| 1995-1997 | Chairman, Austrian National Students Union, Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| 1997-2000 | Research Assistant, Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| 2000-2005 | Managing Director, legend Consulting GmbH |
| 2006-2010 | Founder and Managing Director, Pleon Publico Public Relations & Lobbying |
| 2011-2012 | Founder and Managing Director, cumclave Unternehmensberatung |
| 2011-2014 | Managing Director, Tauern Holding |
| 2014-2017 | State Secretary, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy |
| since 2017 | Austrian Federal Minister of Science, Research and Economy |
| 1987 | Skilled Worker, RFT Fernmeldewerk Leipzig, Development Department |
| 1988-1991 | Assistant Worker, Department of Electronics, University of Technology Leipzig |
| 1990 | Practical Course, Westinghouse Controlmatic GmbH, Frankfurt a. M. |
| 1991 | Master, Engineering in Electronics, University of Technology Leipzig |
| 1991-1994 | Research Assistant, BMBF funded projects GOSLER and FABEL, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Technology Leipzig |
| 1992-1998 | Professional Services (Technical Development) |
| 1993 | Development Engineer, Horiba LTD, Automotive Instruments Development Department, Kyoto |
| 1994 | Ph.D. Studies, Department of Computer Science, Boston University |
| 1994-1996 | Research Assistant, BMBF funded project FABEL, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg |
| 1996-1998 | Research Associate and Instructor, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld |
| 1997 | Ph.D., University of Kaiserslautern |
| 1998-1999 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| 1999 | Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| 2000-2005 | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| since 2000 | Core Cognitive Science Faculty, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| 2001-2009 | Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Informatics, Indiana University,Bloomington (IN) |
| 2005-2009 | Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| 2007 | Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington (IN) |
| 2009-2013 | Adjunct Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| since 2009 | Adjunct Professor, Department of Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| 2009-2013 | Victor H. Yngve Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| 2010 | Visiting Professor, Reporting Branch, Office of Extramural Research, NIH |
| 2011 | Visiting Scientist, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) |
| since 2012 | Visiting Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam |
| since 2013 | Victor H. Yngve Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN) |
| since 2015 | Visiting Professor, Mercator Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2000 | DAAD-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2001-2002 | Post-doctoral Fellow, IWT Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University |
| 2003-2003 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago |
| 2002-2005 | Junior Research Group, Bielefeld University |
| 2005-2013 | Senior Research Scientist, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig |
| 2012 | Professor, Martin Luther University Halle |
| since 2013 | Professor, University of Jena; UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig |
| 2002 | Dr. rer. nat. in Biology, LMU Munich |
| 2003-2005 | Postdoc, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
| 2005-2006 | Postdoc, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 2006-2008 | Visiting Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY |
| 2007-2011 | Researcher, LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich |
| since 2010 | Visiting Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY |
| 2011 | Habilitation in Ecology, LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich |
| 2011-2013 | Principal Investigator (DFG), Technical University of Munich |
| 2013-2014 | Assistant Professor, Technical University of Munich |
| since 2014 | Heisenberg Professor of Ecological Novelty, Freie Universität & IGB Berlin |
| 2002 | BA, Journalism and Literature, Carleton University, Ottawa |
| 2004 | MSc., Social Anthropology, London School of Economics |
| 2008 | PhD., Sociology, London School of Economics |
| 2008-2009 | ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Oxford |
| 2008-2010 | James Martin Research Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford |
| 2010-2014 | Lecturer, Sociology (Assistant Professor), University of Essex |
| since 2013 | Co-director, CRESI Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation, University of Essex |
| 2014-2017 | Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Essex |
| since 2017 | Reader, Sociology, University of Essex |
| 1993 | PhD, Zoology & Botany, University of Vienna |
| 1993-1994 | Freshwater consultant, Rwanda and Uganda, Africa |
| 1994-1996 | Postdoctoral fellow, University of Vienna |
| 1996-1999 | Assistant professor, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich |
| 1999-2007 | Group leader, EAWAG, Dübendorf |
| 2002 | JSPS Fellow, Sendai, Japan |
| 2004-2005 | Guest scientist, Cary-Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook |
| since 2005 | Titulary Professorship, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich |
| 2007-2016 | Director, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin |
| since 2007 | Professor, Aquatic Ecology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| since 2016 | President, FWF Austrian Science Fund, Vienna |
| since 2017 | Chairman, OeAWI - Austrian Agency for Research Integrity, Vienna |
