since 2017 Full Professor for Russian History at the Institute of East European History, University of Vienna

Previous professional positions:

• 2013–2017: Dep. director, Institute of Modern and Contemporary History, Austrian Acad. of Sciences
• 2009–2013: Research group leader, Contemporary History, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2009–current: Permanent lecturer, History of International Relations, University of Vienna
• 2003–2008: Researcher, Historical Commission, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2002–2003: Researcher, Institute of East European History, University of Vienna
• 2000–2002: Researcher, Commission for Mass Media History, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 1998–1999: Project intern, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, Montreal, Canada

Fellowships, visiting professorships:

• 2017: Visiting professor, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
• 2015, 2016: Visiting professor, Nikolaus Copernicus University of Torun, Poland
• 2014: Visiting professor, University of Rostock, Germany
• 2011­, 2013: Visiting lecturer (Gastdozent), History, University of Bern, Switzerland
• 2008–09: Visiting fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
• 2003, 2007: Guest researcher, Institute of Global History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Memberships, honorary functions:

• 2017–current: Chairman, Historical Advisory Board, Austrian Ministry for National Defense
• 2017–current: Board Member, International Committee of Editors of Diplomatic Documents
• 2017–current: Co-Chairman, Austrian-Ukrainian Historical Commission
• 2016–current: Co-Editor-in-Chief, Außenpolitische Dokumente der Republik Österreich
• 2016–current: Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• 2015–current: Advisory Board Member, Book Series New Perspectives on the Cold War, Brill
• 2013–current: Co-Editor-in-Chief, Ministerratsprotokolle der Republik Österreich
• 2008–current: Member, Austrian-Russian Historical Commission

Awards:

• 2007-03-09: Leopold Kunschak Prize
• 2006-10-16: Richard G. Plaschka Prize

Fields of research:

• Russian, Soviet, international history, 19-20 century
• Cold War
• Political thought

Selected Works:

Monographs:

• Die sowjetische Besatzung in Österreich 1945-55 und ihre politische Mission. Vienna: Böhlau, 2005, 300 pp.
• A Good Example of Peaceful Coexistence? The Soviet Union, Austria, and Neutrality, 1955-91. Vienna: ÖAW, 2011, 381 pp. peer-reviewed.
• A Cold War over Austria: The Struggle for the State Treaty, Neutrality, and the End of East-West Occupation. With Gerald Stourzh. The Harvard Cold War Book Series. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018, 594 pp. peer-rev.
• Der Kampf um den Staatsvertrag 1945-1955: Ost-West-Besetzung, Staatsvertrag und Neutralität Österreichs. Mit Gerald Stourzh. Wien: Böhlau, 2020.

Selected edited volumes, themed issues:

• The Revolutions of 1989: A Handbook. Ed. with A. Suppan; M. Gehler. Vienna: ÖAW, 2015, 705 pp. peer-rev.
• Kommunismus und Europa: Europavorstellungen und -politik europäischer kommunistischer Parteien im Kalten Krieg. Ed. with Francesco Di Palma. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2016, 276 pp.
• International History in Theory and Practice. Ed. with B. Haider-Wilson, W. D. Godsey. Vienna: ÖAW, 2017, 798 pp. peer-reviewed.
• 1989: Die Samtenen Revolutionen, Österreich und die Transformation Europas. Vienna: New Academic Press, 2017, 233 pp. 

Teaching:

• Russian and Soviet history 9-21 c.
• International relations 18-21 c.
• Political thought