Pomberger has received the following awards: Austrian Computer Society Award for Particular Scientific Achievement (1985), Fellow of the Christian Doppler Research Society (2002) and the Upper Austrian Science Award (2006).

Besides his teaching activities at the Johannes Kepler University (bachelor, master and PhD programs in business informatics and master program in computer science), Pomberger is lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Hagenberg. His basic research focuses on the design of high-quality software architectures and the systematic organization of software development processes, his applied research currently concentrates on the design of software architectures for augmented and virtual reality based embedded systems (such as navigation systems, local and context-based services) and the design and implementation of cyber-physical systems. In the broader field of business informatics, his current research emphases are the design and implementation of quality management systems, the diagnosis of the effectiveness and efficiency of IT systems, and the migration of IT systems and organizations.