| 1961 | A.B. (Applied Physics), Harvard College |
| 1966 | Ph.D. (Physics), University of Tennessee (National Science Foundation Fellow) |
| 1972-1974 | Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico |
| 1974-1975 | Visiting Scientist, Kernforschungsanlage Jülich, Germany |
| 1966-1992 | Research and management positions, Sandia National Laboratories |
| 1993-1995 | Deputy Head of Site, Garching Joint Work Site, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project, Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany |
| 1996-2003 | Deputy Director, Physical, Chemical and Nano Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM USA |
| 2004-2005 | Senior Manager for Energy Technology and Systems and Deputy to the Vice-President for Science, Technology and Research Foundations |
| since 2006 | Consultant |
| 1972-1974 | Research Fellow, University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
| 1974-1986 | Research Fellow, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin |
| 1986-1989 | Expert, SPRINT Programme, European Commission and Innovation |
| 1990-1997 | Secretary General, TII-European Association for the Transfer of Technologies, Innovation and Industrial Information |
| 1994-1999 | Secretary General, FEICRO-Federation of European Cooperative Research Organisations |
| 2000-2007 | Deputy Secretary General and Advisor, European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) |
| since 2007 | Secretary General, European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) |
| | Studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Graz |
| 1966 | Joined AVL, a company for design and development of internal combustion engines, founded by his father in 1948 |
| 1967 | Graduation in mechanical engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz; Head of blood gas analysers development project, in cooperation with Prof. Karl Harnoncourt |
| 1969 | Responsible for the production of electronic and precision instruments and prototype engines; Introduction of product management, better market orientation of product development and set up of a network of representatives in import and export markets |
| 1970 | Vice President AVL - Head of Instrumentation Division |
| since 1979 | Chairman and CEO, AVL List GmbH |
| 1984-1986 | President, Austrian Physical Society |
| since 1992 | Honorary Consul, Republic of Korea for Styria; Chairman, Research and Technology Committee, Federation of Austrian Industry |
| 1994-1997 | Member, IRDAC Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee for the EU, Brussels |
| 1994-2003 | Board of Directors, VOEST Alpine Technologies |
| 1995 | Elected Fellow, SAE Society of Automotive Engineers |
| 1997-1998 | Chairman, IRDAC Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee, Brussels |
| since 1998 | Member of European Forum Alpbach |
| 1998-2002 | Member, EAG European Advisory Group "Land transport and marine technology" |
| 1998-2004 | Board of Directors, AMS Austria Micro Systems |
| 2000 | Foreign Associate, NAE National Academy of Engineering; Chairman, AEBF V Asia Europe Business Forum V |
| 2001-2007 | Member, EURAB I and II European Research Advisory Board of the EU, Brussels |
| 2001-2008 | Chairman, EARPA European Automotive Research Partners Association, Brussels |
| 2002-2006 | Chairman, SSTAG Sustainable Surface Transport Advisory Group, Brussels |
| 2002-2010 | Vice-Chairman, ERTRAC Road Transport Research Advisory Council, Brussels |
| 2003-2013 | Chairman, University Board, Graz University of Technology, Graz |
| since 2007 | Chairman, Austrian-Russian Business Council |
| 1978-1985 | Studium der Nachrichtentechnik an der Technischen Universität Wien |
| 1985 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Österreichischen Forschungszentrum Seibersdorf (ÖFZS) |
| 1990 | Dissertation an der Technischen Universität Wien |
| seit 1992 | Lehrbeauftragter an der Technischen Universität Wien |
| 1993-2000 | Associate Editor der Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on EMC, New York |
| 1994 | Leiter der Abteilung Industrielle Elektronik im ÖFZS |
| 1999 | Habilitation für das Fachgebiet "Elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit" an der Technischen Universität Wien |
| 2000 | Leiter des Geschäftsbereiches Informationstechnologien/Seibersdorf research |
| seit 2002 | Geschäftsführer Advanced Computer Vision GmbH |
| seit 2003 | Prokurist Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC |
| 1996 | Doktorat, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| 1997 | Forschungsassistent, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| 1998 | Post-Doc, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon |
| 1999-2000 | Forschungsassistent, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| 2001 | Habilitation Experimentalphysik, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| seit 2001 | ao. Universitätsprofessor, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| 2002 | Gastprofessor, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon |
| 2003 | Gastprofessor, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 |
| seit 2007 | Leiter des Instituts für Nanostrukturierte Materialien und Photonik, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Weiz |
| 1973 | Diploma Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 1976 | Ph.D., Biophysics, University of Konstanz |
| 1976-1977 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz |
| 1977-1980 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ulm |
| 1980-1981 | Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Research Laboratory, San José, CA |
| 1981 | Visiting Scientist, Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble |
| 1981-1986 | Assistant Professor, Technical University of Munich |
| 1985 | Visiting Scientist, IBM Research Laboratory, San José, CA |
| 1986 | Postdoctoral Degree: "Habilitation" - Physics, Technical University of Munich |
| 1986-1991 | Young Investigator/Associate Professor, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz |
| 1988 | Visiting Scientist, Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ |
| 1990 | Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Chem. & Nuc. Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1990-1991 | Visiting Professor, University of Erlangen |
| 1991-1999 | Head of Laboratory, Exotic Nano-Materials, Frontier Research Program, RIKEN-Institute, Japan |
| since 1992 | Consulting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
| 1993-2008 | Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz |
| since 1998 | Professor (by Courtesy) Chemistry Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| since 1999 | Adjunct Professor, Hanyang University, Korea |
| 1999-2003 | Temasek Professor, National University of Singapore |
| 2004-2013 | Visiting Principal Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore |
| since 2008 | Scientific Managing Director, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna |
| since 2009 | Honorary Professor, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
| Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
