• Doctoral studies, Dr phil., at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Social Work in the Department of Social Pedagogical Family Sciences, University of Vechta, Germany (2016 - 2019)
• Studied Social Pedagogy/Social Work, Dipl. Sozpäd. (FH), at the University of Applied Sciences Coburg, Germany (1985 - 1989)
• Studied social pedagogy/social work at the University of Bamberg, Germany (1984 - 1985)

• Training as a sex educator at the Austrian Institute for Family Research (1994 - 1995), 162 units of 50 minutes each.
• Further training in interactional diagnostics and therapy in infancy and toddlerhood at the University Children's Hospital Graz, Department of Paediatric Psychosomatics and Paediatric Psychotherapy, 40 teaching units (with Dr. Marguerite Dunitz).

Projects | Research | Research foci (selection):

• Evaluations:
  • Childcare allowance and childcare allowance account (2002-2022)
  • Federal Child and Youth Welfare Act (2016-2018)
  • Child and youth welfare in Vorarlberg (2020-2022)
  • Funded family counselling (2019-2021)
  • Family court assistance (2023-2024)
  • Impact analysis of family policy measures (2013-2015)
• Violence in the family:
  • LeSuBiA - cross gender population survey on the impact of violence, Germay (scientivic advisrory board, since 2021)
  • Violence in parenting (2017-2019)
  • Prevalence of violence in Austria (2010-2011)
  • 20 years of the ban on violence in education (2008-2009)
  • Violence in the Family - Report on Violence 2001
• Prevention and sex education:
  • Standards of sex education WHO and BZgA (since 2008)
  • Training Matters - Competences of sex education professionals (2016-2017)
  • Sexual violence (Round Table Sexual Abuse Germany, 2009-2010)
  • Quality standards for sex education programmes (2021-2022)
  • Education and upbringing (2016-2017)
• Family research:
  • European Congresses on Family Sciences (organisation, 1997-2017)
  • Family Platform (EU project as part of the 7th Framework Programme, 2009-2011)
  • DigiGen - The impact of technological transformation on the digital generation (EU Horizon 2020 project, 2019-2022)
  • The European Observatory on the Social Situation, Demography and Familiy (EU Commission, 1998-2001)

Teaching and training activities (selection) :

• Management and trainer for sexual education training at the Trauma Institute Salzburg (since 2023).
• Trainer for the certificate course in sexual medicine at the Academy of Medical Doctors, Vienna (since 2021).
• Trainer on the practice-orientated sex education course at the Austrian Institute for Sexual Education, Vienna (since 2016).
• Trainer for the course on Conflict Management, Violence and Radicalisation Prevention at the Austrian Institute for Violence Prevention and Conflict Management (IFGK), Vienna (since 2014).
• Trainer on the sex education course at the Pro Juventute Academy Austria (2016 - 2023).
• Teaching at the University of Vechta, Germany, in the interdisciplinary profiling area. Topic: Sex education (2022 - 2023).
• Teaching at CAS Psychosocial Counselling on Sexuality and Sexual Health. Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland (2018 - 2021).
• Teaching at the University of Applied Sciences for Social Work, Vienna. Specialised elective subject: Sexuality (2006 - 2019).
• Trainer at ARGE Educational Counselling Training for Educational Counsellors and Adult Educators, Vienna (2005 - 2012).
• Management and trainer at LoveTalks training programme for sexual education. Austrian Institute for Family Research, Vienna (1994 - 2006).