| 1995-2001: | Studies in Microbiology at the University of Graz |
| 1999: | semester at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2000-2001: | master thesis on mRNA stability in yeast, in the group of Gregor Högenauer |
| 2001-2005: | PhD thesis in the group of Gregor Högenauer and Helmut Bergler, Institute for Molecular Biosciences Graz. 2004: ÖGGGT Research Prize for Young Scientists, awarded by the Austrian Society for Genetics and Gene Technology (ÖGGGT). |
| 2005-2009: | Postdoc in the group of Ed Hurt, Biochemiezentrum Heidelberg with an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship Abroad, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). |
| 2009-2012: | project leader of a Hertha Firnberg Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Graz, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) |
| since 09/2011: | project leader of an FWF-Stand-Alone project on late steps of 40S maturation |
| since 04/2012: | project leader of an FWF-Stand-Alone project on ribosomal protein assembly |
| since 02/2013: | project leader of an Elise Richter Fellowship (FWF) |
