Education
1967 – 1974 : Studied medicine at the University of Bern with a diploma
1974 : PhD thesis at the Anatomical Institute at the University of Bern. Prize awarded to ETS Magglingen.
1974 – 1977 : Resident Regionalspital Burgdorf
1977 – 1980 : Physician and assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Bern
1982 : Research Fellow at the Institute of Physiology at the University of Birmingham, UK
1985 : Theodor Kocher Award from the University of Bern
1986 : Adjunct and issuing Venia Docendi in the subjects of anatomy and histology
1988 : Award of the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine 1988
1988 : Election to full-time professor and department head “Systematic Anatomy”
1992 – 1994 : Director of the Sports Science Institute of the Swiss Federal Sports Magglingen

Support
Current applications supported by:
Switzerland. National Science Foundation, Swiss Federal Sports Commission Magglingen, Swiss and Swiss ski Olympics
Academic activities since 1995
1995 – Editor: Journal of Experimental Biology
1999 – President of the Commission on Sport and Sport Sciences at the University of Bern
2000 – Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck

Other Tasks
1998 – President of Swiss Society for Sports Medicine
2001 – President of the commission fight against doping