1980 | Magister (M.A.), Social and Economic Statistics, University of Vienna |
1981-1982 | Research Assistant, Population Studies Center/Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
1982 | M.A., Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
1983 | Ph.D. (with distinction), Demography, University of Pennsylvania |
1983-1985 | Research Associate, Demographic Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer in Social and Economic Statistics, University of Vienna |
1984 | Visiting Scholar, World Fertility Survey, London |
since 1984 | Employed at IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg |
1988 | Habilitation, Demography and Social Statistics, University of Vienna |
since 1988 | Leader, World Population Program, IIASA, Laxenburg |
1995-1998 | Research Director, Austrian Institute for Family Studies, Vienna |
1998-2001 | Secretary General, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) |
1999-2004 | Scientific Coordinator, EU Observatory for the Social Situation, Demography and the Family |
2001-2002 | Initiator and Coordinator, Global Science Panel on Population and Environment |
since 2002 | Director, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
2007 | Senior Visiting Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University |
2002-2009 | Deputy Chair, Board of Directors and Chair of the Scientific Program Committee, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kairo |
2003-2008 | Member, Board of Directors (Kuratorium), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock |
since 2008 | Full Professor of Social and Economic Statistics (part time), Vienna University of Economics and Business |
2011 | Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU) |