Research

• Explanation and explanation skills

• Explanatory videos

• Methods in Business Didactics, e. g. case method, station learning, flipped classroom, gamification (playful approaches), internships, ...

• Competence modeling, development and measurement

• Curricula and (core) curricula for schools and Business Education

• Entrepreneurship Education

• Research approach: experimental designs, pilot/concomitant research, case studies

• Research methodology: combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, videography

Teaching

• Deputy academic director of the master's program Business Education (BE Master)

• General Business Administration incl. Information Systems - section business administration (BE Master)

• Teacher Behavior Training incl. School Orientation Phase (BE Master)

• Methods in Business Didactics I - section accounting (BE Master)

• Didactics of Accounting (BE Master)

• Business Didactics II (BE Master)

• Standards of Academic Writing and Citation (BE Master)

• Business Didactics III – section accounting (BE Master)

• Research Proposal (BE Master)

• Business Education (doctoral program/PhD)

My current courses can be found in the eVVZ (WU Course Catalog).

Projects

• Habilitation Treatise project: Understandable and motivating explanations when teaching business and economics (completed)

• Concomitant research on the introduction of the new competence-based and learning outcome-oriented curriculum of the Praxis-Handelsschule (completed)

• Dissertation project: KLEE - Development and evaluation of a concept for linking teaching/school development and external evaluation - a quasi-experimental study at Viennese Commercial Academies in the subject of Business Administration in year II (completed)

• TEMPUS project: Introduction of Entrepreneurship Education in the RF (completed)

Professional Experience

• since 2022: Associate professor at the Institute for Business Education at WU Wien

• 2018-2019: Substitute for the chair of business education, in particular theory and didactics of vocational education, at University of Hohenheim, Germany

• 2016-2021: Senior assistant professor at the Institute for Business Education at WU Wien

• 2015-2016: Senior Lecturer post doc at the Institute for Business Education at WU Wien

• 2015-2016: Teacher for commercial/economic subjects at the Federal Commercial Academy and Commercial High School Wien 22

• 2011-2015: Assistant professor post doc NTT at the Institute for Business Education at WU Wien

• since 2011: Lecturer at the University College of Christian Churches of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems (further training for teachers of commercial/economic subjects)

• since 2011: Lecturer at University College of Teacher Education Vienna (further training for teachers of commercial/economic subjects)

• 2011: Associate at the Institute for Continuing Education AHS/BBS at University College of Teacher Education Vienna and lecturer at the Institute for Business Education at WU Wien

• 2008-2010: Academic staff member prae doc at the Institute for Business Education at WU Wien

• 2006-2009: Lecturer at the Military Academy Wiener Neustadt (introduction to business administration, controlling)

• 2005-2008: Research staff member at the RiCC - Research Institute for Co-Operation and Co-Operatives - at WU Wien

• 2004-2006: Accountant for JM Communication GmbH

• 1999-2004: Various internships (Nestlé Österreich GmbH, Oberbank AG, KPMG Alpen-Treuhand GmbH, Schülerhilfe)

Education

• 2021: Habilitation for the subject "Business Education including the Didactics of economic subjects" at WU Wien

• 2012: Completion of Doctoral Program in Social and Economic Sciences at WU Wien

• 2000-2005: Graduation with a Master's Degree in Business Education at WU Wien

• 1999-2000: Degree program in Commercial Sciences at Kepler University Linz (change of degree program)

• 1999: Matura at Khevenhüller Gymnasium Linz