| Nationality | Austrian |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of birth | January 17, 1972 |
| Place of birth | Wien Ottakring (Austria/EU) |
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| Phone | +49-331-7499351 Fax: +49-331-7499200 |
| 1978 - 1982 | Volksschule (Primary School), Vienna, Austria |
| 1982 - 1990 | Neusprachliches Gymnasium der Stiftung "Theresianische Akademie" (Secondary School), Vienna |
| May 1990 | Matura (Secondary School Diploma) |
| 1990 - 1996 | Study of Astronomy, University of Vienna |
| 1991 - 1995 | Study of Philosophy, Classical Archaeology and Classical Philology, University of Vienna |
| Autumn 1993 - Nov. 1995 | Master thesis in Astronomy |
| 1994 - 2000 | WWW administrator at the Inst. for Astronomy, Univ. of Vienna
Maintainer of the Stellar Activity WWW pages and the WWW student pages |
| October 1995 | Member of the LOC for IAU Symp. 176: Stellar Surface Structure |
| January 1996 | Graduation in Astronomy (MSc) |
| since 1996 | PhD thesis in Astronomy |
| Mar. - June 1996 Apr. - July 1997 June, July 1998 |
Several stays abroad (partly with ERASMUS) at St. Andrews University (SCO) with A. Collier Cameron, working with the Doppler imaging code DOTS |
| Aug. 1998 - June 1999 | Observation, data reduction, analysis and preparation for publication/WWW for the Vienna-KPNO Ca II H&K survey |
| Nov./Dec. 1998 | Participation in the MUSICOS 98 campaign |
| January 2001 - July 2002 | PhD position at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam |
| February 2001 - November 2002 | Web Editor of Astronomical Notes |
| since February 2001 | Participation in the STELLA project |
| April, May 2001 | visit at ESTEC/ESA (Netherlands), cooperating with Bernard Foing and Joana Oliveira. Data analysis for the MUSICOS 1998 campaign |
| since August 2001 | Automatic data reduction pipeline for STELLA; supervising A. Ritter |
| August 2001 - September 2002 | Participation in the organization of the 1st Potsdam Thinkshop on Sunspots and Starspots, May 6 - 10, 2002 (Member of the LOC; Co-editor of the conference proceedings) |
| February - November 2002 | Participation in the LBT/PEPSI project |
| March 2002 | Co-organizer of the first conference and exhibition on the number Pi ("Zirkumferenz"), Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany |
| October 2002, April 2003 and Jan. 2004 | visit at Konkoly Observatory (Budapest/Hungary), cooperating with Katalin Olah and Johanna Jurcsik |
| September 2004 | Co-organizer of the second interdisciplinary conference on the number Pi ("Zirkumferenz"), Waldsassen, Germany |
| Autumn 2004 | PhD promotion/defense |
Topic of PhD thesis: ''Covering a star spot cycle: Long timescale spot variations on the chromospherically active binary star EI Eridani''
Topic of master thesis: ''Halpha line profile variations in the chromospherically active binary stars AG Doradus and UX Fornacis''