Space instrumentation, Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, Astromineralogy, History of Astronomy (ADS-Service) (Google-Scholar)

Extensive outreach activities through talks, tours, TV, Radio, press interviews/articles, exhibitions

Born: 1963, Dec. 5; 1988: Master in Astronomy; 1993: Doctor in Natural Sciences

1988-96: Research assistant in Vienna and Paris

1992: Working with mentally and physically handicapped in the course of the civil service

1997-99: APART-Fellowship in Stockholm and Vienna

2000: Habilitation in Observational Astrophysics

2001-2018: Associate Professor at Univ. Vienna

2019-: Full Prof. for Observational Astrphysics

2009-2011: Head of the Department of Astrophysics

2016-2020: Vice-Dean for Doctoral Studies

2020-2022: Dean for Doctoral Studies

2020-2022: Director of Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences

2022-2024: Vicedean of Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy

Founder of Austrian Society for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Member of EAS and IAU (currently organising committee of G3 Stellar Evolution)

1999-2001: Member of ESAs Astronomy Working Group, deputy-head in 2001

2015-: ESO Scientific Technical Committee; 2015-: Alma European Science Advisory Committee; 2015: ESO Observing Programmes Committee

2005-: Multiple-Vice Chair, panellist, observer for FP6, FP7, H2020 MSC and other EU actions

Referee for funding organisations: DFG, SNSF, NASA, IAC, KUL, FSU, CTH, …

Referee for journals: A&A, ApJ, MNRAS, Nature, …

Vice-chair SOC, editor of proceedings at ASP, chair or member LOC for "Why galaxies care about AGB stars I (2006), II (2010),III (2014), and IV IAU S344

SOC: Pro Scientia Summer Academies 1997-2018

NOC, LOC: 30. General Assembly of the IAU 2018

Participation in several other SOCs and LOCs ...

1997: APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Funding from bm:bwk, bm:vit, bm:WA; Erste; ESA:Prodex, ESA:SI, FP6: ERA-NET, fwf, ffg:ASAP, NÖ, ÖFG, ÖNB, ÖAW, RUAG, Wien Kultur (during the last 20 years more than 4M€)

Lectures since 1994 are found via this link.Lists of promoted Bachelor-, Master- and PhD theses.