Ronald Ruzicka graduated as Doctor of Technical Mathematics from the University of Vienna in 1987, after which he founded Simutech Inc., a company which develops software for environmental technology and simulation software. After studying at the Language Center of the University of Vienna and at the Bourgiba Institute in Tunisia, he began his undergraduate degree in Near Eastern Studies (Arabic and Ancient Semitic Languages) at the University of Vienna in 2010, before receiving a Master’s in Arabic Studies, with a focus on Ancient South Arabian languages, in 2016. He is currently working on projects about Eduard Glaser (a South Arabian researcher) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.