My roots are in the mountainous, western part of Austria. I studied Geography at the University of Innsbruck (A) and Aberdeen (UK) and worked as a consultant in the field of natural hazard management in Innsbruck.

I decided to come back to university and conducted my PhD in the Hydrology & Climate Group of the Geography Department at the University of Zurich (CH).

I did a postdoc at the Earth and Ocean Science Department at Duke University, North Carolina (USA) before I moved to the Chair of Hydrology at the University of Freiburg (DE).

Currently I am working as a consultant in Bern (CH).