June 1998 - June 2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. S.J. Danishefsky, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York City.

October 1997 Ph.D. (“Summa Cum Laude”). University of Vienna, Austria.

October 1996 - September 1997 Graduate research with Prof. J. Mulzer at the University of Vienna, Austria. Employment as Universitätsassistent.

October 1995 - September 1996 Graduate research with Prof. J. Mulzer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Employment as “Universitätsassistent”.

February 1995 Diplom (“Mit Auszeichnung”), Free University Berlin, Germany.

January 1994 - September 1995 Undergraduate research ("Diplomarbeit") and graduate research in Prof. Mulzer's group at the Free University Berlin, Germany. Employment as “Universitätsassistent”.

January 1992 - September 1995 Studied chemistry at the Free University Berlin, Germany.

October 1988 - October 1991 Studied biochemistry at the University of Vienna, Austria.

October 1986 - October 1988 Studied biology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

2023 - Eun Lee Lecturer, Seoul National University, Korea.

2023-2027 - Honorary Skou Professor, Aarhus University

2021 - Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award  

2020 - McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award

2020 - Astellas Lecture, University of Tokyo, Japan

2019 - Ralph and Lucy Hirschmann Visiting Professor, U. of Pennsylvania

2019 - Adolf Lieben Lectureship of the Austrian Chemical Society

2017 - Member, Leopoldina - German Academy of Sciences

2016 - Otto Bayer Award

2016 - Emil-Fischer-Medal of the German Chemical Society

2015-2016 - George Büchi Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2014-2015 - Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professor, University of Chicago

2014-2015 - Novartis Chemistry Lectureship

2013 - Kitasato Microbial Chemistry Medal

2012 - Beijing University Shenzhen Graduate School Lectureship

2012 - Nankai University Lectureship

2011 - Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

2011 - Hofmann Lecture, Imperial College, London

2011- European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant

2010 - Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship

2010 - Andy Derome Lecturer, University of Oxford

2010 - Givaudan/Karrer Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Zurich

2008 - Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award

2007 - Schulich Lecturer, Technion, Israel

2004 - 2006 - Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Fellow

2005 - Novartis Young Investigator Award

2004 - Amgen Young Investigator Award

2004 - AstraZeneca Young Investigator Award

Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics

Deparmtent of Chemistry, Penn Arts & Sceinces 

2004 - Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

2003 - NSF Career Award

2003 - GlaxoSmithKline Chemistry Scholar Award

2003 - Eli Lilly Grantee Award

2003 - NARSAD Young Investigator Award

2002 - Hellman Family Faculty Award, UC Berkeley

1998 - 2000 -Schering Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

1997 - Austrian Chemical Society Award (best thesis of the year 1997)