• born 1973 in Siegen/Westphalia
• 1993 Abitur
• 1995–2002 Student of Catholic Theology and Philosopy at the Universities Münster and Munich and the Munich School of Philosophy S.J.
• 2002 degree of Diplom-Theologe (Münster University)
• 2003–2006 Student of the Dr.-theol.-programme in liturgical studies at Innsbruck University
• 2005–2006 Funded research on Gregorian Chant by the „Tiroler Wissenschaftsfonds”, as such member of the Department of Historical Theology (since 2006: Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology)
• 2006 Dr. theol. (Innsbruck University), doctorate with distinction
• 2006–2024 Assistant Professor at the Department for Biblical Studies and Historical Theology
• 2015 Habilitation, personal title of private lecturer (Privatdozent)
• 2024 Full professor for Liturgical Studies (until 2027)

Within the Faculty of Catholic Theology

Currently

• Dean of Studies, co-opted as a non-voting member to the Curriculum Commission (since 03/2021)
• Member of the editorial board of the faculty's newsletter (since 12/2016, main editor until 02/2018)
• Co-responsible for the faculty's websites (http://uibk.ac.at/theol/...) (since summer 2010)
• Webmaster of the Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology (10/2006–07/2011, again since 02/2015)

Retired

• Organizer of the internal "brown bag meetings" on personal research projects (WS 2009/10—SS 2015
• Responsible for the Research Database of the Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology (08/2011–06/2015)
• Speaker of the Research Center „Synagogue and Churches” (10/2016–06/2021)
• Deputy Head of the Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology (03/2017–02/2021; 07/2019–02/2020 acting Head in absence of Prof. Boris Repschinski SJ)
• Chairman of the department assembly (03/2017–03/2019)
• Faculty's officer for digital media, co-opted as a non-voting member to the Curriculum Commission (04/2017–02/2021)

Outside of the Faculty

Currently

• Board member of the German section of the International Association for Studies of Gregorian Chant AISCGre (since 2015, member since 2004)
• Diocesan officer of the Andreas-Petrus-Werk (Opus Apostolorum Andreae et Petri) (since 2008)
• Member of the Austrian Council of Churches (since 2009)
• Member of the Austrian Catholic-Protestant commission (since 2009)
• Member of the Ecumenical Commission of the Austrian Catholic Bishops' Conference (since 2009)
• Member of the editoral board of „Heiliger Dienst” (since 2010)
• Member of theArbeitsgemeinschaft katholischer Liturgiewissenschaftlerinnen und Liturgiewissenschaftler e.V. (AKL) (since 2016)
• Member of the Innsbruck diocesan commission for liturgy and art (DKLK), section for liturgical practice and formation (since 2019)
• Officer for Ecumenism in the Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck (since 2019)
• Board member and secretary of the Ecumenical commission of the churches in Tyrol (since 2019)
• Member of the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) (since 2020, visiting member since 2016)
• Member of the European Academy of Religion and Society (EARS) (since 2022)

Retired

• Member of the AKL Junior (young scholars in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft katholischer Liturgiewissenschaftlerinnen und Liturgiewissenschaftler) (2006–2016)
• Member of the Ecumenical Council of the diocese of Innsbruck (2009–2019; chairman 2012–2019)

ORCID

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-3193

Research Interests

• Liturgy of the Hours
• Gregorian Chant
• Ecumenical Aspects of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology
• Theology and Practice of Universal Prayer (Prayer of the Faithful)
  

Memberships

• Member of the Research Center„Synagogue and Churches”, 2016–2021 its spokesperson
• Member of the AISCGre (International Society for the Study of Gregorian Chant), since 2015 member of the board of the German-speaking section
• Member of the AKL (Association of Catholic Liturgical Scholars) since 2016
• Member of the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) since 2020 (previously visiting member since 2016)
• Member of the European Academy of Religion and Society (EARS) since 2022

Ongoing and recently completed projects

• Book “Für-Bitten: Schöpfung – Ökumene – Frieden” (to be published by Tyrolia Innsbruck in 2026)
• Participation in establishing a cooperation between the University of Innsbruck and Klosterneuburg Abbey
• Lecture and publication “Drafting, Two-Thirds Majority, or Something Completely Different? Alternative Election Procedures and What Christianity Can Discover About Them” for the Innsbruck Theological Summer Days 2026
• Introduction to Catholicism (Pustet Regensburg, no timetable)
  
• Ongoing: Reviews, published sermons
• Ongoing: Conceptualizing and organizing conferences for the Gregorian Chant Research Society AISCGre
• Completed: Liturgy of the Hours (for the Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy, published in 2025
• Completed: Co-editor of the Festschrift for Reinhard Meßner's 65th birthday, published in 2025/li>
• Completed: Revised 3rd edition of „Liturgie im Rhythmus des Tages” (Pustet Regensburg), published in 2025
• Completed: Revised 5th Edition of „Crashkurs Liturgie” (Pustet Regensburg), published in 2024

Dissertation and Habilitation

Dissertation (completed 2006, published 2009):

• Analysis of 30 Communio Antiphons de evangelio in the Mass Proper of Gregorian Chant de tempore
• Application of the methodology of Gregorian semiology to the individual Chants
• Summary Findings
• Use of the manuscripts Einsiedeln 121, Laon 239, St. Gallen 339, and Bamberg 6

Habilitation (completed 2015, published 2017):

• Commentary on Compline in the Liturgia Horarum with special consideration of
  a) the origins of Compline in Latin monasticism of Late Antiquity,
  b) the reforms of Compline in the 20th century,
  c) alternative forms in contemporary monasticism and outside the Latin Church,
  d) models for current practice

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Research Database

Here you can find the data from the Research Database of the University of Innsbruck.