• 1951 Born in Vienna, Austria
• 1969 final exam, grammar school, Vienna
• 1969-1970 military service
• 1970 study of medicine, University of Vienna
• 1973 study of zoology ad paleontology, University of Vienna
• 1984-2016 Curator at the Herpetological Collection of the Vienna Natural History Museum
• 1988-2016 scientific administrative officer at the Herpetological Collection

Morphology, eidonomy and differential diagnosis of anuran larvae.
Chorology, faunistics and systematics of amphibians and reptiles of Central and South Europe, North Africa, Near and Middle East.
Editor in chief of the journal ‘Herpetozoa - Berichte der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Herpetologie’

Travels to Brazil, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Oman; numerous excursions to Greece, Aegean Islands in particular.