I am a professor of economics,  focusing on international macroeconomics, monetary policy analysis and the Bayesian analysis of non-linear time series models. Prior to joining the University of Salzburg, I held an assistant professor position at the WU Vienna and  was working as an economist in the foreign research division (AUSA) of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB). Moreover, I am deputy director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) as well as a scientific consultant to the OeNB.

My research has been published in journals such as the European Economic Review, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Economics Letters, Macroeconomic Dynamics and the International Journal of Forecasting, inter alia.