Curriculum vitae

1986: Doctorate at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna, title of doctoral thesis: Shah Jahan und Orpheus (Shah Jahan and Orpheus)

1992: Habilitation at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna, title of habilitation thesis: Mughal Architecture

April 1998: Hagop Kevorkian Lectureship in Near Eastern Art and Civilization, New York University

May 1998: Distinguished visiting professor of the Department of Arabic Studies of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo
 
May 2003: Seminar The Systematisation of Mughal Ceremonies under Shah Jahan (1628–1658) for the graduate programme in History: Court Societies and Ceremonies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University, Turkey

Winter semester 2002: Fellowship of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

Research activities and projects on the Indian subcontinent commissioned by the Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian central bank): 1982, 1994, 1997, 1999; the Austrian Science Fund: 1982, 1984, 1987, 1989; the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research: 1992; the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Cultural Affairs: 1997

Since 2001: Global advisor of the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative, a joint project of the Indian Government, the Archaeological Survey of India and the Tata group's Indian Hotels Company Limited “for the conservation and site management of the Taj Mahal”

2005–2009: Austrian delegate to the Management Committee of the European Commission's COST Action A36 of the pan-European research initiative Network of Comparative Empires: Tributary Empires Compared: Romans, Mughals and Ottomans in the pre-industrial world from antiquity till the transition to modernity

Trinity term 2008: Visiting professor and senior research associate at the Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East, University of Oxford

Winter semester 2008/2009: Visiting professor at the Department of Art and Architecture of Harvard University

2009–2012: Research project Mughal Palaces, project number P 21480-G21, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

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