| 2021 | Habilitation ("venia legendi") |
| 2013 -curr | Senior Scientist, Dept. of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Graz, |
| 2011 -2013 | Postdoc, Baylor College of Medicine, Dept. of Mol. and Cell. Biology, Houston, TX, USA |
| 2005 -2008 | part-time Postdoc, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria |
| 2002 -2005 | PhD, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria |
| 2000 -2001 | Master’s thesis, Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco (USCF), USA |
| 1995 -2000 | Molecular biology at the Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria |
| 2020 | Wewalka Preis der OEGGH |
| 2016 | Invited talk at the Keystone Autophagy Conference |
| 2015 | UEG poster Champ and travel grant award at the UEGW, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2013 | AACR Millenium award, Galveston, TX, USA |
| 2005 | Sanofi – Aventis prize from the Medical University Graz, Austria |
| 2004 | Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) for the best abstract submitted, Boston, USA |
| 2004 | Poster prize at the ÖGGGT conference in Graz, Austria |