since 2024Ordinary professor ad personam
Co-Director, Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife, Vetsuisse Faculty,
University of Zurich, Switzerland
since 2013Extraordinary professor ad personam
since 2008Guest professor for animal nutrition (Prof. G. Janssens) of Ghent University, Belgium
2006Habilitation thesis LMU Munich, Germany (animal nutrition)
since 2005Head of Research
Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and Wildlife (Prof. J.-M. Hatt)
Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2000 – 2005Research Assistant at the Institute of Animal Physiology, Physiological Chemistry and Animal Nutrition, LMU Munich, Germany (Prof. E. Kienzle)
2000Doctoral thesis (Dr. med. vet.) LMU Munich, Germany (animal nutrition)
1998 – 2000Research Assistant at the Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)
(Director: Prof. R. R. Hofmann) in the Research Group for Nutritional Adaptations (Dr. M. Lechner-Doll), Berlin, Germany
1997 – 1998MSc in Wild Animal Health at the ZSL / RVC, London, Great Britain
1991 – 1997Studies of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany