Scientific Career

Head of the Department of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna
University Professor of Physiological Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna

since 2014
Scientific Director of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbrücke and Chair of the Department of Molecular Toxicology, DIfE/University of Potsdam, Germany

2010 – 2014
Chair of the Department of Nutritional Toxicology in the Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

2006 – 2010
Chair of the Department of Biofunctionality and Safety of Food in the Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

2003 – 2006
Head of the Free Radical Research Laboratory, Research Institute of Environmental Health, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany

2000 – 2003
Head of the Free Radical Research Division of the Neuroscience Research Centre of the Medical Faculty (Charité), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

1994 – 2000
Head of the research division of the Clinics of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Medical Faculty (Charité), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

1993 – 1994
Post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Albany Medical College, Albany NY, USA

1992 – 1993
Research assistant at the Research Institute of Molecular Pharmacology Berlin, Germany

1987 – 1992
Research assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Medical Faculty (Charité), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Education:

2013
Dr. h.c. University of Buenos Aires

1998
Habilitation (Lecturer of Biochemistry): Secondary antioxidative defense systems in mammalian cells – the removal of oxidation products as demonstrated by the degradation of the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynonenal and the removal of oxidatively modified proteins

1993 – 1994
DFG research fellowship

1992
Graduation (MD): Nucleotide degradation and free radical damage during ischemia and reperfusion of the rat small intestine

Most important academic prizes/awards received

• 2019  SFRR (Europe) Basic Science Award
• 2013  Dr. h.c. University of Buenos Aires
• 2004  Catherine Pasquier Award / SFRR (Europe)
• 2003  René-Schubert-Award of Aging Research
• 2003  Skin Aging Research Award
• 2003  Paul Gersson Unna Award