Career
| Since August 2024 | Senior Attending Physician, Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, USZ |
| 2022-2024 | Senior Attending Physician, deputy. Chief Physician, Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital |
| 2019-2022 | Senior Consultant, Head of the Lung Transplant Program, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Freiburg University Medical Center |
| 2019 | Fellow of the European Board of Thoracic Surgery |
| 2016 | Habilitation in thoracic surgery at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| 2015 | Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons / UK |
| 2014-2019 | Consultant Thoracic and Transplant Surgeon, Lead Surgeon of Lung Transplantation, NHS Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, UK |
| 2009-2014 | Section Head of Thoracic Surgery, Head of Lung Transplantation, Mainz University Medical Center |
| 2004-2009 | Attending physician, Department of HTG Surgery, LKH Klagenfurt |
| 2008 | Specialist in thoracic surgery |
| 2004 | Specialist for heart surgery |
| 2001 | Specialist for general surgery |
| 1994 | Doctorate in medicine / University of Vienna |
Memberships
- German Society for Thoracic, Cardiovascular Surgery (DGTHG)
- German Society for Thoracic Surgery
- Austrian Society for Surgery
- European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
- European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS)
- Austrian Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
Research focus
- Lung transplantation
- Organ perfusion
- Surgical treatment of pulmonary emphysema
Further
Thoracic Surgery Research Fellowship of the DGTHG, February 2011; Stuttgart
“Isolated lung perfusion in rabbits to improve organ preservation during lung transplantation”