Studied history and political science at the University of Vienna. Since 2024 employee of the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research at the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS) in the field of provenance research and heir search; editor of the Lexicon of Austrian Provenance Research. From 2002 to 2023 employee of the Jewish Community Vienna/Department for Restitution Affairs. Previously long-standing collaboration in research projects on approaches to Nazi crimes after 1945 and dealing with the past in Austria (FWF, Austrian National Bank Anniversary Fund, Investigation Office for Post-War Justice) and Wehrmacht crimes ("History in the Making", Ruth Wodak/Walter Manoschek); 2000–01 Austrian Historical Commission (Nazi asset expropriation and restitution in Austria).