Awards & Grants

December 2022 Grant for project costs from the Novartis Foundation for Medical-Biological Research (principal investigator; CHF 59.166,00)
December 2023 – November 2025 “Light therapy as add-on therapy tool to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)”. Seed Money funding from the European Campus EUCOR (EUR 34.000,-; role: co-applicant; principal investigator: Prof. Kai Spiegelhalder, University of Freiburg, Germany)
November 2022 Grant for project costs from the Fonds zur Förderung von Lehre und Forschung from the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (FAG) Basel (CHF 15.600,-; role: principal investigator)
June 2022 Science communication award of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) Section Biological & Neuropsychology
April 2022 Antelope Career Programme, University of Basel (CHF 4.000,-)
April 2022 – March 2026
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione grant (04/22-03/26; principal investigator; CHF 930.449,-).
December 2021 Christian-Doppler Award of the Land Salzburg 2021 in the division Molecular Biosciences and Neurosciences (together with Monika Angerer, University of Salzburg).
April 2021 – March 2022 Grant from the Research Fund of the University of Basel for Outstanding Junior Researchers (principal investigator; CHF 79.412,00).
October 2020 Nachwuchsförderpreis Schlafforschung for our work on COVID-19 and Sleep by the German Sleep Society DGSM.
December 2019 Grant from the Novartis Foundation for Medical-Biological Research for the LIGHT.Sleep project at the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel (principal investigator; CHF 55.111,00)
June 2019 Grant from the Forschungsförderungsfonds of the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel for the LIGHT.Sleep project at the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel (principal investigator; CHF 31.500,00)
May 2019 Grant from the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (FAG) Basel for the LIGHT.Sleep project at the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel (principal investigator; CHF 20.000,00)
January 2019 – March 2021
3-year Schrödinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF; principal investigator; € 177.805,00)
September 2018 Giselher-Guttmann Price 2018 of the Austrian Society for Neuropsychology (GNPÖ) for our work on circadian rhythms in patients with severe brain injury (€ 500)
Poster Prize of the Young Austrian Neuroscience Association (ANA) at the “Salzburg Neuroscience Day”
May 2017    Young Investigators Award of the University of Salzburg
January 2014 – December 2016 PhD Scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. (≈ € 49.000)
October 2009 – June 2010 One-year grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (≈ € 14.000)
December 2007 – November 2012 Scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V./ German Academic Scholarship Foundation (≈ € 6.200)