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Course of Studies:
· 09/94 - 09/99 Study of Technical Chemistry at the Graz University of Technology
· 09/99 - 06/01 Study of Physical Chemistry at the Graz University of Technology
Diploma thesis: "Spectroscopy and Colour Rendering of some Rare Earth Ions in Yttrium Aluminum Borate Single Crystals"
· 06/01 - 07/08 Employment at the Technical University of Graz as scientific assistant
· 10/01 - 07/06 PhD study at the Technical University of Graz
· 07/06 Passing of the Viva voce of the doctorate exam with distinction
PhD thesis: "White and Red Light Emitting Lanthanide Doped Crystals"
· 08/06 - 08/08 PostDoc at the Technical University of Graz
· 09/08 - 02/09 PostDoc at the Wetsus Excellence Center for Sustainable Water Technology in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
· 03/09 - current Theme Coordinator of the "Applied Water Physics" Theme at Wetsus.
· 01/12 - current Member of the Research Management Team as Program Manager at Wetsus
· 01/20 – current Head of the Wetsus company acquisition & collaboration team
· 02/20 – current Guest employment at UTwente, Optical Sciences group Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW)
Selected research cooperation:
· 2006 – ongoing: Research at the laser lab of Prof. Jakob Woisetschläger, TU Graz, Austria (several times per year)
· 01/2006 and 12/2013: IUVS study of the floating water bridge Dr. Filippo Bencivenga, Dr. Silvia Di Fonzo, Elettra Synchrotron Facility, Italy
· 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013: Several neutron scattering studies with Prof. José Teixeira, CNRS. Lab. Leon Brillouin Saclay, France
· 2008 – ongoing: NMR measurements with Prof. Lothar Brecker, University of Vienna, Austria
· 2008 – 2014: co-operation with late Prof. Emilio Del Giudice (INFN, Milan, Italy) and late Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
· 2008 – ongoing: co-operation with Prof. Giuseppe Vitiello (University of Salerno) on quantum field theory of water
· 06/2009: neutron scattering study of the floating water bridge (Prof. Alan Soper, ISIS Oxford, United Kingdom)
· 09/2010: Infrared emission study with Prof. Friedemann Freund and bacterial behavior with Prof. Lynn Rothschild, at NASA Ames
· 11/2010 and 04/2013: Ultrafast vibrational relaxation study of the water bridge with Prof. Huib Bakker, AMOLF Amsterdam The Netherlands
· 2010 – 2014: cooperation with Prof. Ernst Lankmayr and Prof. Georg Brasseur (both TU Graz) on impedance spectroscopy
· 2016 – ongoing: cooperation with Prof. Willibald Loiskandl, BOKU Vienna, on vortex research
· 2018: Rothera, Antarctica: investigation of a solar eclipse on water properties (Prof. Dick van der Kroef, NWO)
· 2019: Prof. Henrik Svensmark, DTU Copenhagen, Denmark, influence of ionizing radiation on the surface tension of water
Distinctions and awards:
• More than 25 reports in international newspapers between 2008 and 2020 on different scientific discoveries
• Several TV interviews (Austria, Germany, Japan, Bulgaria) about scientific discoveries
• “Inventor at TU Graz” – title bestowed by the headmaster of TU Graz for patent on white light emitting crystals
• Winner of four poster presentation awards at conferences in Austria and USA
• Two scientific papers honoured as “highlight of the year” by the Institute of Physics (IOP) (2007 and 2016)
• 2013 – ongoing: associate editor of WATER, a multidisciplinary journal (Prof. Gerald H. Pollack, University of Washington)
• More than 10 times winner of the annual Academic Kendo Championships in Styria, Austria;
between 2000 and 2008 member of the Austrian National Team for the European Iaido and Jodo championships
• Editor of special editions Special Issue "Electrohydrodynamic Liquid Bridges and Electrified Water" and
“Experiments in a Floating Water Bridge and Electrified Water” at MDPI Water
• Knight in the Order of St. Georg, a European Order of House Habsburg-Lorraine (invested on Oct. 7th, 2017)