Academic Career: Graduation at the University of Vienna/Austria: Doctor of Philosophy
Studies of communications & psychology at the University of Vienna and of political sciences at the Ohio University in Athens/Ohio/USA
Attainment of “Venia docendi“ (professorship) in Social Medicine, Medical University of Graz/ Austria
Work Experience: Since 03/2020: Director & CEO of HTA Austria - Austrian Institute for HTA (AIHTA) GmbH, Vienna
2006 - 2020: Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for HTA (LBI-HTA), Vienna
1989 - 2006: Senior Researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and development in the research field Health Technology Assessment in Austria, Vienna
1985 - 1988: Research Associate on "media impact on cognitions" at the Institute for Communications and Political Science at the University of Nuremberg/Germany and other freelance media impact research projects