| 2012 -- | Professorship for "Genetic epidemiology and Susceptibility Diagnosis" |
| 2009 -2012 | Member of the Senate at the Medical University Graz representing the scientific personel |
| 2009 | Head of the Research Unit "Genetic Epidemiology" at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry |
| 2009 -2010 | Speaker of the scientific personel at the Medical University Graz |
| 2008 -2012 | Vice-chair of the Personeldevelopment council of the Medical University Graz |
| 2005 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Genetic Epidemiology, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam the Netherlands |
| 2001 | Associate professor and Head of the DNA-Analysis Lab Inst Molecularbiology and Biochemistry |
| 2001 | Guest Researcher Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry Program, National Institute of Aging, NIH, Bethesda, USA. |
| 2001 | Habilitation "Medical Biochemistry with special attantion to Molecular Biology" Karl-Franzens University Graz |
| 2001 | head of the Neurogenetic Laboratory at the Deptarment of Neurology |
| 2001 | Master of Science in "Genetic Epidemiology" Erasmus Universität Rotterdam, the Netherlands |
| 1993 | Nostrification Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria |
| 1990 | 1-year fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institut, Buffalo, New York Department for Biomathematics and Laboratory for Flow Cytometry |
| 1990 | Nostrification USA-Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates ECFMG |
| 1989 | promotion dr med univ Semmelweis Medical University Budapest |
| 2011 | Posterpreis der Österreichen Azheimer Gesellschaft |
| 2001 | Pfizer CNS Research price 2001 |
| 1989 | Rector`s award of the Semmelweis Medical University |
| 2010 -2012 | Österreichische Alzheimer Gesellschaft Hauptmitglied des Vorstandes |
| 2023 -2024 | NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING |
| 2023 -2024 | NPJ GENOMIC MEDICINE |
| 2024 -2024 | JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION |
| 2021 -2022 | NEUROLOGY |
| 2022 -2022 | SCIENCE ADVANCES |
| 2021 -2021 | CIRCULATION |
| 2021 -2021 | FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE |
| 2008 -2020 | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| 2019 -2020 | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS |
| 2020 -2020 | MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT |
| 2000 -2019 | STROKE |
| 2019 -2019 | JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS |
| 2015 -2016 | JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS |
| 2016 -2016 | PLOS ONE |
| 2012 -2015 | ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY |
| 2013 -2015 | BRAIN |
| 2012 -2012 | NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES |
| 1999 -2011 | JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY |
| 2009 -2009 | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS |
| 2008 -2008 | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY |
| 2000 -2003 | DIABETOLOGIA |
| 2013 -2013 | Alessandro Liberati Programme - Programma di ricerca Regione-Università Area 1: Innovative Research - Italy |
| 2013 -2013 | Jubileumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank - Austria |
| 2010 | 23.Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Alzheimer Gesellschaft Mitglied Organisationskomitee |
| 2009 | 22. Jahrestagung der
Österreichischen Alzheimer Gesellschaft Mitglied Organisationskomitee |
| 2008 | Genome wide approaches to dissect complex diseases Organisator |