Main research areas:
Austrian and European environmental economics, agricultural sociology, agricultural economics,
climate change, inter- and transdisciplinary methods
Languages:
German, English
Career
- since 2024 Professor of Sustainability, Climate Change and Human Behaviour, University of Graz, Institute of Environmental Systems Science
- 2017 - 2024 Senior Scientist, BOKU Vienna
- 2023 Visiting researcher, L'Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, France.
- 2022 Habilitation at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna; authorisation to teach environmental economics and environmental sociology
- 2022 Visiting researcher at the University of Hamburg - KlimaCampus Hamburg
- 2016 - 2017 Research Assistant Professor at the New Mexico State University, USA
- 2011 - 2016 Research Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU Vienna
- 2011 - 2015 Doctoral studies as part of the Doctoral Programme Sustainable Development (dokNE), BOKU Vienna
- 2009 - 2011 Research assistant at the Institute for Spatial Planning and Rural Reorganisation, BOKU Vienna
- 2007 - 2009 Employee at the Federal Institute "Statistics Austria", Directorate of Spatial Economics
- 2006 Degree in Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- 2006 Degree in Landscape Planning and Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Awards and honours
- 2018 Award: Best lecture at the annual conference of the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics
- Year: 2017 Award: BOKU Talent Award
- Year: 2017 Award: Klaus Fischer Innovation Award for Technology and Environment
- Year: 2017 Award: UV research grant
- Year: 2016 Award: 1st prize at the 10th CAS Semester Touchdown
- Year: 2016 Award: Agrana research grant
- Year: 2016 Award: Award of the Austrian Hail Insurance
- Year: 2016 Award: Scientific Award of the Vienna Environmental Protection Department (MA 22)
- Year: 2006 Award: Recognition Award of the Dr Maria Schaumayer Foundation
- Year: 2006 Award: Sponsorship award from the Dr Karl Schleinzer Foundation
- Year: 2006 Award: Sponsorship award from the Austrian Association of Municipalities and the Austrian Association of Towns and Cities
- Year: 2006 Award: Dr Tyczka Energy Prize of the Tyczka Energy Foundation in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences
- Year: 2006 Award: TGB Science Prize
- Year: 2006 Award: Prize of the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics