EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM VITAE

Dipl.-Ing. diploma from Vienna University of Technology, awarded 1967 [nominally completing the 5-year master program 1963-1967]

Doctorate Diploma from Vienna University of Technology

awarded in 1972 with a thesis project completed while employed in The Netherlands

GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Habilitation Certificate issued by the committee chair at Graz University of Technology in 1977 based on publications and a special habilitation thesis  submitted in October 1975. Certificate approved by the Federal Minister of Science

First appointment to a professorship at Graz University of Technology in 1980 in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing [a.o. Professor, thus an  extra-ordinary position outside of the regular professorial staff plan]. Appointment by the Federal Minister of Science

Second appointment to a professorship at Graz University of Technology, this time for Computer Vision and Graphics, issued by the Federal Minister of Science in 1992

Celebrating 25 years work as a civil servant at Graz University of Technology by a somewhat mysterious addition of military service, the years as Univ.-Dozent and 2 separate professorships. Issued in 2008.

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Appointment as CEO of the Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf near Vienna, issued by the Chairman of the Board, 1996

OTHER CERTIFICATES

Certificate of University trained ski instructor, issued by University of Vienna Physical Education Department, for the 1967course 

Training in "persuasive presentations" learning how to give talks, especially to NASA decision makers, tought at NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena 1974

Appointment to the rank of First Lieutenant by the Federal Minister of Defense in Austria, 1969

Certificate of retirement from all military duties, issued by the military commander for the Province of Styria in 2010