born in 1951

1969 – 1973: Studying Zoology with special regard to Parasitology, and Organic Chemistry.
1973: Completing the PhD in Parasitology with a study on Hepatozoon species Protozoa: Apicomplexa) of the Eastern Alpine micromammalia.
1991: Venia docendi for Zooloy (University of Vienna).
2006: Professorship.
Since 1991 teaching Parasitology for Anthropologists and Zoologists at the University of Vienna, Dept. of Anthropology and Dept. of  Zoology.

Scientific fieldwork (Malacology) in Austria, Hungary, Greece, the Western USA and the Lesser Antilles.
 

Awards

1986: Awarding of the “Anerkennungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Wissenschaft”.
1988: Awarding of the “R. Liepold-Preis der Internat. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Donauforschung”.

About 180 scientific publications: about 20 on endoparasites of micromammalia and birds in Eastern Austria (1976 – 1980), the main part of the papers on recent and quaternary  Malacology (since 1975).

2006: Publication of the monograph “Plio-pleistozäne und holozäne Mollusken Österreichs”, 860 pp, 62 tab., 305 maps, 121 figs., Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; http://hw.oeaw.ac.at / 3674 – 3, http:// verlag.oeaw.ac.at:

In addition to the results of palaeontology, palaeobotany, sedimentology, archaeology and prehistory, the research into plio-pleistocene and holocene mollusca became more important. Mollusca are very suitable for the reconstruction of former environments, because of the fact that faunal development corresponds to that of vegetation and climate. Since the quaternary malacofauna consists mainly of species also represented in the recent fauna, the knowledge on their present-day requirements is a fundamental condition.

In addition, molluscan assemblages can give evidence of anthropogenic impacts on the landscape. Some species have chronostratigraphic importance.

This book gives a complex of information on the quaternary mollusca of Austria. It is based on the material from more than 170 palaeontological and archaeological sites, altogether more than one million specimens.

Contents: Register and brief description of the localities; description of morphology and biology of all species as well as their appearance in the different localities and layers; zoogeographical patterns; a comprehensive summing up of the literature; an analysis of development and features of the malacofauna during the holocene; an attempt to correlate with malacological data and biozones described in different European countries; a catalogue of all recent mollusca of Austria.