1967–1973:                   Study of Geography, German, and Philosophy at the University of Salzburg, Austria

1973:                            Graduation and conferment of the doctor’s degree (title of the doctoral thesis: “Methodological Problems in Geography. A Contribution to the Assessment of the Position of Complex Geography.”)

1986:                            Conferment of the postdoctoral lecturing qualification (title of the habilitation treatise: “Residential Preferences in the City of Salzburg”)

1989:                            Appointment as regular member of the Deutsche Akademie für Landeskunde (German Academy for Regional Science)

1993:                            Conferment of the title of "Außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor" (associate professor)

1997–2004:                   Member of the editorial board of the journal "Ethics, Place and Environment"

1998 - 2005:                  Member of the "Scientific Advisory Board" of the Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung, Hannover, Germany (ARL – Academy for Regional Science and Regional Planning)

since 2003:                   Member of the editorial boards of the series “Gesellschaft, Kultur und Raum. Neue sozialgeographische Bibliothek” (“Society, Culture, and Space. New Social Geographical Library”) and “Sozialgeographie kompakt” (“Social Geography Condensed”)

1973:                            Assistant professor at the Department of Geology and Paleontology, University of Salzburg

1975–1980:                   Assistant professor at the Department of Geography, University of Munich, Germany

1980:                            Assistant professor at the Department of Geography, University of Salzburg

Nov. 1983–Feb. 1984:     Visiting professor at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research, Berlin

Summer term of 1985:    Visiting professor at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH), Switzerland

1986:                            University lecturer

1993:                            Conferment of the title of “Associate Professor”

1997:                            Associate professor at the Department of Geography, University of Salzburg

1990–1998:                   Head of the Department of Human Ecology at the Department of Geography, University of Salzburg

1992–2004:                   Chairman of the Board of SIR (Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung und Wohnen (Salzburg Institute of Spatial Planning and Housing)

Sept. 1999:                   Visiting professor at the Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Policy Sciences, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

Oct. 2000 - Sept 2012:   Full professor for Human Geography at the Department of Geography and Regional Science, University of Vienna

1988: Prize of the Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg (Cultural Funds of the City of Salzburg);

1990: Appointment as Fellow of the Institute, Institute for Human Ecology, Sonoma, Cal., USA;

1996: Walter-Christaller-Award for Applied Geography

2001: Prize for the lecture “Spatial Identity” as “Lecture of High Innovative Potential” by the University of Vienna

2004: Appointment as honorary member of the Salzburg Institute of Spatial Planning and Housing