Franz Huber studied geography and sociology at the University of Salzburg (Austria) with stays at Oxford Brookes University (UK) and Duke University Graduate School (USA). He was external lecturer at the University of Kassel (Germany), the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Salzburg (Austria). Since 2006 he is a PhD student in economic geography at the University of Cambridge (UK) as a Gates Scholar.