I got both my Physics Diploma and my PhD at the University of Vienna. After half-year research
stays at Berne University and Jena University, I spent several years as a postdoc at the MIT, at Trinity College, Dublin, at Karlsruhe University, at the University of Vienna and at the USC. I got a Parga Pondal contract at the USC in 2005, became associate professor (non-civil servant)
in 2010 and associate professor (civil servant) in 2020.
I am a theoretical physicist. My general research areas are classical and quantum field theory and, particularly, their nonlinear and non-perturbative aspects. In the last decade, my research mainly focused on classical and quantized topological solitons, their mathematical properties, and their applications to relevant physical systems. In particular, a significant part of my research is dedicated to generalizations of the so-called Skyrme model
and its application to the physics of hadronic and nuclear matter, and of neutron stars.