M.S., University of Vienna, Austria, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, 1991.
Ph.D., University of Vienna, Austria, 2000.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: Institute for Clinical Neurobiology, University of Würzburg, Germany, 2000-2005.

Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., Instructor, Department of Cell Biology, 2006-2010; Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., faculty member, 2007-2017; Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga., Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, 2010-2017; associate director, Laboratory of Translational Cell Biology (LTCB) Stem Cell Lab, 2012-2017; Emory University Neuroscience Program, Atlanta, Ga., faculty member, 2013-2017; Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., faculty member, 2015-2017; Emory University Genetics and Molecular Biology Program, Atlanta, Ga., faculty member, 2016-2017; Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Atlanta, Ga., faculty member, 2016-2017.

Appointed to the staff of Mayo Clinic in Florida, 2017; Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2017-2020; Associate Professor, 2020-present; Assistant Dean, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 2020-present.