1984 - 1992 Study of business informatics, major in business and administrative informatics at the University of Linz, Master in Computer Science and Economics
1984 - 1992 Partial study of business education at the University of Linz
1992 - 1998 Doctoral studies in social and economic sciences at the  University of Linz, PhD in Social and Economic Sciences
2001 Venia Docendi in Man-Machine Interatction at the University of Linz

1992 - 1994 Junior research assistant at the pilot project "Computer science for the blind" at the University of Linz
1995 - 1999 Junior research assistant at the pilot project "Computer science for the blind" at the University of Linz
2000 - 2000 Senior research assistant at the Austrian Wide Institute for Information Systems to Support Visually Impaired Students at the University of Linz
2001 - 2004 Assistant professor at the Austrian Wide Institute for Information Systems to Support Visually Impaired Students at the University of Linz
2005 - 2016 Deputy head of the institute Integriert Studieren at the University of Linz
2017 - dato Head of the institute Integriert Studieren at the University of Linz

Member of the Austrian Computer Society, chair of the working group "ICT for/with people with disabilities
Founder and chair of the association BookAccess, opens an external URL in a new window 
Founder and chair of the association ICCHP, opens an external URL in a new window 
Founder and chair of the Kompetenznetzwerk KI-I, opens an external URL in a new window
Founder and chair of the association ICC international
Founder and chair of the association ICC Austria