| Curriculum vitae |
| 1967 |
born in Vienna |
| 1990 |
Diploma in Mineralogy and Crystallography at the University of Vienna |
| 1993 |
Ph.D. at the Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the University of Vienna
(Thesis "Kristallchemische Untersuchungen an natürlichen und synthetischen Telluriten mit zeolithartigen Kristallstrukturen") |
| 1994-1998 |
Postdoc at the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics (Bayerisches Geoinstitut, BGI) in Bayreuth, Germany |
| 1998-2002 |
Assistant at the Laboratory of Crystallography of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Switzerland |
| 1999 |
Habilitation at the University of Salzburg (Venia docendi in Mineralogie und Kristallographie) |
| 2002-2011 |
Professor for Crystallography (C3) at the 'Institut für Geowissenschaften' of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany. Leader of the research group Mineral Physics |
| since 02/2011 |
Professor for Mineralogy and Crystallography at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, University of Vienna |