Research Interest

  • Developing and applying single molecule spectroscopy and imaging methods for the in vivo analysis of plasma membrane proteins and lipids.
  • Understanding the functional role of plasma membrane nanostructures.
  • Molecular mechanism of early T cell signaling.

Scientific and Professional Background

 

  • Since  2011
    Full Professor at the Institute of Applied Physics, TU Wien
  • 2004 - 2011
    Associate Professor at the Biophysics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz
  • 2004
    Venia Docendi (Habilitation) in Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz
  • 2001 - 2004
    University Assistant at the Biophysics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz
  • 1997 - 2001
    Postdoctoral fellow at the Biophysics Institute, Johannes Kepler University Linz
  • 1997
    PhD with “Single Molecule Optical Microscopy: Applications to Biosystems”
  • 1995
    Master Degree “Studies of the dynamics of single membrane constituents using fluorescence microscopy"
  • 1988 - 1995
    Study of Technical Physics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz

Honors

  • Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Award, 2001
  • Upper-Austrian Award for Young Scientists, 2003
  • START-Award, 2004

Memberships

  • Junge Kurie of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGMBT): board member
  • Austrian Biophysical Society (ÖBG): vice president (2010-2013); president (2013-2015)
  • Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG)
  • American Biophysical Society
  • BIOINTERFACE network at TU Wien