2005
Doctorate at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, awarded the degree Dr. med. univ., with the dissertation entitled: “Long-term outcomes and critical analysis of complications after pancreas transplantation using new immunosuppressive protocols” at the University Clinic for General and Transplant Surgery, Innsbruck

Since 10/2025
Senior Consultant (Attending Surgeon), University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck

10/2023 – 09/2025
Senior Consultant, Clinical Division of General, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery, Graz (Head of Transplant Surgery)

10/2021
Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (FEBS) in Hepatobiliary Surgery

02/2020 – 09/2023
Senior Consultant, University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck

10/2019
Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (FEBS) in Transplant Surgery

09/2019 – 01/2020
Senior Consultant, University Clinic for Transplant Surgery, Rikshospitalet, University of Oslo, Norway

2017
Additional specialization in Visceral Surgery

2014
Senior physician

2013
Habilitation (venia docendi) in surgery (habilitation thesis: “Clinical and morphological findings in the field of pancreas transplantation”)

2012
Specialst in General Surgery

2005 – 2011
Assistant Physician, University Clinic for Visceral, Transplantation, and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck

Oncologic visceral surgery

Hepatobiliary surgery

Transplant surgery

Austrian Society of Surgical Oncology (ACO ASSO)

Austrian Society of Surgery (ÖGC)

Austrian Society for Transplantation, Transfusion and Genetics (Austrotransplant)

European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

American Society of Transplantation (AST/ASTS)

European-African Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (E-AHPBA)

ISI Web of Science-listed works
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2013
Theodor Billroth Prize (co-author)

2010
International Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress, American Society of Transplantation und American Society of Transplant Surgeons

2005 und 2011
Austrotransplant Poster Prize

Surgical oncology: liver metastases in colorectal cancer

Hepatobiliary surgery

Transplant oncology: liver transplantation for oncologic indications

Pancreas transplantation