Born 1958 in Scheibbs, Lower Austria, school leaving exams 1977, diploma thesis 1981
('Microhardness and electrical resistivity of CuBe2 at low annealing temperatures').
Since 1982 educational and scientific assistant.
PhD thesis 1987 ('Hall effect in annealed CuBe2 and in a Cu-1.35at%Be alloy').
Further investigations of electronic Transport in metals and alloys at low temperatures,
development of 2 SQUID-picovoltmeters for the electrical measurement of dislocation densities in metals (cooperation with FSU Jena).
Since 1985 university assistant, 1996 assistant professor.

From 1982 to 2008 responsible for the in-house nitrogen- and air-liquifier,
increasing tasks in teaching and administration,
2003 - 2006 administrator of the Institut für Materialphysik,
since 2007 dedication for an official historical physics collection at the Faculty of Physics,
custodian of this collection.
2013 new showcases for a small representation room of the historical physics collection were aquired by a successful project.
Since 2010 historical talks on history of physics.
Since winter term 2013 lecture on History of Physics (including the development of physics at the University Vienna).