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ORCID-ID:
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0000-0002-8189-3634
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Research areas:
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Ion channels, pulmonary circulation, live cell imaging, chronic lung diseases
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Career history:
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2021–present
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Member of Experts' Committe of the German Research Foundation (DFG) & German Council for Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)
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2017–2019
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Vice Rector for Medicine, Johannes Kepler University Linz
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2016–2017
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Chair of the Institute for Physiology, MUG
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2010–2017
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Director, Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria
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2006–present
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Full Professor of Experimental Anesthesiology, Medical University of Graz (Med Uni Graz), Austria
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2005
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Board certification in Pain Therapy
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2002–2005
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Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
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2002
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Habilitation in Anesthesiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
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2000–2002
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Postdoctoral Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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1999
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PhD thesis in Physiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen
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1999
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Board certification in Anesthesiology
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1993–1999
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Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
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1986–1992
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Study of Human Medicine, MD University of Debrecen, Ungarn
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Career-related activities (5 most important):
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2021–present
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Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the von Behring–Röntgen Foundation, Germany
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2009–2010
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Responsible for the International Accreditation and Quality Assurance of the PhD Program of the Med Uni Graz
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2009
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Chair of the Research Promotion Commission of the Med Uni Graz
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2008–2012
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Dean for Doctoral Studies, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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2002–2005
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Deputy Director for academic affairs, Department of Anesthesiology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen; Germany
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Invited referee for > 30 scientific journals and > 10 funding organizations
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Major honours and awards (5 most important):
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2009
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Manfred Specker Medaille Award of the German Society of Anesthesiologists for Mentoring
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2006
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Research Award of the Austrian Society of Pneumology
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2002
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Award of the Justus Liebig University of Gießen for the best Habilitation of the Year
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2001
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Cournand and Comroe Young Investigator Prize of the American Heart Association
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1999
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Fresenius Award of the German Society of Anesthesiologists
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Patents:
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2018
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TMEM16A: Modulation for diagnostic or therapeutic use in pulmonary hypertension (PH)
(Nr. PTT/EP17169063), patent sold to BAYER
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2017
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Biomarker for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (Nr. PCT/EP2017/055440,
pending in Europe, USA, Canada, Japan)
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International collaboration partners (5 most important):
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Nicholas Morrell, Univesity of Cambridge, UK
Peter Enyedi, Semmelweiss University, Budapest, Hungary
Wolfgang Kübler, Charité, Berlin, Germany
Andrea Meredith, University of Maryland, US
Walter Klepetko, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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