Curriculum Vitae

WORKEXPERIENCE

2019- recent Consultant & Datascientist

2022– 2024 Data Scientist Statistics Austria • Project management: Austrian implementation of infra-annual data collection on living conditions (IALC) for EUROSTAT

2018– 2022 Data Scientist SORA Institute • Court expert for the Commercial Court Vienna • Multivariate modelling of different issues (e.g. social policy) based on big data sources • Project acquisition in the field of public administration and the social partnership as well as in the private sector

2007– 2018 Scientific and Managing Director Institute for the Rights of the Child • Use of modern, quantitative, multivariate, dimension-reducing, exploratory data analysis methods with the analysis software R; Head of a multidisciplinary team (sociology, pedagogy, political science); Quantitative and theoretical cross-country analysis on school systems and early school leaving

2007– 2015 University Lecturer University of Vienna • Conducted a course on multivariate methods (cluster and correspondence analysis); practical training on data analysis software (SPSS, R) and on statistical analysis of large-scale datasets (PISA data)

2006 Data Analyst SYNTHESIS • Carried out an analysis on the impact of labour market measures on individual labour market parameters (income, time of unemployment, etc) based on registry data of social security bodies and registry data of the employment office.

2003– 2006    Data Analyst Statistic Austria • Made acentral contribution to the complete redesign of the Austrian Labor-Force-Survey; Developed a new automated data-management-process covering all steps from the the raw-data, provided by the CATI and CAPI-system, to the final data-set ready for dissemination (programmed in SPSS); Programmed all plausibility checks and imputation procedures for the data processing

1999– 2003    Founder, Managing Director Research Association SozioLogo, Moser-Rosegger-KEG (SCAN) • Founded and operated this research institute (SCAN) together with two fellow students; Carried out quantitative analyses for different clients (Municipality of Graz, Ministry of Transport, Public Transport Company Graz, Institute of Medicine at the University of Graz, etc)

EDUCATION

1993– 2001 Master’s Degree Sociology Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz