Professional career:

2016 - 2021

Member of the German Science and Humanities Council (WR)
Since 2017: Speaker of the Committee Medicine

Since 2008

Scientific CEO und Speaker, German Diabetes Centre (DDZ),
Leibniz-Centre for Diabetes Research, University Düsseldorf

Director, Clinic for Metabolic Diseases; since 2013: Director Clinic for Endocrinology & Diabetology, University Hospital Düsseldorf

2008                                  

Appointed W3-Professorship, accepted
Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

2005 - 2009

Director, Karl-Landsteiner-Institute for Endocrinology and Metabolic diseases, Vienna, Austria

2003 - 2009     

Director of the 1. Med. Dept. of the Teaching Hospital of Medical University. Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria

1995 - 2003          

Senior physician and Professor, Clinical Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the University Department of Internal Medicine III at Vienna General Hospital, Austria

1994 - 1995     

Max-Kade Fellow, Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, CT, USA

1988 - 1994   

University Assistant, I. Medical University Hospital of the University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Austria

1986 - 1988

University Assistant, Department of Drug Identification and Pharmacokinetics, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Vienna, Austria

University career:

2010

Certification as a specialist in internal medicine and endocrinology and diabetology, Germany

2003

Certification as a specialist for Clinical Pharmacology, Austria

1997

Certification as a specialist for endocrinology and metabolism, Austria

1994

Venia legendi for Internal Medicine, University of Vienna
Title: Modulation of hepatic insulin sensitivity

1993

Certification as a specialist for internal medicine

1986

Doctorate (Dr. med. univ.), University of Vienna, Austria

1979 - 1986

Study of Human Medicine, University of Vienna, Austria

Awards and scholarships:

2021                    

Honorary Member of the Hungarian Diabetes Society (Magyar Diabetes Társaság, MTD)

2021

Werner-Creutzfeldt-Award of the German Diabetes Society (Deutschen Diabetes Gesellschaft, DDG)

2018

G. B. Morgagni Prize und Gold Medal Career Achievement

2017

Paul-Langerhans-Medaille of the German Diabetes Society (Deutschen Diabetes Gesellschaft, DDG)

2016

Honorary Doctorate of the Faculty of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens, Greece

2014

Somogyi Award MDT

2013

Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia

2006

Oskar-Minkowski Prize of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)

2006

ESCI (Mack-Foster) Award for Excellence in Clinical Sciences

2004

International Novartis Award for Innovative Patient-Oriented Research

2001

Novartis (Sandoz) Prize for Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Austria

2001

Ferdinand-Bertram-Award DDG