Since childhood, I am interested in how the art of healing is practiced in different cultures.

I studied medicine summa cum laude and in parallel to my medical studies, I began with my  training in research. Aiming to understand more about the mechanisms - how diseases develop - and possible treatments, I studied cell biology in the United States and continued with my research.

After a few years spent in the lab, I missed my patients.  I then returned to Austria and began a fellowship in internal medicine at the University Hospital in Vienna. Very soon, I focused on intensive care medicine and emergency medicine - until

a very severe illness ended my career at the University Hospital.

Thereafter, I began my search to rebuild my own health without severe side effects of medications. I "tried" many alternative therapies - and those, which helped, I studied myself.

Through this experience, I started to study alternative therapies to western medicine in the same systematic and analytical way I was trained in before.

Although my illness seemed to throw me into a black hole without exit, it opened a new path for me that I would not have found without it. Today, I am able to be grateful for this experience.