Education: Water management and Civil Engineering
Organisation: Environment Agency Austria (since 1989)
Current position: Deputy Head Contaminated Sites Department
- supervising investigation and remediation projects
- chairing the Committee on Risk Assessment (Austrian Standards Institute; since 1993)
- project leader "Contaminated Land Management 2010 - risk-informed and sustainable" - adapting a new national strategy and technical approaches
International activities:
- European projects and co-ordination actions regarding contaminated sites, soil and groundwater management
- EURODEMOplus - remediation technology demonstration (2004 - 2007)
- BRIDGE - groundwater threshold values (2005 - 2006)
- RISKBASE - risk-based river basin management (2006 - 2008)
- Member of European and international networks
- CEN/TEC 345 and ISO/TC 190: 2Soil quality"
- ICCL - International Committee on Contaminated Land
- Policy support at national level and European Commission