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.