Education

• 1995: PhD, Institut de Génie Atomique, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1992: Master (Dipl. - Ing.) in Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Academic Positions

• 08/2016 - present: Complimentary appointment with Rice University, Houston, USA
• 08/2016  - 01/2017: Visiting Professor at Rice University, Houston, USA
• 05/2005 - present: Full Professor at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
• 02/2003 - 04/2005: Associate Professor (C3) at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI CPfS), Dresden, Germany
• 12/2001 - 03/2002: Visiting Professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Nagoya University, Japan
• 01/1999 - 01/2003: Scientific Collaborator at MPI CPfS
• 08/1995 - 12/1998: Scientific Collaborator at Laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 05/1992 - 05/1995: Research Assistant at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides Semi - cristallins, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
• 10/1990 - 02/1992: Scientific Collaborator as graduate student, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
• 07/1989 - 09/1989: Summer Student, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Honors and Awards (selected)

• 2021: ERC Advanced Grant Correlation - driven Metallic Topology (CorMeTop)
• 2021: FWF SFB Correlated Quantum Materials and Solid State Quantum Systems (Q - M&S)
• 2015: APS Fellow
• 2008: ERC Advanced Grant QuantumPuzzle
• 2003: Associate Professor (C3) group leader position plus start - up funding awarded by the Max Planck Society within Excellence Program for the Advancement of Outstanding Female Scientists

Institutional Responsibilities (selected)

• 2011 - present: Head of the Vienna Microkelvin Laboratory at TU Wien
• 2009 - present: Speaker of Research and Activity Domain “Materials for Thermoelectricity and Magnetocalorimetry” of the European Integrated Centre for the Development of New Metallic Alloys and Compounds (C - MAC)
• 2009 - 2010: Chair of search committee for full professorship “Solid State Spectroscopy” at IFP at TU Wien; call accepted by Andrei Pimenov
• 2007 - 2015: Head of Institute of Solid State Physics (IFP) at TU Wien
• 2008 - 2012: Speaker of TU Vienna Graduate School “Functional Matter”
• 2007 - 2010: Deputy director of TU Wien for FP6 NoE CMA, leader of a workpackage, a longterm, and a shortterm project (www.cma - ecnoe.net/)
• 2007 - present: Vice president of faculty board of Faculty of Physics at TU Wien
• 2006 - 2010: Chair of “Arbeitskreis Chancengleichheit Physik” of the Austrian Physical Society (www.univie.ac.at/chance - oepg/)
• 2006 - 2007: Chair of search committee for full professorship “Computational Materials Science” at IFP at TU Wien; call accepted by Karsten Held
• 2004 - 2009: Corresponding member of “Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics” (www.condmatjournalclub.org/)

Editor/Curator

• 2008 - 2013: Editor to the "European Physical Journal B"
• 2013 - 2018: Curator to "Physik in Unserer Zeit"

Memberships in International Boards (selected)

• since 2023: Member of Institutsbeirat of the: Max - Planck - Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
• since 2021: IUPAP C5 Commission Member
• since 2020: Founding and board member of the Association of ERC Grantees (AERG)
• since 2015: Board of the International Thermoelectric Society
• since 2015: Condensed Matter Board (Main & Sect. Low Temperature) of the European Physical Society
• since 2015: Member of Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Kommission fur Tieftemperaturforschung, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften