1944 Born in Vienna, Austria

1970 MD degree

1973 DMD, Assistant at the University Hospital for Maxillofacial Surgery and other University Hospitals (Neurosurgery and ENT) of the University of Vienna as well as at Columbia University in New York

1979 DDS degree

1980 Qualification as University Lecturer for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

1982 Head of Department of Oral Surgery, Dental School, University of Vienna

1983 Professor of Oral Surgery and Chairman of the Society of Oral and Implant Surgeons

1987 - 1989 Head of the Dental School of the University of Vienna

1989 - 1993 Chairman of the Austrian Society of Dentists and Stomatologists; Honorary member of the Hungarian Society of Dentists and Stomatologists

1993 Award for best research presentation at the annual Conference on Implant Surgery in Boston, USA

1994 - 1997 Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

since 1998 again Head of the Dental School of the University of Vienna

Member of numerous international associations

Winner of national and international research awards

Project leader of numerous bilateral international research projects

Regular organizer of conferences or invited speaker at conferences in Europe and overseas.

Regular lecturer at postgraduate courses in Europe, the USA, Middle- and South-America and Asia

Married, father of three adult daughters.