| 28. May 1972 | Born in Steyr, Austria |
| 1986 - 1991 | Technical School for Electronics HTL Steyr |
| 1991 - 1996 | Studies in Technical Mathematics, Johannes University Linz |
| 2. Feb. 1996 | Graduated to Dipl.-Ing. |
| 1996 - 2000 | Research Assistent at
Institute for Analysis and Computational Mathematics and SFB F013 "Numerical and Symbolic Scientific Computing" |
| 30. June 1999 | Defense of Ph.D.-Thesis
Title: Robust Multigrid Methods for Parameter Dependent Problems, Referees: Prof. U. Langer and Prof. D. Braess |
| 2000 (?) | doctorate sub auspiciis praesidentis |