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Statistik Austria, science classification

• Geriatrics - (302019).
• Gerontology - (302020).
• Epidemiology - (303007).
• Health sciences - (303012).
• Public health - (303026).
• Social medicine - (303027).
• Medical statistics - (305907).

Scientific Expertise

• Social determinants of health.
• Frailty.
• End of life.
• Longitudinal data analysis.
• Disability.
• Long-term care dependency.
• Cause of death.
• Suicide.
• Register data.

Curr. Vitae

2025	Research Professor, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz
2019 -2019	Habilitation for Social Medicine
2016 -2024	Postdoc researcher, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz
2014 -2016	PraeDoc researcher, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Medical University of Graz
2011 -2015	PhD program sociology, University of Salzburg
2009 -2010	Joint Study Program: Graduate School for Sociology University of Minnesota
2009 -2011	Master's degree sociology
2006 -2009	Undergraduate Study: Sociology

Awards

2025	Best Paper Award 2024: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (OeGEpi)
2019	Forscher des Jahres, Medizinische Universität Graz
2011	Begabtenstipdendium des Landes Steiermark
2011	AK-Förderpreis, Arbeiterkammer Steiermark
2011	SOWI Ranking: Beste Masterarbeit Institut für Soziologie, Universität Graz

Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies

2019 -2020

Österreichische Gesellschaft für Public Health (ÖGPH) Vorstandsmitglied

Reviewer for scientific journals

2020 -2025	JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
2023 -2025	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGEING
2024 -2024	AGING CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
2024 -2024	AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
2024 -2024	ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
2024 -2024	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
2024 -2024	PUBLIC HEALTH
2019 -2023	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
2023 -2023	BMC GERIATRICS
2016 -2022	THE JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY. SERIES B, PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
2019 -2022	AGE AND AGEING
2018 -2021	BMJ OPEN
2021 -2021	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POPULATION
2021 -2021	JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
2017 -2020	JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
2020 -2020	BMC PSYCHIATRY
2019 -2019	GERIATRIC NURSING
2019 -2019	JOURNAL OF AGING & SOCIAL POLICY
2019 -2019	PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
2019 -2019	RESEARCH ON AGING
2019 -2019	THE LANCET. PUBLIC HEALTH.
2018 -2018	CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
2018 -2018	PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
2018 -2018	SOC SCI MED
2017 -2017	GERONTOLOGY
2017 -2017	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
2014 -2014	BMC MEDICAL ETHICS

Reviewer/Expert funding organizations

2023 -2023	Velux Stiftung - Switzerland
2022 -2022	Swiss Cancer League - Foundation Cancer Research Switzerland - Switzerland
2021 -2021	Dr. Johannes und Hertha Tuba-Stiftung - Austria

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