Career
2021
European Civic Prize on Chronic Pain (Innovation)
2021
Prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia (runner- up)
European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology
2020
ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant
2019
WWTF Grant
2018
2018- now
Institute of Biological Chemistry
University of Vienna, Austria
Research Group Leader, Associate Professor
EFMC Prize for Young Medicinal Chemist (runner-up)
European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry
2017
ERC Starting Grant
2016
Miklos Bodanszky Award
for peptide-based drug research
European Peptide Society
2016- now
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
IMB Industry Fellow, Lecturer, Associate Professor
2016
IMB Industry Fellow Award
Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Brisbane, Australia
2015- 2018
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
ARC DECRA Fellow– Research Team Leader
2014
Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2013- 2015
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
Marie Curie Fellow (Albericio Lab)
2012
Scripps Research Institute Travel Award
EPS Travel Award
2011- 2013
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
Marie Curie Fellow (Dawson Lab)
2009
Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Best PhD Thesis Award from 2008 and 2009
Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Australia
Protein Science Young Investigator Award
European Protein Society
2009- 2011
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane, Australia
Research Officer (Alewood Lab)
2008
Bentham Young Investigator Award
20th Int. Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Austria
2007
Alchemia’s Young Investigator Award
Drug Discovery & Development Conference, Australia
2006
Dr. Bert L. Schram Young Investigator’s Award
29th EPS, Gdansk, Poland
2005- 2009
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
PhD in Biological and Medicinal Chemistry
2003- 2004
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Master Thesis in Applied Synthetic Methodologies
2004
MSc conferred ‘with high distinction’
Student Award of Excellence
2002- 2003
City College of New York, USA
Specialisation in Organic Synthesis
2001
BSc conferred ‘with distinction’
Student Award of Excellence
2001- 2004
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
MSc in Organic Chemistry and Technology
1998- 2001
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
BSc in Technical Chemistry
2023
Tregear Award
for outstanding research in the field of peptide chemistry and biology and underpinning technologies
2023
Institute for Biomedical Research Barcelona Alumin Excellence Award
2023
ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant
2024
Evotec Award for Molecular Design
2025
ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant
2025
Promotion to Professor at University of Vienna