Date of Birth:     January 10, 1962
Place of Birth:     St.Ulrich, Upper Austria
Nationality:     Austria

Education

1981     Graduation from Agricultural High School, St. Florian (A)

1982     Military Service

1988     UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES VIENNA, A
Diploma in Agronomy (degree of Dipl.-Ing.)
Thesis topic: Grain yield and quality of chemical wheat hybrids

1997     UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES VIENNA, A
Doctoral degree (Dr. rer.nat.trechn.)
Thesis topic: Genetic analysis of Fusarium head blight (scab) resistance in winter wheat by monosomic analysis

2001     UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES VIENNA, A
Habilitation in Plant Breeding
Topic: Genetic analysis of Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat by classical, cytogenetic and molecular tools

Career History

1988 - 1988     Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, BOKU, Vienna.
Part time research assistant in a soybean breeding project

1989 - 1990     Saatbau Linz, Breeding Station Reichersberg. Breeding of
wheat and oat cultivars

1990 - 1991     Austrian Service for Development Cooperation. Training for
a wheat improvement project in Uganda.

1995 - 1996     Visiting scientist at CIMMYT Mexico.

1991 - 1997    Institute of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, BOKU, Vienna.
Research Assistant (funded by FWF project) on wheat resistance breeding.

1998 - 1998     INSTITUTE FOR AGROBIOTECHNOLOGY (IFA-Tulln)
Post-Doc scientist (funded by FWF project) on molecular genetics of disease resistance of wheat.

Since 1999     INSTITUTE FOR AGROBIOTECHNOLOGY (IFA-Tulln). Group
Leader of the Laboratory on Plant Breeding at the Department of Biotechnology
in Plant Production, IFA-Tulln. Permanent staff position since Oct. 2001.
Responsible for several competitive grant funded diploma and doctoral students.
Teaching at BOKU Vienna: Resistance Breeding of Crop Plants, Molecular
Methods in Plant Breeding.