Present Title/Position: Full professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Head of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology Education: 1981-89 Medical school, University of Innsbruck, Austria 1988-90 Doctoral thesis "Thromboembolic complications following renal transplantation" written at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in collaboration with the Division of Nephrology, Innsbruck University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria Post-Graduate Education and Career History: 1991-1997 Postdoctoral fellow and residency in Medical Biology at the Institute of Medical Biology and Human Genetics, University of Innsbruck 1997 Speciality: Medical Biology and Human Genetics Subspeciality: Lipoprotein metabolism, genetic epidemiology 1997-1999 Postdoctorol Fellowship at the Department of Cardiovascular Genetics at the University of Utah, USA. Supported by an "APART scholarship" from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Research topic: geneticepidemiological methods (segregation and linkage analyses) 1999-2002 Independent scientist at the Department of Medical Biology and Human Genetics, University of Innsbruck. 2000 "Habilitation" at the University of Innsbruck 2002-2004 Head of the Research Unit "Genetic Epidemiology" at the Institute of Epidemiology, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg - Munich, Germany 2008-2017 Director of the Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology 2004-present Full professor of Genetic Epidemiology at the Innsbruck Medical University; Head of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology and of the Sequencing&Genotyping Core Facility

Genetic epidemiology, lipoprotein metabolism, lipoprotein(a), genetics of complex diseases such as atherosclerosis, kidney diseases, diabetes mellitus; intermediate phenotypes; clinical epidemiological studies