| 2006 | appointment as full Professor for Neuropharmacology at the Medical University of Graz |
| 1999 -2006 | Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Medical Univ. Vienna, Head of the Working Group of Neurochemistry |
| 1995 | Medical specialist in Pharmacology and Toxicology |
| 1995 -1997 | Visiting research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main |
| 1995 | awarding of the 'Venia Docendi' (lecturer) for Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna |
| 1989 -1999 | University assistent at the Institute of Neuropharmacology, University of Vienna |
| 1988 -1989 | part-time postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Neuropharmacology of the University of Vienna |
| 1987 -1989 | military service and clinical education at the Army Hospital in Vienna |
| 1983 -1987 | studying assistent at the Institute of Histology and Embryology of the University of Vienna |
| 1981 -1987 | Studies of Human Medicine at the University of Vienna |
| 1999 | Otto-Loewi-Preis der Österreichischen Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft |
| 1997 | Niederösterreichischer Wissenschaftspreis |
| 1996 | HOECHST-Preis für Biomedizinische Forschung |
| 2000 -2007 | JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY |
| 2000 -2007 | JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE |
| 2000 -2006 | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY |
| 2000 -2006 | BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY |
| 2000 -2006 | FEBS LETTERS |
| 2000 -2006 | NEUROSCIENCE |
| 2000 -2005 | BRAIN RESEARCH |
| 2000 -2005 | BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY |
| 2000 -2005 | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE |
| 2000 -2005 | JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY |
| 2000 -2005 | JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS |
| 2000 -2005 | MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY |
| 2000 -2005 | NAUNYN-SCHMIEDEBERGS ARCHIVES OF PHARMACOLOGY |
| 2000 -2007 | Wellcome Trust - United Kingdom |
| 2000 -2005 | Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank (ÖNB) - Austria |
| 2000 -2005 | International Science Foundation - United States (USA) |
| 2005 | Wellcome Trust |
| 2005 | German Israeli Foundation |
| 2004 | National Science Foundation |