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Scientific Expertise

Curr. Vitae

2021 Faculty Member of the PhD Program Molecular Medicine, Medical University of Graz
2021 -2024 Member of the Executive Committee - Research Field "Metabolism and Circulation"
2016 -2022 Associated Member of the Doctorate College "Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases" (DK-MCD)
2015 Associate Professor
2013 Tenure Track
2011 Habilitation in Physiology
2007 PostDoc, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz
2006 -2007 PostDoc (Research Associate), University Medicine Göttingen
2005 -2006 Assistent of Physiology, Institute of Physiology, Medical Faculty, Maribor
2004 -2005 PostDoc, European Neuroscience Institute-Göttingen
2000 -2004 PhD Thesis, European Neuroscience Institute-Göttingen and Medical University of Ljubljana
1999 Diploma Thesis (Dipl. Biol.), Medical University of Ljubljana

Awards

2022 Richard Pacher Award - ÖKG, DGK and SSC (to Mahmoud Abdellatif); senior author
2021 Best Abstract Award; Austrian Society of Cardiology Annual Meeting 2021 (senior author)
2020 ESC Heart Failure Winter Meeting Guido Tarone Award (to Mahmoud Abdellatif); Senior Author
2019 BioTechMed Lab Rotation Program (Mentor)
2019 Best Abstract Award; Austrian Society of Cardiology Annual Meeting 2019 (senior author)
2018 1st Award Thomé Villar/Boehringer Ingelheim, Portuguese Society of Pulmonology (to Rui Adao); Senior Author
2017 Österreichischer Kardiologenpreis - Basic Science (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kardiologie)
2017 Sanofi Aventis Forschungspreis (to Mahmoud Abdellatif); Senior Author
2017 Rudolf Pacher Award for Heart Failure (to Tobias Eisenberg); Senior author
2015 Sanofi Aventis Forschungspreis (to Senka Ljubojevic); Co-Author
2013 Sanofi Aventis Forschungspreis (to Felix Hohendanner); Co-Author
2012 Travel Grant 2012-ESC Heart Failure Congress in Belgrade (Serbia),ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science
2011 Startförderung MUG
2010 Finalist "State of the Art and Featured Research Session on Heart Failure" at the ESC Congress 2010; August 30, 2010 – Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Bank Austria Visiting Scientist Program
2010 Travel Award 2010- ESC Congress 2010 in Stockholm (Sweden), ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

2020 -2022 Global Alumni and Associates Network, Universität Ljubljana, Slowenien
Nucleus Mitglied
2017 -2020 Amerikanische-Slowenische Bildung Stiftung
Mitglied
2017 -2020 Slowenische Gesellschaft für Physiologie
Mitglied
2016 -2020 Österreichische Geselschaft für Physiologie
Mitglied
2012 -2020 Heart Failure Association/ European Society of Cardiology
Mitglied
2009 -2020 Österreichische Kardiologische Gesellschaft
Mitglied
2011 -2015 Österreichische biophysikalische Gesellschaft (ÖBG)
Mitglied
2010 -2015 Gesellschaft für Biophysik
Mitglied
2006 -2009 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie
Mitglied

Reviewer for scientific journals

2021 -2023 CIRCULATION RESEARCH
2023 -2023 JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY
2023 -2023 MED
2021 -2022 ATHEROSCLEROSIS
2022 -2022 AUTOPHAGY
2022 -2022 CIRCULATION
2022 -2022 PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH
2022 -2022 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2018 -2021 THERANOSTICS
2021 -2021 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
2021 -2021 CELL DEATH & DISEASE
2021 -2021 FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
2021 -2021 FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
2021 -2021 JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY
2021 -2021 MICROBIOME
2020 -2020 JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
2020 -2020 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2019 -2019 AGING AND DISEASE
2019 -2019 REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
2018 -2018 JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
2017 -2017 CLINICAL NUTRITION
2014 -2014 PLOS ONE
2011 -2011 ADVAN EXPERIMENT MED BIOL
2006 -2008 THE JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY

Reviewer/Expert funding organizations

2023 -2023 Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) - France
2022 -2022 Medical Research Council (MRC) - United Kingdom
2021 -2021 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) - International Organization
2020 -2020 European Commission ERC Consolidator - Belgium
2019 -2019 Österreichischer Herzfonds - Austria
2011 -2011 Hans und Blanca Moser-Stiftung - Austria

Reviewer/Expert organization

2021 Charité Berlin; PhD thesis examining committee
2020 KU Leuven and University of Maastricht; PhD thesis examining committee
2020 Charité Berlin; PhD thesis examining committee
2017 External Advisory Board Cardiovascular Research and Development Center (UnIC) - 2015/2016, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto
2015 External Advisory Board Cardiovascular Research and Development Center (UnIC) - 2013/2014, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto
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