Specialist areas and research interests:
- Reproductive medicine, ovarian stimulation: optimisation and new approaches.
- Embryo development: improvement of culture conditions
- Improving the selection criteria of the "optimal" embryo to avoid higher grade multiple pregnancies
- Medical studies at the University of Vienna, doctorate in 1992.
- Research assistant and teaching trainee at the Institute for Sterility Care (Univ.Prof.Dr.W.Feichtinger); successful establishment of micromanipulation and achievement of the first pregnancy by means of "Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection" in Austria; first pregnancy with testicular sperm in Austria.
- Stay at the IVF Centre of the Herzeliya Medical Center, Israel (Dr. A. Kogosowski)
- Establishment of micromanipulation in IVF using LASER
- Stay at the Royal Women Hospital, Melbourne, Australia (Prof. Dr. I. Johnston)
- Learning of ICSI (Intracytoplasmatic Sperm Injection)
- Contract assistant, then university assistant at the Vienna University Women's Hospital Department of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Sterility Treatment (Prof. DDr. J. Huber); reorganisation of the IVF outpatient clinic at the University Women's Hospital, successful establishment of micromanipulation.
- Since 2000 specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics.
- November 2002 Awarded the venia docendi at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna ("Microsurgery on the Human Oocyte - Optimisation of Fertilisation and Implantation in the Context of In Vitro Fertilisation").
- March 2003 Awarded the title of "Associate University Professor" by Federal Minister Elisabeth Gehrer.
- June 2000 Foundation of the Kinderwunschzentrum Goldenes Kreuz (together with Prof. Dr. Heinz Strohmer)
- June 2002 President of the 18th Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology 28-29 June in Vienna
- 2003 Foundation of the "Austrian IVF Society" together with Prof. Dr. Heinz Strohmer as a non-profit organisation representing the interests of Austrian IVF centres
- 2004 Opening of Ferticent Bratislava
- 2009 Foundation of the Academy for Reproductive Medicine
- 2015 Foundation of the Competence Centre for Rainbow Families
- 2019 Election as President of the Austrian IVF Society
- 2020 Foundation of the Kinderwunschzentrum an der Wien (together with Prof. Dr. Heinz Strohmer)
- 2022 Foundation and medical director of the "Ova center" at the Kinderwunschzentrum an der Wien
Numerous publications, book contributions and lectures on the subject of reproduction and contraception.