Since 05/2013
University assistant at the Institute of Materials Chemistry

11/2012 - 04/2013
Senior Post Doc at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck; Schrödinger Fellowship return phase

11/2011 - 10/2012
Post Doc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley CA/USA, Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship Chemical Science Division and Advanced Light Source (ALS)
"Water activation/splitting on group 8 - 10 metals and intermetallic compounds";" Hydrogen purification by metal membranes" (Dr. Hendrik Bluhm)

09/2011
PhD in Natural Science (Dr. rer. nat.), Max Planck Fellowship, Inorganic Chemistry Department, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin (Supervision: Prof. Robert Schlögl) Department of Physical Chemistry, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck (Supervision: Dr. Bernhard Klötzer)
Topic: "CuZn-, PdGa- und PdZn-Model Catalysts: Preparation, In-situ-Characterisation und selective Catalysis in Methanol Steam Reforming"

01/02 2008
IAESTE Internship at the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba/Japan, Organic Nanomaterials Centre, (Prof. Izumi Ichinose)
Topic: "Dried Foam Films, Newton Black Films, Polypyrrole thin films"

12/2007
Diploma in Chemistry (Mag. rer. nat.) Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck (Supervisor: Dr. Bernhard Klötzer)
Topic: "Nanostructured Pd-Zn Surfaces as Model Catalysts for Methanol Steam Reforming"