Scientific Career

since 10/2021
Professorship for Biomolecular and Integrative Physiology at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna

since 05/2020
deputy head of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

seit 08/2018
Senior Scientist of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

seit 04/2018
Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Taste Research

2017
Visiting research scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, USA

11/2015 - 07/2018
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Nutritional and Physiological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

11/2014 - 10/2015
Postdoctoral stay at Symrise AG, Holzminden, Germany

07/2014 - 10/2014
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Bioactive Aroma Compounds, Department of Nutritional and Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

06/2014
Dr. rer. nat. (with distinction) in Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
Doctoral thesis: „Impact of (pungent) aroma compounds on mechanisms regulating satiety“ at the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Bioactive Aroma Compounds

2009 - 2014
Doctoral student (prae-doc) at the University of Vienna, Austria

2004 - 2009
Diploma Studies of Nutritional Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Diploma thesis: "Toxin production of food-relevant Burkholderia"   at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans-Knöll-Institute, Jena, Germany

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