Employment Record

1997 to present Director of R & D Consulting Institute, COMPOST - CONSULTING & DEVELOPMENT, Technical Office Agriculture

1996 Executive Secretary Austrian Demeter Association

1989 Senior scientist at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Biological Agriculture and Applied Ecology, Vienna, Member of the Board Austrian Demeter Association

1986 Graduation Dipl. Agraringenieur, Freelance trainee at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Biological Agriculture, and Applied Ecology, Vienna

1984 Seminar for bio-dynamic Agriculture, Section for Natural Sciences, Goetheanum, Switzerland

1981 Thesis: "Cultivation of maize in a semi-humid savanna region in Venezuela"

1977 Student at the University of Agricultural Sciences, plant production, Vienna, Trainee on several farms in Austria and Germany; Trainee at ÖKODATEN Service GmbH, laboratory for soil chemistry, Professor Dr. Georg Husz, Vienna 

Research Activities

• Participation in the development of source segregation systems, composting and compost application research .
• Participation in applied research projects involving the process optimisation of organic waste composting, the quality definition und best practice of compost application including the assessment of nutrition value, nitrogen dynamic, the assessment of PTEs and organic pollutants in composts of different origins and greenhouse gas emissions from decentralised small scale composting systems.
• Management of multi-disciplinary projects such as "The handbook of composting", "The Bio-Bin of Vienna" and lately "State of the Art of Composting".
• Expert consultant to the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW), in preparing the Austrian Compost Ordinance, representing Austria in the European Commission in the areas biowaste, sludge, soil protection as well as environmental aspects of the ABPR (EC) N° 1774/2002.
• Leader of study groups:
  • Beneficial effects of compost application (BMLFUW)
  • "Heavy metals and organic compounds from waste used as organic fertilisers" (EU Commission)
  • Assessment of heavy metal concentrations on Austrian Composts on the background of the requirements of Annex II of (EC) N° 2092/91 for the use of biowaste compost in organic farming (City of Vienna)
  • Guidelines for the state of the art of composting (BMLFUW, Austria)
• Chair of the Austrian standards committee Biological waste treatment and recycling
• Austrian Representative in CEN standardisation work (TC223 Soil Improver and Growing Media; BT Task Force 151 Horizontal Standards in the fields of sludge, biowaste and soil
• Austrian representative of the European Compost Network (ECN)