Educational Experience
1969 - 1973 Attended Volksschule (1st to 4th grade) in Steyr
  1973-1981 Attended Grammer School, (5th to 12th grade) in Steyr,
  20-06-1981 General Certificate of Education (High School Diploma)
  01-10-1981-01-07-1987 Studied technical Physics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz; Master Thesis at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University Linz
1987-1991 PhD cousrse in Physics
01-07-1991 Last PhD exam

Professional Experience
01-07-1984 - 31-08-1984 Bimonthly training at the Electricité de France, Nice
01-07-1985 - 30-10-1985 Working on a CAD Program for the GFM Steyr
01-07-1986 - 30-06-1987 Working as an Instructor at the Institute für theoretical Physics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz;
15-09-1987 - 31-08-1991 Working as assistant professor at the Institut for Experimental Physics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz;
01-06-1990 - 01-10-1990 Research Work at the Technical University at Tampere in Finland with Prof. M. Pessa
01-12-1991 - 30-11-1992 Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Bellcore, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA with Prof. D. E. Aspnes
01-02-1993 - 30-09-1993 During my civil service appointment I have been working with mentally handicapped people at the "Lebenshilfe St. Florian"
01-04-1993 - 31-12-1994 Group Leader for R&D in renewable energy applications in a professional engineers office (Energieinstitut)
01-01-1995 – 30-09-1998 Senior Scientist for optical and physical measurement techniques in at PROFACTOR,
01-10-1998 - 30-09- 2001 on leave from Profactor for Habilitation
01-10-2001-31-12-2002 scientific adviser for the the managing director and the board of PROFACTOR; work in photonics
from 01-01-2003 on head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Surface Optics and Photonics
from 15-2-2008 on head of the institute for surface and nanoanalytics at the Johannes Kepler University in Austria
from 01-7-2008 on full professor, chair of material science

Awards: Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1990),
Schrödinger Award of the Austrian Science Foundation (1992),
Upper Austrian Science Award 1994
ECO-Design Price of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Technology 1995
Umweltschutzpreis des Landes Oberösterreich für Intelligente Recyclingprodukte 1995
                   AVL List Award for Applied Physics 1998
                   APART Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1998

1990
Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1992
Schrödinger Award of the Austrian Science Foundation
1994
Upper Austrian Science Award
1995
ECO-Design Price of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Technology
1995
Umweltschutzpreis des Landes Oberösterreich für Intelligente Recyclingprodukte
1998
AVL List Award for Applied Physics
1998
APART Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences