Diploma in Geography from FSU Jena, German, PhD in Geography from The University of Reading, UK. Then Post-doc at TU-Wien followed by an Hertha Firnberg and an Elise Richter fellowship resulting in habilitation for ‘applied remote sensing’ (2011). Then visiting professor at Salzburg University, substitute professor at LMU Munich, substitute head of climate change impact section of ZAMG, Vienna. From 2017 managing director of b.geos GmbH (founder and owner). Recipient of an ERC Synergy grant in 2021.