Short Bio/CV
Education/Training
University of Vienna, MD 1990
Harvard University, MSc 2005
Semmelweis University, PhD, 2017
Professional Experience
Residency and Fellowship Training:
1991-1993, 95-96 Medical Resident & Fellow, Univ of Vienna, Austria
1993-1995 Research Fellow in Nephrology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Academic
Appointments:
1996-1999 Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria 2003-2005 MSc in
Statistics & Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard, MA, USA
2010 Professor of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna Clinical Position:
2006-2016 Director, Dept of Internal Medicine III, Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation KH
Elisabethinen, Linz
2014–present Director, Div of Nephrology & Dialysis, Dept of Internal Medicine III, Medical
University of Vienna, Austria
Recent competitive public research funding
EU-H2020 SC1-2019: 848011 – DC-ren (2020-2025) PI & Steering Committee EU-H2020 IMI
115974— BEAt-DKD (2017-2021) PI & Steering Committee EU-FP7 241544 Syskid (2010-2016) PI
& Steering Committee WWTF LS 18-031 TRex (2019-2021) PI
WWTF LS 16-019 Polimorph (2017-2019), PI
Memberships
ESOT (past chair: EKITA) www.esot.org/OrganizationChart/EKITA.aspx
EDTA (DESCARTES) www.era-edta.org/descartes/descartes_members.htm
ASN (FASN) www.asn-online.org
Editorial Board Member
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (past member)
Transplant Int (Co-EIC)
Nephrol Dial Transplant (AE)
Reviewer for many international top journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine, BMJ, JAMA,
NEJM
Member of NIH/ NIAID Study Sections
Principal Investigator of several international multicenter trials Publications and further
Information - www.meduniwien.ac.at/nephrologie