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Curr. Vitae

2021 Associate Professor for Translational Mycology, Division Of Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Graz, Austria
2014 -2018 Abschluss einer Qualifizierungsvereibarung
2012 Habilitation Internal Medicine
2008 Promotion to Dr.med.univ.

Awards

2023 Creating Possible Award
2018 ID Week Diagnostic Award; Infectious Diseases Society of America
2018 Dr. Ira F. Salkin Memorial Award, Medical Mycology & ISHAM (shared first and corresponding author)
2018 Nachwuchsförderpreis der DMykG 2018 (Senior-Author)
2018 HIV NEUROBEHAVIORAL RESEARCH CENTER Pilot Grant Recipient. Project: "Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and (1-3)-b-D-Glucan as cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for neurocognitive functioning in HIV infected adults."
2018 Posterpreis der OEGMM/DMYKg (Co-Author)
2018 CFAR (Center for AIDS Research) Developmental Grant Recipient. Project "Standardized Oral Beta-D Glucan Challenge for Measuring Microbial Translocation in HIV Infection"
2018 NIH R21 Recipient. Principal Investigator. Project: "Perception of Repeated Negative HIV Test Results in Young Men who have Sex with Men"
2017 Young Investigator Scholarship CROI 2017 (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Seattle, USA); International Antiviral Society–USA
2016 IDWeek Trainee Award, New Orleans, USA Senior Author
2016 Young Investigator Scholarship CROI 2016 (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Boston, USA); International Antiviral Society–USA
2016 CFAR (Center for AIDS Research) Developmental Grant Recipient. Project "Consequences of risky decision making in the era of PrEP"
2016 Publikationspreis der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Mykologie (ÖGMM) Senior Author
2016 TMARC (Translational Methamphetamine AIDS Research Center) Pilot Grant Recipient. Projec "Linkage to PrEP among Men who have sex with Men using Methamphetamine"
2016 Fellow of the European Confederation of Medical mycology (FECMM)
2015 Young Investigator Scholarship CROI 2015 (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Seattle, USA); International Antiviral Society–USA
2015 Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroAIDS; HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program, University of California, San Diego
2015 1. Preis für das beste wissenschaftliche Poster, 9. Österreichischen Infektionskongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Infektionskrankheiten und Tropenmedizin (Co-author)
2014 Posterpreis bei der Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Antimykotische Chemotherapie der Paul Ehrlich Gesellschaft in Bonn (Senior Author)
2014 Forschungsförderungspreis der Deutschsprachigen Mykologischen Gesellschaft (DMYKg) 2014
2014 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing 2013: Journal of Infection
2014 Max Kade Stipendiate; Max Kade Foundation New York
2014 Advances Against Aspergillosis ALLFUN Scholarship
2014 Poster Award at the 6th Advances Against Aspergillosis Conference in Madrid ("Posaconazole plasma concentrations: correlation of early trough levels (day 4) with steady-state concentrations")
2014 1. Preis für das beste wissenschaftliche Poster, 8. Österreichischen Infektionskongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Infektionskrankheiten und Tropenmedizin (PCT fails to predict bacteremia in SIRS patients; Senior author)
2013 Best Oral Abstract Presentation (2.Platz), Österr. Infektionskongress (Senior author)
2013 ECCMID Travel Grant, Berlin
2013 George McCracken Infectious Diseases Fellow Award, The American Society for Microbiology (ASM); Denver, USA;
2012 First Poster Prize at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (Senior author)
2012 ISHAM Travel Grant der ÖGMM, Berlin
2012 ASM Post Doctoral Fellow Grant, American Society for Microbiology; San Francisco, USA
2012 ECCMID Travel Grant, London
2012 Poster Preis (2.Platz), Österr. Infektionskonkress (Senior Author)
2012 Best Oral Abstract Presentation (3.Platz), Österr. Infektionskongress
2011 Merck Investigator Studies Program (MISP)
2011 MYK Reisestipendium, Vienna
2011 Forscher des Jahres 2011 der Medizinischen Universität Graz
2011 Chosen by selection committee to attend EFIM Seminar on Clinical Research, Paris.
2010 MYK Reisestipendium 2010, Vienna
2010 ICAAC Infectious Disease Fellow Grant, American Society for Microbiology (ASM); Boston, USA
2010 Hygiene-Fonds Nachwuchsförderung
2010 Nominierung Clinical Grand Rounds des ECCMID, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
2009 George McCracken Infectious Diseases Fellow Award, The American Society for Microbiology (ASM); San Francisco, USA
2008 Posterpreis, Österr. Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

2023 -2025 Mycoses Study Group (MSG-ERC)
Member of the Scientific Committee
2017 -2023 European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
President
2015 -2023 European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
Council - Delegate of Austria
2018 -2022 European Hematology Association (EHA) Scientific Working Group on Infections in Hematology
Vice-President; Founding Member of SWG
2017 -2021 ACTG AIDS Clinical Trials Group - End-organ Disease and Inflammation Transformative Science Group
Study Group Member (Investigator)
2014 -2018 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Medizinische Mykologie (ÖGMM)
Vizepräsident
2016 -2017 Committee of the Academy of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM)
Chair
2013 -2017 EFISG
Aktives Mitglied
2014 -2016 Amerikanische Gesellschaft für Mikrobiologie (ASM)
ASM Young Ambassador
2013 -2014 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Medizinische Mykologie (ÖGMM)
Schriftführer/Vorstandsmitglied

Editorial board appointments for scientific journals

2023 -2024 OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Associate Editor
2015 -2024 MYCOSES: Deputy Editor
2022 -2023 MYCOPATHOLOGIA: Deputy Editor
2021 -2023 OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Editorial Advisory Board
2018 -2021 FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY: Guest Associate Editor
2020 -2020 JOURNAL OF FUNGI: Guest Editor
2017 -2019 FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY: Guest Associate Editor
2018 -2018 BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Associate Editor
2013 -2014 MEDIATORS OF INFLAMMATION: Associate Editor of a Special Issue

Reviewer for scientific journals

2011 -2023 JOURNAL OF INFECTION
2014 -2023 JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY
2016 -2023 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
2016 -2023 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY
2017 -2023 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS
2022 -2023 PLOS PATHOGENS.
2023 -2023 APMIS
2023 -2023 APMIS
2023 -2023 CHEST
2023 -2023 JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2023 -2023 THORAX
2015 -2022 EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
2015 -2022 JOURNAL OF FUNGI
2017 -2022 CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
2018 -2022 CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2018 -2022 JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
2019 -2022 THE LANCET. INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
2020 -2022 OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2021 -2022 CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS
2021 -2022 EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2022 -2022 DRUGS
2022 -2022 EXPERT OPINION ON DRUG DISCOVERY
2022 -2022 INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE
2022 -2022 THE LANCET HAEMATOLOGY
2022 -2022 THE LANCET RESPIRATORY MEDICINE.
2012 -2021 MYCOSES
2013 -2021 FOLIA MICROBIOLOGICA
2015 -2021 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
2015 -2021 TRANSPLANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE
2016 -2021 EXPERT REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
2018 -2021 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2021 -2021 AIDS (LONDON, ENGLAND)
2021 -2021 MBIO
2021 -2021 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
2021 -2021 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
2014 -2020 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
2015 -2020 JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES
2016 -2020 MYCOPATHOLOGIA
2016 -2020 PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
2017 -2020 FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
2017 -2020 JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY
2018 -2020 AIDS CARE
2019 -2020 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2012 -2019 INFECTION
2015 -2019 BMJ OPEN
2015 -2019 PLOS ONE
2017 -2019 SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2018 -2019 AIDS RESEARCH AND HUMAN RETROVIRUSES
2019 -2019 EXPERT OPINION ON PHARMACOTHERAPY
2019 -2019 GASTROENTEROLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
2019 -2019 INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THERAPY
2014 -2018 EXPERT REVIEW OF ANTI-INFECTIVE THERAPY
2015 -2018 COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
2015 -2018 FUTURE MICROBIOLOGY
2016 -2018 EXPERT REVIEW OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS
2016 -2018 SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2017 -2018 DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
2017 -2018 JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
2018 -2018 ANNALS OF MEDICINE
2018 -2018 BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
2018 -2018 CURRENT MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OPINION
2018 -2018 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH
2018 -2018 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
2018 -2018 MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY
2018 -2018 New Microbes and New Infections
2018 -2018 RESPIRATION
2018 -2018 VIRAL IMMUNOLOGY
2013 -2017 BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
2015 -2017 ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
2017 -2017 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
2017 -2017 BIOMEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
2017 -2017 CANADIAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
2017 -2017 JOURNAL DE MYCOLOGIE MÉDICALE
2017 -2017 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ECONOMICS
2017 -2017 JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY
2017 -2017 LANCET NEUROLOGY
2014 -2016 CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA
2014 -2016 CLINICAL CHEMISTRY AND LABORATORY MEDICINE
2015 -2016 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
2016 -2016 CULTURE, HEALTH & SEXUALITY
2016 -2016 CURRENT HIV RESEARCH
2016 -2016 DRUGS
2016 -2016 EUROSURVEILLANCE
2016 -2016 JOURNAL OF THORACIC DISEASE
2016 -2016 PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
2016 -2016 RESPIROLOGY
2016 -2016 RESPIROLOGY
2016 -2016 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
2016 -2016 SUBSTANCE USE & MISUSE
2016 -2016 THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
2014 -2015 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY
2015 -2015 BMJ CASE REPORTS
2015 -2015 Drug Design, Development and Therapy
2015 -2015 DRUG RESISTANCE UPDATES : REVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES IN ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTICANCER CHEMOTHERAPY
2015 -2015 EXPERT OPINION ON ORPHAN DRUGS
2015 -2015 EXPERT REVIEW OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
2015 -2015 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NANOMEDICINE
2015 -2015 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ECONOMICS
2015 -2015 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
2015 -2015 Journal of microbiology, immunology, and infection
2013 -2014 BIOMARKERS : BIOCHEMICAL INDICATORS OF EXPOSURE, RESPONSE, AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CHEMICALS
2013 -2014 CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
2014 -2014 EXPERT REVIEW OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
2014 -2014 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
2014 -2014 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL CASE REPORTS
2014 -2014 MEDIATORS OF INFLAMMATION
2014 -2014 SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF TRAUMA, RESUSCITATION AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE
2013 -2013 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH
2013 -2013 INFLUENZA AND OTHER RESPIRATORY VIRUSES
2013 -2013 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
2013 -2013 LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA
2013 -2013 WIENER MEDIZINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT
2012 -2012 AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY RESEARCH
2012 -2012 CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN
2012 -2012 EXPERT OPINION ON DRUG SAFETY
2012 -2012 PHARMACOLOGY
2010 -2010 CLINICAL NEPHROLOGY

Expert for appointment/habilitation procedures

2021 Habilitation: Gutachter: Medical University Vienna
2021 Habilitation: Gutachter: Medical University Vienna
2020 Berufung: Gutachter: University of Manchester
2017 Berufung: Gutachter: University of Exeter Personal Chair; Professor

Reviewer/Expert funding organizations

2023 -2023 Ministère de la Santé et la Prévention (PHRC-22-0258) - France
2022 -2022 Medical Research Council (MRC) - United Kingdom
2022 -2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - United States (USA)
2022 -2022 European Science Foundation (ESF) - Austria
2021 -2021 National Institute for Health Research - United Kingdom
2020 -2020 Wellcome trust/DBT India Alliance Fellowship - India
2019 -2019 Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine Research Foundation - Switzerland
2019 -2019 The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) - Netherlands
2019 -2019 Belgian Institute of Public Health (Sciensano) - Belgium
2019 -2019 European Science Foundation (ESF) - Austria
2018 -2018 British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy http://www.bsac.org.uk/about-the-bsac-funding-programme/ - International Organization
2014 -2016 Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank (ÖNB) - Österreich - Austria

Reviewer/Expert organization

2023 Innsbruck Medical University - PHD Thesis - External Reviewer
2022 KU Leuven - PHD Thesis - External Reviewer
2022 ECMM - Excellence Center Application - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Auditor
2021 ECCMID 2022 Abstract Reviewer Committee
2020 European Hematology Association (EHA) - COVID-19 grant cycle
2015 Government of Canada (Environment, Health Canada)

Organizer of scientific conferences, Chairs

2023 11th Trend in Medical Mycology (Athens, GRE)
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
2022 21st Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM; New Delhi, India)
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat/Beirätin
2021 EHA2021 Virtual Congress
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
2021 10th Trends in Medical Mycology (Aberdeen, UK)
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
2019 9th Trends in Medical Mycology (Nice, FRA)
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat/Beirätin
2018 MYK 2018 together with 52nd Annual Meeting of the DMykG (Innsbruck, AT)
Mitglied Organisationskomitee
2018 20th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM, Amsterdam, NL)
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat/Beirätin
2017 8th Trends in Medical Mycology (TIMM; Belgrad, SRB)
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat/Beirätin
2014 MYK 2014 together with 48th Annual Meeting of the DMykG (Salzburg, AT)
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat/Beirätin
2014 MYK 2014 together with 48th Annual Meeting of the DMykG (Salzburg, AT)
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat/Beirätin
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