Pediatrician specialized in Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care medicine, and Head of the Department of Neonatology at the Kepler University Hospital Linz/Austria
Educated at the Medical University of Vienna (MUV), and helps lead a broad portfolio of research based at the MUV and the Kepler University hospital Linz
Coordinates the PIES and PREWEAN projects that track the growth and metabolic outcomes of preterm infants after introduction of complementary feeding
Current trials which are also conducted with the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg include exploring the impact of human milk Micro- RNA and Exsosomes on reparative processes
Further major research interest relates to parenteral and enteral nutrition and human milk
Earned grants from Austrian FWF, the Austrian National Bank and the Bürgermeisterfonds of the City of Vienna
Faculty member of the Medical University of Vienna, head of the national committee of pediatric nutrition of the Austrian Pediatric Society, head of the national neonatal nutrition committee of the federal ministry of health and an elected member for the ESPGHAN (European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) nutrition committee
Published more than 80 peer reviewed articles and her H-Index is 28 (Google scholar)
