Academic Staff
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Professors
Dorothee Bohle
Head of Department
Professorship for Comparative Politics (Focus Eastern and Southeastern Europe)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 29
Ulrich Brand
Professorship for International Politics
Head of the Research Group Latin America
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 210
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 52
Gerda Falkner
Privatdoz. M.A.ES.
Professorship at and head of the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF)
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.24
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 57
Dorit Geva
Ph.D.
Professorship for Gender and Politics
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 212
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 15
Oliver Marchart
Professorship for Political Theory
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 214
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 13
Patrick Müller
Privatdoz. M.A.
Professorship for European Studies at the IPW and the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 204
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 10
Katharina T. Paul
Deputy Head of Department
Professorship for Digital Health Governance
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.11
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 38
Barbara Prainsack
Professorship for Comparative Policy Analysis
Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity (CeSCoS)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 208
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 23
Alice Vadrot
Professorship for International Relations and the Environment
Head of the Environmental Politics Research Group
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.08
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 55
Fabio Wolkenstein
Ph.D.
Deputy Head of Department
Professorship for Transformations of Democracy
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 202
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 19
Postdocs & Senior staff
Tobias Boos
B.A.
Senior scientist
Deputy head of the Research Group Latin America
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 216
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 40
Alina Brad
Senior scientist
Ferstelgasse 5/25
Room D 07
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 51
Beatrice Carella
B.Sc. M.A. M.Sc. Ph.D.
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.10
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 72
Magdalena Eitenberger
B.A. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 213
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 47
Firoozeh Farvardin
B.A. M.A. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 209
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 92
Christine Gajo
Ph.D.
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.16
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 76
David Gazsi
M.Sc. (Hons) M.A. Ph.D.
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.09
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 74
Katharina Hajek
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 209
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 93
Anna Hehenberger
B.Sc. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 207
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 39
Sebastian Heidebrecht
B.A. M.A.
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.25
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 73
Viktoria Huegel
B.A. M.A. Ph.D.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “Prefiguring Democratic Futures”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 215
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 69
Eszter Kováts
B.A. M.A. M.A. Ph.D.
Co-leader of the research project „Social justice or cancel culture? Gender-just language and academic freedom in Germany“
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/7th floor
Room B 716
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 71
Arne Langlet-Uranüs
B.A. M.A.
Senior scientist
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.07
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 41
Valerie Lenikus
B.A. B.A. M.A.
Currently on leave
Senior scientist (non-tenured)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 216
1010 Vienna
Josef Melchior
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 215
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 31
Armin Puller
Senior lecturer for Foundations of Political Science
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 217
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 32
Julia Sachseder
M.Sc.
Currently on leave
Principal investigator of the research project “ClimPeace”
Ferstelgasse 5/25
Room D 02
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 88
Jensen Sass
Ph.D.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 213
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 46
Magnus Schoeller
M.A. M.Res. Ph.D.
Project staff member in the research project “Accountability of Frontex in EU Border Management”
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.21
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 61
Yuki Seidler
M.A. M.Sc.
Senior lecturer for Qualitative Methods and Policy Studies
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 217
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 33
Sergej Seitz
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “Prefiguring Democratic Futures”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 207
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 67
Carmen Séra-Penker
B.A. B.A. M.A. M.A.
Senior scientist (non-tenured)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 216
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 91
Peter Slominski
Privatdoz.
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.15
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 77
Anna Wieder
B.A. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 209
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 14
Dmitrii M. Zhikharevich
B.A. M.A. Ph.D.
Project staff member in the research project “Valuing Vaccination”
Kolingasse 14-16/7th floor
Room 07.60
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 37
Praedocs & Research assistants
Carolin Brodtmann
B.Sc. M.Sc.
Project staff member in the research project “Transformative political education counteracting far-right ecologisms”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 66
Louise Décaillet
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “Prefiguring Democratic Futures”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 207
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 68
Johanna Greiwe
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.09
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 59
Nora Hansl
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the research project “Valuing Vaccination”
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.13
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 87
Nikolaus Heimerl
B.Sc. (WU) B.A. M.Sc. (WU)
Project staff member in the research project “Just Transition Strategies in the Interests of Workers”
Ferstelgasse 5/25
Room D 02
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 95
Carolin Hirt
B.A. B.A. B.Sc. M.A.
Currently on leave
Project staff member in the ERC research project “TwinPolitics”
Kolingasse 14-16/1st floor
Room 01.38
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 82
Lana Jurman
M.A.
Currently on leave
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 211
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 44
Alexander Kurunczi
M.A.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “Prefiguring Democratic Futures”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 201
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 98
Wenwen Lyu
M.Sc.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “TwinPolitics”
Kolingasse 14-16/1st floor
Room 01.38
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 84
Verena Mischitz
B.A. B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “Prefiguring Democratic Futures”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 201
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 97
Lucie Naudé
B.A. master M.Phil.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 213
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 94
Felix Nütz
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “TwinPolitics”
Kolingasse 14-16/1st floor
Room 01.38
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 79
Oliver Prausmüller
Project staff member in the research project “Just Transition Strategies in the Interests of Workers”
Ferstelgasse 5/25
Room D 02
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 89
Silvia C. Ruiz Rodríguez
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “TwinPolitics”
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.09
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 48
Elisabeth Saulnier
M.Sc.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 219
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-49453
Jakob Scherer
B.Sc. M.A.
Assistant fire protection officer
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 220
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 07
Lina Schmid
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the research project “The Cultural Political Economy of Bitcoin in the Global South”
Ferstelgasse 5/25
Room D 03
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 63
Emma Schrade
B.A. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 203
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 18
Hirstina Talkova
B.A. M.A.
Kolingasse 14-16/1st floor
Room 01.38
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 49
Natália Varabyeu Kancelová
B.A. M.A.
Currently on leave
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 219
1010 Vienna
Denis Vayznikov
B.A. M.A. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 213
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 64
Elias Weiss
B.A. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 219
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 54
Anna Weithaler
B.A. B.Ed. M.A. M.Ed.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 203
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 11
Christina Walcherberger
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the research project “Valuing Vaccination”
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.13
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 83
Julia Werthmann
B.A. M.A.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room B 209
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 16
Emil Wieringa Hildebrand
B.A. M.A.
Project staff member in the ERC research project “TwinPolitics”
Kolingasse 14-16/1st floor
Room 01.38
1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 86
Student staff
Lorena Arancibia Encina
B.A.
Student assistant “VU Introduction to Scientific Work”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Lina Ehrich
B.A.
Student assistant Dorothee Bohle (research area Comparative Politics)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 208
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 27
Lea Feichtinger
B.A.
Student assistant Ulrich Brand (research area International Politics)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 208
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 27
Antonia Frank
B.Sc.
Student assistant for university teaching
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Paula Frötscher
B.A.
Student assistant Katharina T. Paul (research area Digital Health Governance) and Fabio Wolkenstein (Professorship for Transformations of Democracy)
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 07.60
1090 Vienna
Shih-Cheng Ho
B.A.
Student project staff member in the ERC research project “TwinPolitics”
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.07
1090 Vienna
Theresa Kacerovsky
B.A.
Student assistant “VU Introduction to Scientific Work”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Sophia Krauss
B.A.
Student assistant Dorit Geva (research area Gender and Politics)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Lilly Mehlhorn
B.A. B.A.
Student assistant Oliver Marchart (research area Political Theory)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Luca Rizzi
Student assistant for mobility coordination
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room D 208
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 50
Emelie Schmidt
Student assistant “VU Introduction to Scientific Work”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Lena Schober
B.A.
Student assistant Barbara Prainsack (research area Comparative Policy Analysis)
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Veronika Seiß
B.A.
Student assistant at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF)
EIF – Centre for European Integration Research
Apostelgasse 23/1st floor
Room 1.21
1030 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 60
Annika Teichert
B.A.
Student assistant for the master's programme “Governing Socio-Ecological Transformations”
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room A 206
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 28
Felix Wurm
Student project staff member in the ERC research project “TwinPolitics”
Kolingasse 14-16/5th floor
Room 05.07
1090 Vienna
Retired professors
Sieglinde Rosenberger
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/7th floor
Room B 716
1010 Vienna
Birgit Sauer
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG)
Universitätsstr. 7/7th floor
Room B 712
1010 Vienna
+43-1-4277-494 12
