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Since 01/2026Associate Professor in Computational and Experimental Neuroscience at TU Graz
04/2021 – 12/2025Assistant Professor at TU Graz, Austria
06/2025 Title of Venia Docendi for my habilitation thesis, titled ”Modeling neuron-
astrocyte interaction”.
09/2018 – 02/2021Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Dr. Jari Hyttinen’s lab at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; Simulations of neuron-astrocyte networks and single cell astrocytes, work also includes in vitro experiments
07/2018 – 08/2018Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Neuroscience at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) in Prof. Dr. Jari Hyttinen’s lab at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
12/2016 – 06/2018Postdoctoral Researcher in bioinformatics in Dr. Volker Busskamp’s lab at DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Development of a pipeline for RNA-Seq data
01/2014 – 10/2014Guest researcher in Prof. Dr. Werner Hemmert’s lab at IMETUM, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; Analysis and simulation of neuronal networks in 2D and 3D (paid by TUT)
03/2013 – 12/2016Project Researcher in the EU project „3DNeuroN | Biomimiking the Brain – towards 3D Neuronal Network Dynamics” and Tekes funded project “Human Spare Parts 2” (Vice-PI of the Computational Biophysics and Imaging Group led by Prof. Jari Hyttinen, PhD) at TUT; Simulations and analysis of neuron-astrocyte networks
09/2009 – 02/2013Research associate mainly in the project “Intelligent Analysis of Neurochip Data” in Prof. Dr. Barbara Priwitzer’s lab at Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, Senftenberg, Germany; Methods for fitting concentration-response curves and simulation of neuronal networks

Funding

2024 – 2027 FWF Austrian Science Fund (decision no. PIN 7030123) – 221,942 Euros
2018 – 2021 Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher (decision no. 314647) – 284,460 Euros
Four times initial funding program, between 9,000 and 12,000 Euros