 In 1994 starting as University Assistant, he became University Professor in 2001.From 2004 to 2008 he was Vicedean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna.In 1996 he founded the Austrian-South Pacific Society (Österreichisch-Suedpazifische Gesellschaft, OSPG), the one and only scientific institution dealing with the Pacific islands in Austria, and in 2002, together with Prof. Erich Lehner from the Univ.