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Full professor for Applied Cognitive Science and Technical Communication; Head of the Department for Knowledge and Communication Management at the Danube University Krems, Austria
Previous positions:
Lecturer at the University of Vienna, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, University of Skövde/Sweden, University of Granada/Spain and University of Tampere/Finland and Vice Rector at the Danube University Krems. Further studies of Open and Distance Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
President of the European Society for Technical Communication (TCeurope). Head of International Relations at tekom e.V., Subst. General Secretary of the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science (ASoCS), Member of the scientific committee of the Institut für Wissensorganisation (IWO), jury member at the Austrian federal awards "Multimedia and e-Business" 2006 and "Multi-Platform Content Applications" 2005.
Studied at the University of Tampere, Finland, and at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Research areas:
- Cognitive Scientific foundations of communication, Situated Cognition
- Intercultural Communication
- Translation as cooperative text design
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Usability
- Knowledge Management