Dr. Michaela Eder

Year and place of birth 1972, Freistadt (Austria)  

Education

• Doctoral thesis: 11/2007 at BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, Vienna, Austria.
• Diploma in Wood Science and Technology: 05/2003 at BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
• prolonged university studies because of child education and different „jobs“
• A-level: 06/1992 BHAK Freistadt, A-level: June 1992, Freistadt, Austria

Academic career

• from 09/2011: Research group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam, Germany
• 10/2007 – 09/2011: Post-doc at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam, Germany
• 09/2004 – 09/2007: PhD student at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam, Germany
• 07/2003 – 08/2004: research assistant at the Institute of Meteorology and Physics (since 01/2004 Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering)
• 03/2003 – 06/2003: research fellowship at the Institute of Meteorology and Physics
• from 2002 - 2003 tutor at the Institute of Meteorology and Physics

Other

• since 01/2019 involved in the Excellence Cluster "Matters of Activity"
• 01/2015 - 12/2018 Associated Member in the Excellence Cluster "Image-Knowledge-Gestaltung"
• 11/2008 – 10/2012: leader of working group 2 “(Hygro)-mechanical behaviour of wood”, COST Action FP0802 – Experimental and Computational Micro-Characterization Techniques in Wood Mechanics