Deputy Head of Department at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research (Department of Agriculture, Environment and Food Systems), Vienna/AT (since 2019)
Research associate at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Vienna/AT (since 2019)
Head of Department at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics (Department of Methodology, Data Preparation and Models), Vienna/AT (2015-2018)
Research associate at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Vienna/AT (2006-2018)
Research associate at the Technical University of Munich/DE (Environmental Economics and Agricultural Policy Group) (2003-2005)
Doctoral studies of Economics at the Technical University of Munich/DE (Dr. rer. pol. 2012)
Studies of Agricultural Economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna/AT (DI 2002)
Foreign Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth/UK (February - June 2002)
Main fields of work:
- Economic and statistical analyses
- Development of econometric models, mathematical programming models, simulation models etc.
- Analyses of the impacts of changes in agricultural policy and other factors on the agricultural sector or on farms
- Agricultural economic analyses on research questions related to agriculture, environment and food systems (e.g., provision of public goods and of ecosystem services by agriculture, interactions between land use and the environment)
- Elaboration of forecasts of unpaid farm labour in agriculture in the context of the Economic Accounts for Agriculture using econometric models
- Evaluation (measures of the rural development programme, national strategy of operational programmes of producer organisations)
- Risk management in agriculture, income stabilisation
- Industrial organization analyses (e.g., spatial competition of food processors)
Participation in committees:
- Participation in working groups, e.g., of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Tourism (e.g., evaluation)
- Participation of Statistics Austria (Economic Accounts for Agriculture)
- Participation in international working parties (e.g., OECD)