1994 – 2002
Medical studies at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck

12/1999 – 12/2002
Dissertation: UW, HTK vs. St. Thomas solution in prolonged cold ischemia in a heart transplantation model: analyses of enzyme activity and organ function

04/2001
Advanced training course: Animal experimentation with consideration of replacement and refinement methods in theory and practice at the Medical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck

2003 – 2009
Assistant physician at the University Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery in Innsbruck

01/2010 – 2013
Assistant physician in pediatric surgery at the University Clinic of Innsbruck, completed with board certification in pediatric surgery

07/2000
Socrates Intensive Programme “Cellular Energy Channels” at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France

12/2002 – 05/2003
Advanced training in organ transplantation: ESOT training courses in Cambridge (UK) and Paris (France)

04/2006
Intensive training “High MIC” in minimally invasive surgery at the Department of Surgery, Regional Hospital Bregenz

2006/07
Dissection course (Module 2.01) “Structure and function of the human body”; supervision and examination of 7 tables with 8 students each
Special anatomy: systematics and function of the vascular system
Special anatomy: sectional anatomy
Anatomical fundamentals of imaging techniques

2007
Surgical internship

01/2008
MCI endoscopy internship, Module IV – Learning Center

06/2003
Wilhelm Auerwald Award “Best Dissertation at a Medical Faculty 2002”