• since 2023 Project Researcher  „Coregonus – Aus den Archiven zum angewandten Artenschutz: Biodiversitätsmonitoring der Coregonen in Österreich“

• since 2022 Project Researcher „Citizen Science Elritzen - Kleine Fische ganz groß“ 

• 2019-2022 Master in Zoologie, Universität Wien; Master thesis: „Phylogenetic relationships of the goshawk Accipiter [gentilis] superspecies“

• 2014-2019 Bachelor in Biology with Major in Animal and Plant Sciences, Universität Basel

Palandacic A, Chai MJ, Bogutskaya N, Reier S, Friedrich R, Wanzenböck S, Wanzenböck J, Rund H, Glaser F, Mikschi E (2024) Then and now: Citizen scientists help assess the changing biodiversity of minnows in Austria. ARPHA Proceedings 6: 31-36. https://doi.org/10.3897/ap.e125623
GERNOT K. ENGLMAIER, MIN CHAI, ALEMAYEHU WUBIE, RUPERT A. COLLINS & ABEBE GETAHUN (2024). A new species within the Enteromius kerstenii complex (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae, Smiliogastrinae) from south-western Ethiopia. Zootaxa, Vol. 5512 No. 2.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.2.2
Chai, Min, Mikschi, Ernst, Reier, Susanne, Wanka, Alexandra, Friedrich, Rok, Wanzenböck, Sabine, Wanzenböck, Josef, Rund, Hans, Glaser, Florian, & Palanda?i?, Anja. (2024). Small fish make it big – Biodiversity of Austria’s Minnows  (Phoxinus sp.). Acta ZooBot Austria, 160, 203–206. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_160_0203-0206.pdf
Palanda?i?, A., Chai, M. J., Shandikov, G. A., Akkari, N., Frade, P. R., Randolf, S., Berg, H.-M., Mikschi, E., & Bogutskaya, N. G. (2024). An annotated catalogue of selected historical type specimens, including genetic data, housed in the Natural History Museum Vienna. ZooKeys, 1203, 253–323. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1203.117699
Sittenthaler, M., Chai, M., Kruckenhauser, L. et al. Truly monogamous? Investigating multiple paternity in Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) in a reestablished population in Austria. Mamm Biol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-024-00450-2
Orcid Eintrag: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6213-2973