I am an evolutionary/institutional economist who works in the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics. After studying at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Mag.rer.soc.oec.), I completed the graduate programme in the Economics department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and got the first PhD in Ecological Economics worldwide.

After working as Lecturer (or rather Universitaetsassistentin) at my old Alma Mater in Vienna, I arrived in the UK in 2001. From April to July 2001 I visited the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. From August 2001 to August 2005 I worked as Lecturer in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, started a research group in Ecological Economics and coordinated the new MA in Ecological Economics. In Sept 2005 I worked in the Energy and Environment Programme at SPRU as Senior Fellow. In October 2008 I joined the Institute for the Environment and Regional Development at the Vienna University of Economics and Business as Full Professor.

What keeps me busy these days are (i) modelling of human behaviour and social institutions and (ii) sustainability appraisal. Current work includes the study of the adoption of environmental innovations, integrated appraisal of energy futures (in the South East of England and in Austria), the methodological foundations of multicriteria appraisal and the use agent-based modelling for explaining empirically observed behaviour-institutions relationships.

In the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) I am currently active as Chair of the Conference Committee and Vice-President.

Currently I serve as member of the editorial board of the journals ' Environmental Policy and Governance', Environmental Values and Ecological Economics.

Personally, I try to live lightly on this planet by cycling to work, eating local food and living in an eco-house. Though these flights are still dragging my record down.