EDUCATION and TRAINING: Jun 1986 Graduation, MD Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck Jun 1979 Graduation, High School Heart-of-Jesus Missionares Salzburg CURRENT OCCUPATION: Full Professor, Head of Division RESEARCH and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Jan 2005 Head of Division Division for Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Department for Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University Sep 2003 Full Professor Appointment, Professor for Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Department for Biochemical Pharmacology, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck May 1995 – Jun 2003 Assistant Professor Department for Biochemical Pharmacology, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck July 1994 – Jun 1997 APART Fellowship (Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology) granted by the Austrian Academy for Sciences Visiting Scientist at the Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, USA and at Department for Biochemical Pharmacology Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck Jan 1994 – Jun 1994 Military Service Van-Swieten barracks in Vienna and Military Hospital in Innsbruck Sep 1993 – Dec 1993 Senior Post Doc Department for Biochemical Pharmacology, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck Jun 1991 – Aug 1993 Erwin-Schroedinger Fellow, Visiting Scientist Postdoctoral fellowship of the Austrian Research Foundation Post Doc at the Merck Research Laboratories, Department for Ion Channels, Rahway, NJ, USA May 1988 – May 1991 Post Doc, continuation Department for Biochemical Pharmacology, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck Feb 1988 – Apr 1988 Post Doc Institute for Cardiovascular Research, German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany Mar 1987 – Jan 1988 Post Doc Department for Biochemical Pharmacology, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck

In particular we plan to characterize Ca2+- and Na+-activated K+ channels (e.g. slick and slack channels) of which very recently gene-product-deficient animals became available.