| 1969 | Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Dr. sc.nat. ETH) in Zurich |
| | Started his career in Japan in research at Hitachi Ltd. |
| 1974-1986 | Several positions in the analytical research and development of new drug substances and products at Sandoz in Basel |
| 1986-1995 | Head of Analytical Research and Development at Sandoz in Basel |
| 1995-2000 | Several management positions in Quality Assurance/Control at Sandoz and after the merger within Novartis |
| 2000-2002 | Director of Novartis Pharmanalytica SA in Locarno, Switzerland |
| 2002-2009 | Head of Technical Liaison, Global Quality Operations of Novartis in Basel (responsible for the establishing of Novartis Global activities on Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) and Quality by Design) |
| | Since 2009 Consultant (retired from Novartis after 35 years in the pharmaceutical Industry) |
| 1971 | B.E. in Engineering Science (1st Class Hons) at Auckland University, NZ |
| 1971-1972 | Master s research in the Dept. of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics at Auckland University |
| 1973-1975 | Postgraduate research for D.Phil. in Physiology at Oxford University |
| 1975-1977 | Research Fellow and tutor at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University |
| Research Fellow at Rutherford Laboratory, UK |
| 1977-1978 | Engineering Lecturer at Keble College, Oxford |
| since 1979 | Lecturer to Professor in Engineering Science at Auckland University |
| 1998-1999 | Associate Dean of Research in the School of Engineering |
| 1999-2000 | James Cook Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand |
| 2001 | Distinguished Professor, University of Auckland |
| since 2001 | Director of Bioengineering Institute at Auckland University |
| since 2003 | Director, Computational Physiology, University of Oxford |
| 1969 | B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN) |
| 1973 | Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 1974-1979 | Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University |
| 1979-1983 | Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University |
| 1980-1981 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 1984-1991 | Professor of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University |
| 1985-1988 | Founding Editor, Biotechnology Progress (Board since 1988) |
| 1986-2006 | Editorial Board, AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Journal |
| 1988-1989 | Visiting Prof., Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| since 1990 | Editorial Board, Biotechnology and Bioengineering |
| 1991-2001 | Board of Directors, Phyton |
| since 1992 | Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University |
| since 1993 | Director, Bioengineering Program |
| since 1994 | Editorial Board, Enzyme and Microbial Technology |
| 1995 | Guest Professor, Institute for Biotechnology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1996-2008 | Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press |
| 1998-2002 | Director, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
| 2001-2003 | Board of Directors, American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| 2002-2004 | Director, Biomedical Engineering Program |
| since 2004 | James and Marsha McCormick Chair of Biomedical Engineering |
| | Scientific Advisory Board, HuRel |
| 2005-2008 | Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore |
| 1985 | MSc. Civil Engineering (with distinction), Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria |
| 1986-1987 | National Service at Red Cross |
| 1987-1997 | Assistant and Docent at the Institute of Strength of Materials, TU Graz |
| 1990 | PhD in Mechanical Engineering (with distinction), TU Graz |
| 1991 | Visiting Scholar at University of Shenyang, P.R. China |
| 1993-1995 | Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Division of Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University; with late Prof. JC Simo |
| 1996 | Habilitation in "Mechanics" Vienna University of Technology |
| 1998-2004 | Associate Professor and Head of the Research Group "Computational Biomechanics", Institute of Structural Analysis, TU Graz |
| 2003 | Visiting Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain |
| Offer of a Chair (C4) in Continuum Mechanics, University of Kassel, Germany (not accepted) |
| 2004-2007 | Full Professor and Chair of Biomechanics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2007 | Visiting Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| since 2007 | Full Professor and Chair of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology; Adjunct Full Professor and Chair of Biomechanics, Department of Solid Mechanics, School of Engineering Sciences, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm |
| since 2009 | Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1991 | DI in Chemical Engineering (highest distinction), Graz University of Technology |
| 1995 | Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (highest distinction), Graz University of Technology |
| 1996-1998 | Post Doc in Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston (TX) |
| 1998-2003 | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Piscataway (NJ) |
| since 2003 | Tenured Professor, Rutgers University, Piscataway (NJ) |
| 2003-2006 | Director of the Rutgers Catalyst Consortium, Rutgers University, Piscataway (NJ) |
| since 2005 | Professor of Pharmaceutical and Process Engineering |
| 2005-2008 | Marie Curie Chair of the European Union |
| since 2006 | Head of the Institute for Process Engineering, Graz University of Technology |
| since 2008 | Scientific Director of the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH |
