Markus
Grimberger

Markus Grimberger, born in Linz in 1977 and father of two daughters, graduated in law from the University of Innsbruck, where he also served as a student representative on the faculty council. After completing his legal training, he worked from 2004 to 2009 as deputy head and later head of the Legal Service Centre at the Medical University of Innsbruck, before moving to the Institute for Administrative Law and Administrative Theory at the Johannes Kepler University Linz as a university assistant in 2009. From 2012 to 2013, he was a legal assistant at the Independent Administrative Senate of the Province of Upper Austria as part of a cooperation with the JKU, before taking over as head of the Human Resources & Legal Department at the Anton Bruckner Private University in November 2013. In autumn 2014, he took on the role of Deputy University Director, which he held until its abolition at the end of September 2023.

He is also a permanent editor of the Neue Hochschulzeitung (N@HZ, since June 2013), chairman of the ÖH sub-election commission at the ABPU (since December 2014) and chairman of the ÖPUK working group on law (since March 2022).

His publications focus on higher education and student law.
Here, he is responsible for chapters in the Yearbook of Higher Education Law (since 2013), co-editor of the commentary on the Higher Education Quality Assurance Act (together with Werner Hauser and Stefan Huber) and co-author of the Handbook of Austrian Higher Education Law, the Law on Private Universities and the commentary on the University of Applied Sciences Act.