studied pharmacy and habilitated at the university of Vienna. Main research topic was the quality control of herbal drugs. Since 2006 he is assessor at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Sefatey (AGES)/ Austrian Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) and is head of the department for herbal, homoeopathic and veterinary medicinal products at, Austrian delegate to HMPC (EMA, Amsterdam), expert in the Working groups on Herbal Extracts and on TCM of EDQM and lecturer at the University of Vienna.