Where we come from is not nearly as important as where we are going.
Unknown
Past
- born and bred in Tirol
- Studies of English, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Innsbruck
- study abroad at Middlesex University, London
- reasearch stays in the USA
- Ph.D. in American Studies on the ethics of storytelling in American Media
- Study of the United States International Exchange Alumni
- Assistant professor at the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck
Present
- executive director at ACADEMIA SUPERIOR – Institute for Future Studies, Linz
- lecturer in media studies at the University of Innsbruck
Voluntary Work
- EMT and lecturer at the Red Corss Linz / Nord
- secretary of the Bundesverband Rettungsdienst BVRD.at
- headmistress of COLE International Schools
Future
Only the future is certain because it is still ours to make.
Abraham Verghese
What’s important to me
- good talks and engaging discussions
- intriguing ideas and arguments
- science and humanities
- journalism and media studies
- emergency medicine
- technlology and the digital shift
- education
- arts and culture
- the future
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
Robert Frost
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Some of the cooles things I was lucky enough to experience and be part of
- was in charge of summer camps for disadvantaged kids
- gave a talk at a conference at MIT
- saw real volcano lava smashing into the sea in Hawaii
- taught people how to apply first aid that actually saved someone’s life
- learned how to scuba dive
- moved somewhere without knowing anybody
- set up a webpage all by myself
- climbed Traunstein with my dad
- met Holocaust survivors in Yad Vashem
- went camping with my family
- organized discussions and symposia with really smart and wonderful people from all over the world
- played the violin in an orchestra (and the viola in a quartet)
- flew the Grand Canyon
- organized academic conferences and meetings
- went horseback riding in Texas
- went on a motorbike tour through 5 countries in Europe all by myself without speaking the language
- helped organize an award for outstanding EMTs and paramedics in Austria