PhD program in Physical Anthropology, Univ. Vienna. PhD Dissertation: "New Hominids from Central Asia: the Easternmost Neanderthals?"

Study of Physical Anthropology and Prehistory at the University of Vienna. Masters Thesis (2002): "Locomotion dependent variation of the proximal femoral trabecular pattern in primates"

Maîtrise d’Anthropologie biologique, préhistoire et paléoanthropologie at the University Bordeaux I, France

Excursions to palaeoanthropological sites, with Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Maria Teschler-Nicola

Surface scanning and three-dimensional visualization (Lecture and lab, graduate students) with A.o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Katrin Schäfer

Comparative morphology of fossil primates and hominids (practical course, graduate students) with Louise C. Blundell, M.Sc.

The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition, in collaboration with A.o. Univ. Prof. Dr. G. Trnka (Prehistory Dept. Univ. Vienna) and Mag. P. Nigst (Seminar, graduates)

Presentation techniques (Practical course, undergraduates), with Dr. P. Gunz and Dr. P. Mitteröcker

Early Homo (Lecture, graduate students)

Neanderthals and their contemporaries (Lecture, graduate students)

Primate evolution (Lecture, graduate students)

Australopithecus and Paranthropus (Lecture, graduate students)

"The Age of the Early Aurignacian – Continued Excavations at Willendorf II". 13 500 US$, Leakey Foundation. With Philip R. Nigst, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

"The Age of the Early Aurignacian – New Excavations at Willendorf II". 13 000 US$, Leakey Foundation. With Philip R. Nigst, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Research Award of the Theodor Körner Fund for Science and Arts

"The Age of the Early Aurignacian – New Excavations at Willendorf II". 2 000 € Wiener Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung. With Philip R. Nigst, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig and A.O. Univ. Prof. Gerhard Trnka, Institute for Pre- and Protohistory, University Vienna

Travel Grant: Österreichischen Forschungsgemeinschaft, for participation at the 72nd Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Tempe, AZ. 800 €

Director (together with Horst Seidler, Dept. Anthropology, Univ. Vienna) of the survey and excavation at the Plio-Pleistocene site of Galili (Somali Region, Ethiopia)

Director (together with Philip R. Nigst, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Gerhard Trnka, Institute of Prehistory, University Vienna) of the excavation of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic site Willendorf II

Survey and excavation of Plio-Pleistocene sediments in the Somali Region and the Red Beds (Danakil), Ethiopia with the Institute for Anthropology, Univ. Vienna (PI Prof. Dr. Horst Seidler)

Site supervision (together with Philip R. Nigst) of the excavation of a Gravettian campsite at Stillfried, Lower Austria. Excavation Director Dr. W. Antl-Weiser

Excavation at Obi-Rakhmat Rockshelter (Uzbekistan), Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. In collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Prof. Dr. A. Derevianko, Dr. A. Krivoshapkin) and Uzbek Academy of Sciences (Prof. U. Islamov).

Excavations at Felsötárkány, a Miocene hominid locality in Hungary. With Prof. D. Begun, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. Toronto

Different excavations of the Forschungsgesellschaft Wiener Stadtarchäologie, Austrian Dept. of Antiquities and the University of Vienna. Medieval to Paleolithic periods.

Upper Miocene deposits at Rudabánya, Hungary (Fieldschool of the University of Toronto, Prof. D. Begun)

Late Neolithic mass burials at the Aven de la Boucle, Corconnes, France (Prof. Dr. H. Duday, U. Bordeaux)

Wir (und) die Neandertaler (Us (and) the Neanderthals), talk at the exhibition "C.I. Brom - Homo sapiens" by Peter Brandlmayr. ESC, Graz.

Affe, Mensch- und Wir? (Ape, human - and what about us?), talk in the lecture series "Flying Science" at the Zoo Basel, Switzerland

Die Evolution des Gehirns - Von Lucy bis Heute (Brain evolution - from Lucy to today), talk at the Brain Awareness Week, University Vienna

Das Geheimnis des Wolkenaffen (The secret of the cloud monkey), talk at the Technical Museum Vienna in the exhibition "Das Geheimnis der Wolkenmenschen-Inka"

Help in the organization of the exhibition "Das Geheimnis der Wolkenmenschen-Inka" at the Technical Museum Vienna. Activities: CT-scanning and visualization of data, scientific consulting (Organizer Prof. Dr. H. Seidler)

Der Trilobit in der Schuhsohle (The trilobite in the shoe-sole), talk at the lecture series University Meets Public

Participation in the project "Multiple Being", a project at the junction of arts and sciences exploring the meaning of borders in different disciplines. Organized by Peter Brandlmayr and Josephine Spak. Tanzquartier Wien.

Collaboration in the conception and realization of a special exhibition on bronze age burials at the Urzeitmuseum Nussdorf ob der Traisen (with M. Teschler-Nicola, M. Berner and K. Wiltschke)