Goldstern earned a Ph.D. in 1986[5] at the TU Wien under the direction of Robert F. Tichy,[6] with a dissertation in equidistribution;[7] and another in set theory in 1991 at UC Berkeley[8] under the direction of Jack Silver and Haim Judah. As postdoc he held temporary positions at Bar Ilan University, Freie Universität Berlin and Carnegie Mellon University. He acquired habilitation at TU Wien in 1993[9] with the thesis
Tools for your forcing construction, which greatly simplified, and made widely accessible, a general preservation theorem of Saharon Shelah for countable support proper forcing iterations.
In 1993 he started working at TU Wien, where he is now full professor.[1]
Goldstern, Martin; Judah, Haim (1995). The incompleteness phenomenon. A new course in mathematical logic, With a foreword by Saharon Shelah. A K Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA. pp. xiv+247. ISBN9781568810294. (reprinted in 1998)