Education:
- 1997-2004: University of Vienna: Microbiology/Genetics
- September 2002: Lambda - Laboratory for DNA analysis, Freistadt
- September/October 2003: Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
- 2004: Diploma thesis at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Institute of Applied Microbiology: "Surface Modification of Baculoviruses for improved transduction efficiency of mammalia cells"
- January 2005: Graduation
- March 2005 to date: PhD thesis at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Institute of Applied Microbiology: "Generation of Influenza A Virus like particles in insect cells"
- January 2006- June 2006: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA: "Generation of synthetic genes of Influenza A - Production of synthetic influenza VLPs"