I studied Mathematics at the Technical University of Graz (1991 to 1996), then Quantitative Finance at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1996 to 1998), before I worked there for a year as a project assistant working on applied research projects. I then did an MPhil (2000-2001) and then a PhD in Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK, (officially graduating in 2004) with a thesis on evolutionary game theory and the aggregation of risk-preferences. From September 2003 to March 2011 I was Assistant Professor at the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. From April 2011 to September 2015 I was Professor of Economic Theory at the Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Since October 2015 I am Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Graz. 

My research currently focusses on the development of the theory of strategic interaction (Game Theory) and its application to the social sciences and beyond. 

More concretely, I develop (mathematical) tools in the area of decision theory and game theory. I use these tools to construct novel theories of decision making under uncertainty and of behavior in (consciously or unconsciously) strategic interaction. Particular research areas I have applied this approach to include microeconomics (such as designing mechanisms for public good provision), microsociology (such as studying strategic communication), finance (such as portfolio choice under radical uncertainty), statistics (such as providing an improved estimator for the proportion of Covid cases) and recently even ecology (aspects of animal behavior). 

I teach or have taught an introduction to economics, microeconomics at all levels, including consumer theory, pricing, auctions, behavioral economics, financial economics, and industrial organization, and methodological classes on decision theory, game theory, and statistical methodology.