Education
Since 2006: International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) “The Leipzig School of Human Origins”
2005: Master’s Degree (Mag.) in Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria (with honors)
1999- 2005: Study of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna
1999: Matura in Linz, Austria

Fellowships
2006-2009: Marie Curie doctoral fellowship (EU FP6 Marie Curie Research Training Network MRTN-CT-2005-019564) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
2004 – 2006: Research fellowship (Austrian Ministry of Culture, Science & Education, and the Austrian Council for Science and Technology GZ 200.093/3-VI/I/04) at the Department of Anthropology, Vienna, Austria.
2003-2004: Research fellowship (Austrian Science Foundation FWF P14738-B02) at the Department of Anthropology, Vienna, Austria.

Fieldwork
December 2003 and February 2005: Participation in the PaleoAnthropological Research-Team mission, surveying Pliocene deposits in the Somali Region, Ethiopia.