Associate Professor and Head of the Institute of Public International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law of the Johannes Kepler University Linz (since 2009)

• 2002 - 2009 Deputy Head of the Institute of Public International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law of the Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Visiting Professor to De Montfort University Leicester, University of Glasgow, Koc University, University of Victoria, IUC Dubrovnik, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
• 2002 - 2007 Ad personam Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission
• 1995 - 2003 Member of the Board of Directors and member of the faculty of the Postgraduate Courses in European Law
• 1997 Appointment as an university lecturer with the official title "Extraordinary professor"
• 1993 - 1997 Lecturer, European Law and Public International Law, Johannes Kepler University of Linz
• 1992 - 1999 SOCRATES student exchange coordinator, Faculty of Laws
• 1988 - 1993 Research Assistant at the Institute of Public International Law and International Relations of the Johannes Kepler University Linz

• Member of the European Air Law Association (EALA), London (since 1997)
• Member of the Air Law Forum (Deutsches Luftrechtsforum; since 2015)
• Member of the German Society for International Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht; since 2002)
• Member of the Board of Editors of the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Politics (CYELP; since 2003)
• Member of the Board of Editors, Austrian Review of International and European Law (ARIEL; since 2008)
• Member of the National Commission for International Humanitarian Law at the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (since 2010)
• Vice President of the Austrian Society of European Law (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europarecht; since 2013)
• Member of the Board of the Austrian Society of European Law (Präsidialrat der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Europarecht; 2003 to 2012)
• Theoretical Knowledge Instructor Air Law, ATO AeronautX GmbH, Blue Danube Airport Linz
• Commissioned Officer (LtCol) & Legal Adviser (Art 82 AP I 1977 to the Geneva Conventions 1949) in the Austrian Armed Forces Reserve

• Quelle Science Award (Quelle-Wissenschaftspreis; 1991)
• Talent Sponsorship Award for Science of the Provincial Government of Upper Austria for publications 1988 - 1991 (Talentförderungsprämie Wissenschaft des Landes Oberösterreich; 1991)
• Kardinal-Innitzer-Sponsorship-Award of the Archdioecesis Vienna (Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis der Erzdiözese Wien; 1998)

• Driving licence, categories A (motorcycles) and B
• Private Pilot Licence (PPL) and Radio Operator's General Certificate, ICAO language proficiency in English and German level 6 (native speaker)
• Married, two daughters
• Hobbies: aviation, music (keyboard, organ); sports (aviation; running, up to half-marathon)