Study of geology at the University of Innsbruck ( M. Sc. thesis) on the alteration of limestone associated with MVT-type lead-zinc mineralization (advisor: Prof. Rainer Brandner).
In 1993 Community Service.
In 1994 Ph. D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich on the Late Cretaceous-Miocene development and sequence stratigraphy of the Maiella carbonate platform margin, Central Italy (advisors: Prof. Daniel Bernoulli, Prof. Gregor Eberli, Dr. Maria Mutti).
Since october 1994 assistant at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology, University of Innsbruck.
Habilitation in June 2000: "Upper Cretaceous rudist formations of the Eastern Alps: Stratigraphy, sedimentology and models of development."