United Nations University - Institute for Human Security and Environment. Work: Co-Author of a report on the effects of a flood in Serbia; Research; Coordination and organization of activities; Floor manager at a plenary session of the World Health Conference 2007, held in Bonn, Germany.

Award for the best legal dissertation in the academic year of 2003/2004, conferred by the Faculty of Law at HHU, May 4, 2005 (€ 2,500.-)

• LL.M. (with distinction), Tax Law, VU University Amsterdam.

Master thesis: "The Merger Tax Directive and third countries"

• Nominated for the best master thesis 2011 on financial, economic and legal matters by the Dutch Ministery of Finance (De Grote Financien Scriptieprijs).
• Nominated for the best Tax law master thesis 2011 by the Dutch Tax Law Association NOB (NOB/LOF Scriptieprijs).

Dr. sc. ETH Zürich, ETH Medal for excellent PhD
made possible thorugh different grants:
"Fellowship for prospective researchers", the Swiss National Science Foundation"
"Exchange scholarships for excellent young ETH Zürich Scientists: Tokyo Institute of Technology"
travel grant - "Erich-Degen Stiftung
Scholarship "Urban Forms. Conditions and Consequences" at the gta institute, ETH Zürich

Management Science; Review of Finance; IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of Banking and Finance; European Journal of Operations Research; Quantitative Finance; Journal of Business Research; Intelligent Systems in Accounting; Finance and Management; Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft; Business Research; Journal of Sports Economics; International Review of Economics and Finance; International Journal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management

Project Manager: EU funded cross-border projects at CIDO - Craigavon Industrial Development Organisation, Northern Ireland.

Successfully completed projects:
1. Environment: Ecodesign - environmentally friendly product development
2. Business Start Up's: among disadvantaged social groups

Oberassistent an der ETH Zürich am Lehrstuhl für Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte bei Prof. Dr. Werner Oechslin, sowie wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter zur Nachlassbearbeitung der Architekten Haefeli, Moser und Steiger am Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta)

1988 verbrachte er ein Sabbatjahr in Tibet und Tonga. 1997 ist er für sein filmisches und publizistisches Schaffen über seine Wahlheimat Liechtenstein mit dem ¿Josef-Gabriel-von-Rheinberger-Kulturpreis¿ ausgezeichnet worden. 2006 verbrachte er ein Sabbatsemester in Paris (Studium des Koran).

Habilitation (Post-doctoral qualification). Title: The Immanent Right of Withdrawal. The ius poenitendi of the European Distance Marketing Directive in a Comparison with Similar Legal Remedies of Private Law. Habilitation thesis completed in 2003 (published: Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2006). Venia legendi in Private Law and Comparative Law in 2004, Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck/Austria

"Stephan-Koren-Award" granted for the best doctoral thesis of the year 1996 and the included scientific research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration granted by the Association of Professors at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration