Academic career

Since 09/2023 Professor and Head of the Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Hohenheim, Germany

10/2021 – 03/2025
Professor of Biomolecular and Integrative Physiology at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

2022: Habilitation in biomolecular chemistry

May 2020 – September 2024
Deputy Director of the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

August 2018 – September 2023
Senior Scientist at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

04/2018 – 03/ 2025
Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Taste Research, University of Vienna, Austria

2017
Visiting Scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, USA

11/2015 - 07/2018
University assistant (post-doc) at the Institute of Nutritional Physiology and Physiological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

11/2014 - 10/2015
Post-doc at Symrise AG, Holzminden, Germany

07/2014 - 10/2014
University assistant (post-doc) at the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Bioactive Aromatic Compounds, Institute of Nutritional Physiology and Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

06/2014
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna
2009 - 2014
Assistant (pre-doc) at the University of Vienna, Austria

2004 - 2009
Diploma program in Nutritional Sciences at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
2008-2009: Diploma thesis: at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology e.V. - Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany