works as an Associate Professor at the Center for Public Health, Vienna Medical University. Originally educated as an internist and holding a professorship in psychosomatics, he has for the past ten years specialized in transdisciplinary cooperation between medicine, art, and performance. He has contributed to artistic works, video works and performances which have been exhibited at Tate Modern and Tanzquartier Vienna and have been awarded by Performing Science Gießen and the Austrian Science Fund.