Education and career:
Since 2008: Senior Researcher & Project Manager with ZSI, Vienna (Austria)
2006 – 2007: Executive Director Open Medical Institute (OMI), Association of Friends of the American Austrian Foundation (AAF), Vienna (Austria)
2002 – 2006: Innovation programme and e-library project manager; seconded National Expert of Austria, International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), Brussels (Belgium)
2001 – 2002: Information Officer for the EU’s Framework Programme 5 (FP5), Bureau for International Research and Technology Cooperation (BIT), Vienna (Austria)
1996 – 2000, Research and teaching assistant in the unit European Integration, – Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (idheap) of the University and Technical University (EPFL) of Lausanne, Chavannes-pres-Renens (Switzerland)
1988 – 1997 MA in Philosophy: Political Science, Russian, History of Eastern Europe, University of Vienna (Austria), University of Angers (France), University of Volgograd (USSR)
