Born in Horn, Lower Austria in 1972.
Married. Three children.

Education and Professional Career:

• since 2004: Full Professor of West Slavic Linguistics at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2003 - 2004: Assistant Professor of West Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2003: Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in West Slavic Linguistics at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2000 - 2003: Postdoc Researcher in the FWF project P13857–G03 on Czech-German-Slovak language contact at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 1997 - 2003: Lecturer at the Department of Slavonic Studies and Department for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 1999 - 2000: Tutor of Pedagogy at the Department of Education Sciences at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 1998 - 1999: Teacher of Czech and English at the HTBLA and HBLA in Hollabrunn (Austria)
• 1997 - 1998: Doctoral studies (Dr. phil.) in Czech Studies and Pedagogy at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 1997 - 1998: Pre-doc Researcher in the research project "Sprachpolitik und Sprachwirklichkeit in den slawischsprachigen Provinzen der Habsburgermonarchie von Maria Theresia bis 1914" at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna (project leaders: Prof. Michael Metzeltin and Prof. Rosita Schjerve-Rindler) (Austria)
• 1992 - 1996: Graduate degree (Mag. phil.) in Slavonic Studies, English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Vienna (Austria)
• 1991: Summer school for Czech Language, Literature and Culture, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
• 1983 – 1991: Grammar school Humanistisches Gymnasium Zwettl, Lower Austria
• 1979 – 1983: Primary school Volksschule Groß Gerungs, Lower Austria

Personal Website

• West Slavic linguistics (contact linguistics, language geography, historical sociolinguistics)
• History of language contact between Slavic languages, German and Hungarian
• Central Europe as a language area – Austriacisms and internationalisms
• Czech and Slovak National Revival and the role of Vienna
• Language education in the Habsburg monarchy

Overview of Research Projects

• since 4/2018: Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• since 4/2014: Corresponding Member in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  
• since 4/2010: Member of the Academy Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)

• 7 August 2024: Award of the Distinguished Contribution to Diplomacy Medal from the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 11 October 2023: Premia Bohemica for the year 2023 for the outstanding contribution to the promotion of Czech literature abroad
• 25 April 2017: Josef Dobrovský Honorary Medal for Merit in Philological and Philosophical Sciences of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 22 June 2001: Innovative Teaching Award of the University of Vienna

• 2022 – 2026: Member of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria)
  
• 2022 – 2025: Member of the International Board of Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
• 2013 – 2025: Member of the Science Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
• 2022 – 2026: Member of the Science Council of the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
  
• 2022 – 2024: Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2018 – 2022: Deputy Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2010 – 2016: Chairperson of the Curriculum Committee of the Senate of the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2009 – 2016: Member of the Senate of the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2009 – 2013: Chairperson of the Steering Group for Teacher Education of the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2005 – 2008: Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
• 2004 – 2005: Deputy Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)

Overview of all Administrative Duties (in German)

Participation in Appointment Comittees and Boards of Post Doctoral Qualification at the University of Vienna

Course Overview

Overview of Journal Editing Roles