| 1978 | Ph.D., University of Vienna |
| 1979-1989 | Research Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 1980-1998 | Lecturer, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt and University of Vienna |
| 1986-1987 | Visiting Professor, University of Bamberg |
| 1986 | , 1989 and 1997-1998 Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1988-1989 | Visiting Professor, University of Frankfurt am Main |
| 1989-1997 | Lecturer, Technical University, Vienna |
| 1990-1992 | Director, Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Science |
| 1992 | Visiting Professor, University of Zurich |
| 1992-2003 | Head, Department of Demography, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 1995 | , 1997 Visiting Professor, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt |
| 2000-2001 | Visiting Professor, University of Vienna |
| 2001-2002 | Senior Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics of Finance, Technical University, Vienna |
| since 2003 | Senior Fellow, HWWI - Hamburg Institute of International Economics |
| since 2005 | Senior Researcher, Erste Group Bank AG |
| 2008-2010 | Member, Reflection Group Horizon 2020-2030, European Union |
| since 2009 | Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Center, Washington, D.C. |
| since 2010 | Visiting Professor, University of St. Gallen |
| Member of the Advisory Committee, Alpbach Financial Market Symposium, Vienna |
| | Studium der Soziologie, Ökonomie und Statistik an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main |
| | Promotion an der Universität Mannheim |
| | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im SPES-Projekt |
| | Gründungsmitglied, Projektleiter und Projektbereichsleiter im Sonderforschungsbereich "Mikroanalytische Grundlagen der Gesellschaftspolitik" der Universitäten Frankfurt a. M. und Mannheim |
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| | Vizepräsident der International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) |
| | Vorstand der Sektion Soziale Indikatoren der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie |
| | President der Working Group "Social Indicators" der International Sociological Association |
| | Member des Editorial Board der Zeitschriften "Social Indicators Research" und "Applied Research in Quality of Life" |
| 1967-1978 | Student, University of Salzburg |
| 1971 | Teaching Qualification, University of Salzburg |
| 1979 | Doctorate, Political Sciences, Educational Sciences, Psychology, University of Salzburg |
| 1971-1979 | Teacher, , University of Salzburg |
| 1979-1986 | Self-Employed Researcher and Science Adviser, Habilitation Project And Treatise, Vienna and Salzburg |
| 1986 | Abilitation, University of Innsbruck |
| 1986-2005 | Co-Principal, Ludwig Boltzmann Intitute for Occupational and Leisure Research, Salzburg and Vienna |
| since 1995 | University Professor,University of Innsbruck |
| 2005-2013 | Principal, Center for Futures Studies - Forschung Urstein GmbH, Salzburg |
| Co-Coordinator, Doctorate Program "Future: Development:Quality Of Life", University of Innsbruck |
| since 2010 | Co-Founder and Lecturer, Master-Program "Futures Studies", Free University Of Berlin |
| since 2013 | Co-Founder and Co-Editor, European Journal of Futures Research, Springer Open, Heidelberg |
| Guest Researcher, Free University of Berlin |
| since 2017 | Professor, Futures Studies And Innovation; Principal, Institute for Futures Research In Human Sciences, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna |
