomography” (Vienna, Austria)

2019Co-organ­iser of the “Advanced Workshop on Cryo-Electron Tomography” (Vienna, Austria)

2022Co-organ­iser of the “Advanced Workshop on Cryo-Electron Tomography” (Vienna, Austria)

2025Speaker at the “Atelier de L'INSERM 283: Cryo-Electron Tomography - Bridging Scales in Biology” (Bordeaux, France)

2026Instructor at the “Winter School on Electron Crystallography” (Juelich, Germany)

2026Organiser of the SerialEM Community Meeting "Technical Innovations Using SerialEM" (Krainerhuettel, Austria)