Received his MD from the University of Vienna, Austria in 1990 and his MSc in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, USA in 2005 and PhD from Semmelweis University in Budapest 2017.

He completed his fellowship in nephrology at the Universities of Vienna and Stanford. In 2006 he was nominated as Director of the Renal Department of the Elisabethinen

Hospital and in 2014 to Director of the Department for Nephrology and Dialysis, Internal Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna.