Positions & functions
- Professor of Geophysics (Alfred Wegener's Chair) at the University of Graz (UniGraz)
- 2nd Vice Director & Founding Director of the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz (WEGC UniGraz)
- Head of the Geophysics & Meteorology branch at the Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology/Institute of Physics at UniGraz (IGAM/IP UniGraz)
- Head of the Atmospheric Remote Sensing and Climate System (ARSCliSys) Research Group of WEGC&IGAM/IP UniGraz
- Co-Speaker of the Doctoral Programme Climate Change - Uncertainties, Thresholds, and Coping Strategies at the University of Graz (DK Climate Change UniGraz)
- Speaker Earth Observation and Climate Strategies of the University of Graz (appointed by Vice Rector-Research)
- Honorary Professor of the National Space Science Center/Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSSC/CAS), Beijing, China
- Director of Science (and Executive Director jointly with Prof. Sun Yueqiang) of the Joint Laboratory on Occultations for Atmosphere and Climate (JLOAC) of University of Graz and NSSC/CAS Beijing
- Adjunct Professor of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Melbourne, Australia
- Head of the WG Climate ("AG Klima") of the Commission Climate and Air Quality of the Austrian Acedemy of Sciences (ÖAW)
- Head (jointly with Prof. Eva Schulev-Steindl) of the WG Climate Protection Law ("AG Klimaschutz Recht") of the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) and the Commission Climate and Air Quality of the ÖAW