Current position

Since March 2009 project staff ("Man and the Environment - Past and Present", project leader: O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Horst Seidler)

Fields of interest

• comparative dental morphology and wear patterns of extant & fossil cercopithecoids
• cranial morphology, taxonomy and phylogeny of cercopithecoids
  
• human osteology
  

Professional experience

2003-2007 technical assistant at the Department of Anthropology with a main focus on photo documentary work and administration of the department's cast collection; Surface scanning of peruvian Chachapoya-Inka Mummies burial objects, Austrian Palaeolithic infant skeletons and small zoological objects.

Teaching

2007 Lecture on 3D measurement methods for physical anthropologists, University of Vienna, Austria.

2005/6 teaching assistant of the human osteology class for physical anthropologists (with M. Teschler-Nicola), University of Vienna, Austria.

Fieldwork

• Excavation of the palaeolithic site Willendorf, Austria 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 (with Ph. Nigst & B. Viola).

• Participant of the PAR Team Field Seasons 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 in the Somali Region, Ethiopia (with H. Seidler).

• Excavation of Miocene deposits in Felsötarkany, Hungary 2005 (with D. Begun).

• Cave excavation “Lieglloch”, Austria 2005 (with G. Rabeder).

Conference and workshop attendance

• Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) in Bristol, U.K. 2009.

• Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) in Philadelphia, USA 2007.

• Participation at the ITC on "Functional Morphology and Evolution of Mammalian Dentition" at Senckenberg 2007

• Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA) in Anchorage, USA 2006.
• Observer at the “Dental Anthropology - State of the Art” Congress, Leipzig, Germany 2005

Comparative studies at the following collections:

Ethiopian National Museum, Addis Ababa

National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi

Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa

Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum in London, UK

Department of Anthropology, J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, Germany

Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Natural History in Budapest, Hungary

Department of Anthropology and Archeological Biology, National Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria

Department of Zoology, National Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria