2010
Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med. univ.), Medical University of Innsbruck, Q201

03/2023
Habilitation in the field of “General and Visceral Surgery” at the Medical University of Innsbruck

2010 – 2011
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biological Chemistry, Biozentrum, Medical University of Innsbruck

since 2011
Surgical resident at the University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck

06/2018
Surgical specialist at the University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck

10/2018
Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (FEBS), Transplant Surgery

since 01/2024
Organization Manager at the University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck

2010
20^th specialist course “Animal experimentation taking into account complementary and alternative methods in theory and practice” at the Central Laboratory Animal Facility of the Medical University of Innsbruck

2012
Participation in the “Walter Brendel College for Transplantation”

2015
Participation in “The Hesperis Course by ESOT”

09/2016
Basic Course on Liver Transplantation by ESOT (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

01/2017
12^th European Donor Surgery Masterclass, 10^th Basic Course on the Split Liver by ESOT (Leiden, Netherlands)

Surgical internship

Suturing and knot tying course

Problem-based learning, POL

KPJ supervision

Transplant surgery

Hepatobiliary surgery

Pathogenesis of ischemia-reperfusion injury based on mouse transplantation models

Role of NO synthases in ischemia-reperfusion injury

Pteridines as a therapeutic option in the prevention of early organ loss

Austrian Society for Surgery (ÖGC)

Austrian Society for Surgical Oncology (ACO-ASSO)

European Society for Surgical Oncology

European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

Austrian Society for Transplantation, Transfusion, and Genetics

PubMed listed works
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Co-author of “8^th Edition of the Guide to the Quality and Safety of Organs for Transplantation”
Reference book, European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare

2007
Merit-based scholarship from the Autonomous Province of Bolzano

2010
Austrotransplant 2010, Poster Award (co-author)

2011
1^st joint meeting AIDPIT/EPITA, Posterpreis (Co-Autor)

2011
American Transplantation Congress, poster award (co-author)

2011
Wilhelm Auerswald Award for the best written doctoral thesis

2013
Travel grant for the “3^rd ESOT Basic Science Meeting / 13^th TTS Basic Science Symposium” in Paris, France, from November 7 to 9, 2013

2014
Travel grant from the Austrian Society for Surgical Research, Gosau

2016
Lecture award “Live confocal imaging of murine liver biopsies as a novel tool to assess graft quality prior to transplantation” 40^th Seminar of the Austrian Society for Surgical Research, November 17-19, 2016, Schladming

2018
Young Surgeons Forum Award 2018 for the presentations: “Live confocal imaging of murine liver biopsies as a novel tool to assess graft quality prior to transplantation” 59th Austrian Surgeons Congress, June 6-8, 2018, Vienna

2019
Young Surgeons Forum 3^rd Prize 2019 for the presentation “Non-Operative Management of Blunt Hepatic and Splenic Injury: A Time-trend and Outcome Analysis over a Period of 17 Years,” 60^th Austrian Surgeons Congress, June 19-21, 2019, Innsbruck

2020
Young Surgeons Forum 1^st Prize 2020 for the presentation “Live confocal imaging of human liver biopsies as a novel tool to assess graft quality prior to transplantation in a clinical setting,” 61st Austrian Surgeons Congress, October 16-18, 2020, Vienna

2021
OEGCH Science Award 1^st prize 2021 for the paper: “Static cold storage compared to normothermic machine perfusion of the liver and effect on ischemic-type biliary lesions after transplantation: a propensity score matched study,” 62^nd Austrian Surgeons’ Congress, Salzburg

2021
Young Surgeons Forum 2^nd prize 2021 for the presentation: “Immune cell profiling during normothermic machine perfusion of human liver allografts,” 62^nd Austrian Surgeons Congress, Salzburg

2022
Hans-Werner Waclawiczek Prize 2022 for the work: “Hyperspectral imaging as a novel analysis tool during normothermic machine perfusion of the liver: Implications for organ viability/quality testing and outcome in liver transplantation,” 63rd Austrian Surgeons’ Congress, Graz

2022
Theodor-Billiroth-Preis 2023 für die Arbeit: „Immune cell dynamics deconvoluted by single-1 cell RNA sequencing in normothermic machine perfusion of the liver“, 64. Österreichischer Chirurgenkongress, Salzburg

2023
Biotest Prize 2023 for the work: “Immune cell dynamics deconvoluted by single-cell RNA sequencing in normothermic machine perfusion of the liver,” Austrotransplant Annual Conference 2023, Eisenstadt