1975-1982

• study of Palaeontology and Botany at the University of Vienna.
• 1978/79
• 6 months study at the Maximilians-University in Munich.
• 1982
• PhD graduation.
• 1979-2002
• scientific staff member of the Museum of Natural History Vienna.
• Research focus: Neogene floras of Austria; Tertiary vegetation history of Eurasia.
• 1986
• scientific concept of the exhibition "350 Millionen Jahre Wald" (together with Harald Walther, Dresden); presentation in ten different museums in Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany.
• As curator new and computer-aided arrangement of the whole scientific palaeobotanical collection.
• Change of the traditional palaeontological collection file into a computer aided database.
• Leader of the project Palaeontological Types in Austrian Collections - scientific database management (until 2002).
• Since 1989
• lectures at the universities of Vienna, Graz and Salzburg.
• 1991
• organization of the first Pan-European Palaeobotanical Conference in Vienna.
• 1996
• Venia legendi for palaeobotany.
• 1997
• guest professor at the Karl-Franzens University Graz.
• Since 2002
• director of the Staatliche Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart.
• Since 2004
• lectures at the universities of Tübingen, Stuttgart an Stuttgart Hohenheim.