Current position (since 2018): Specialist in Transfusion Medicine & Head of the Research Unit Human Erythropoiesis, Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Austria 1993 – 2001 Studies in Human Medicine at the Medical University of Lübeck, Germany 2001 – 2007 First clinical education (Transfusion Medicine) Institute for Immunology & Transfusion Medicine, Medical University Lübeck 2003 Doctoral degree (Dr. med.) from the Medical University of Lübeck, Germany 2007 – 2018 Second clinical education (Pediatrics) (University Hospital Lübeck (Germany), University Hospital Münster (Germany), University Hospital Graz (Austria) Research on human erythropoiesis 2009 – 2010 Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMRS 938, Paris; France (Luc Douay), fellowship funded by the German Society for Transfusion Medicine (DGTI), „Ex vivo culturing of human red blood cells” 2011 – 2012 Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Cell & Developmental Biology, Münster, Germany (Hans Schöler) Fellowship funded by the Medical University Münster and the German Society for Transfusion Medicine (DGTI) „Ex vivo generation of red blood cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells“