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Personal data	born 1969 in Austria
Academic career	PhD in Zoology (2001), Habilitation in Zoology (2013)
2014 – today	Associate Professor at the Institue of Zoology, Karl-Franzens University Graz
1999 - 2014	University Assistant at the Institue of Zoology, Karl-Franzens University Graz
1990 - 1999	Biomedical Assistant (BMA) at the Department of Medical Physics und Biophysics
Areas of research	Insect pest control, Artificial intelligent systems, Bionics, Behavioral ecology, Sensory ecology, Neurobiology
Publications:	45 papers in peer-reviewed journals; 69 contributions to international scientific meetings
Skills	Tensorflow programming, KERAS AI training, Python programming, ImageJ, R statistics software
Reviewer for:	NSF US, Human-Frontier Science Program, PNAS, Ethology, Biomimetics and Bioinspiration, J Orthoptera Research, Ecol. Modelling, Sensors, PNAS, Bioacoustics, Experimental Biology, Naturwissenschaften
Grants:	Doso_Ex, FFG Spin-off fellowship FO999909599 (01.03.2024 – 31.08.2025), 494.850.-€ Multi-sensor Netzwerke und Agrardrohnen für die Bekämpfung von invasiven Wanzen im Obstbau, FFG project FO999910785, KIRAS call: Food security, (01.12.2023 – 30.11.2025), 379.007.-€ BioZid, aws Austria project P2018022 (2020 – 2021): 65.000.-€ BioKollAvoid, FFG call: TakeOff (01.10.2019 – 2022): 485.520.-€ Link: projekte.ffg.at/projekt/3337116 KollSens, FFG call: TakeOff (2018 – 2019): 254.542.-€ Mammobee: Reduction of mammography X-ray dosis through bionics, aws Austria project P1716437-WZP01, (01.03.2018 – 30.07.2019): 118.699.-€ Bionisches Kollisionssensorsystem für Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, FFG project 861055, (09.2017 – 08.2018), 107.000.-€ Collective defence in non-myrmecophilous aphids, Austrian Science Fund (FWF, 2013 – 2017): 272.560.-€ Coooperation and competition in a chorusing insect species – Austrian Science Fund (FWF, 2009 – 2014): 250.584.- €