Irmgard Marboe is Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law, Section for Public International Law and International Relations, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna since 2007. She studied law and Roman languages at the University of Vienna (Austria) and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Her doctoral thesis (1994) dealt with legal aspects of cultural subsidies under European Community Law (State aid, prohibition of discrimination, tax issues). After her maternal leave (two children), she returned to the university and henceforth focused on international law. Her post-doctoral thesis (“habilitation”), entitled “Die Berechnung von Entschädigung und Schadenersatz in der internationalen Rechtsprechung”, was published by Peter Lang in 2009. An abridged version in English with the focus on investment law was published by Oxford University Press in 2009 (“Calculation of Compensation and Damages in International Investment Law”). As associate editor of the online journal Transnational Dispute Management (TDM), she edited a special issue on “Compensation and Damages in International Investment Arbitration”.

Other publications dealt with international relations and Islamic law as well as with the relationship of religion, law and the State. Since 2008, she is the director of the Vienna International Christian-Islamic Summer University, financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and organised under the auspices of the University of Vienna. It takes place on a biannual basis in Stift Altenburg, Lower Austria (see www.vicisu.com).

Another research interest is the international law of outer space. She has published on telecommunication and outer space, national space legislation, authorization issues and soft law in outer space. Since 2009, she is the head of the Austrian National Point of Contact for Space Law (NPOC) of the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (see www.spacelaw.at). She was actively involved in the elaboration of the Austrian Outer Space Act which entered into force on 28 December 2011.

At the Vienna Faculty of Law, she is the coordinator of 130 places at more than 50 universities under the European academic exchange programme ERASMUS. She is a member of the European Society of International Law, the International Law Association (member of the ILA Committee on Islamic Law and International Law, and the ILA Committee on Space Law), the Academic Council of the United Nations System, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht, the Austrian Society of European Law, the International Institute of Space Law, the International Academy of Astronautics, and a corresponding member of the Advisory Board of the European Forum Alpbach. She has been nominated by the Austrian government as a specialised arbitrator to the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes Relating to Outer Space Activities. Since 2012, she is a member of the Arbitration Commission of the University of Vienna.

Her current teaching activities include lectures, courses and seminars on general international law, international courts and tribunals, and space law in German and English. At the Danube University in Krems, Lower Austria, she teaches introduction to public international law and the law of diplomatic and consular relations. She speaks German (mother tongue), English, French, Spanish and Italian.