| 2021-2023 | Head, Department for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck |
| 2021 | Chair, Faculty Council, Faculty for Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, University of Innsbruck |
| 2021 | President (ad interim), Austrian Science Fund (FWF), March-April |
| 2016-2021 | Vice-President Natural Sciences and Engineering, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) |
| 2013-2017 | Head, Department for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck |
| 2007-2010 | Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics |
| 2005-2012 | Associate Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo |
| 2004-2005 | Assistant, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna; Completed Habilitation for Experimental Physics (August 31, 2005) |
| 2003-2004 | Assistant Professor of Research, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo University, Group of Prof. Y. Arakawa |
| 2001-2004 | Consulting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Group of Prof. Y. Yamamoto |
| 2001 | Visiting Scientist, ERATO Quantum Computation and Information Project, Tokyo, Japan (July-August) |
| 2000 | Graduation “Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae Austriae” (with special honors by the president of the Austrian republic, March 13) |
| 1999-2005 | Assistant (Junior Faculty), Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna (April 1) |
| Ph. D. oral defense, thesis on "An experiment to test Bell’s inequality under Einstein locality" (March 17) |
| Invited talk at the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, USA |
| 1998 | “Vertragsassistent”, University of Innsbruck with Prof. Anton Zeilinger |
| 1997 | Research visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA and work on Interaction-free measurement |
| 1994 | Master of Science degree (summa cum laude), University of Innsbruck, thesis on Quantum interferometry with optical fiber multiports (December 17) |
| 1993 | Internship, Siemens Munich, Germany for Noise measurements on ultrafast silicon transistors |
| 1991 | Internship, Siemens Erlangen, Germany for the Production and characterisation of epitaxial HTSC-layers |
| 1986–1989 | Participation in the Austrian (winner in 1989) and International Physics Olympiad (silver medal 1989) |
