| 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) |
| 1995-1998 | Messeorganisation Vertrieb, Gulet Touropa Touristik |
| 1998-2002 | Marketing, Vertriebscontrolling, TUI Österreich |
| 2002-2003 | Markting, Sportsponsoring, Magic Life International |
| 2003-2005 | Vertriebscontrolling, Bentour International Reisen GmbH |
| 2006-2009 | Entwicklung des Geschäftsmodells von oruvision |
| seit 2009 | Geschäftsführer der oruvision GmbH |
| 1984 | Promotion Dr. phil., Universität Salzburg |
| 1983-1988 | Innenpolitik-Redakteurin, Wiener Redaktion, Tiroler Tageszeitung, Wien |
| 1989-2004 | Innenpolitik-Redakteurin, DER STANDARD, Wien |
| 2004-2010 | Ressortleiterin Innenpolitik, Die Presse, Wien |
| 2010-2018 | Stellvertredende Chefredakteurin, KURIER, Wien |
| seit 2019 | Chefredakteurin, KURIER, Wien |
