Staff of the Department of Political Science
The team of scientific and administrative colleagues at the department.
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| Name | Work and Research fields |
| Auer, Marlene | Student project assistant in the research project "Beyond Hot Air: Weaving knowledge around critical raw material supply for the 'green' transition" |
| Bohle, Dorothee | Central and Eastern European economy and politics; Comparative political economy (varieties of capitalism, institutional political economy, welfare states, industrial relations, housing finance regimes); International political economy (European integration, financialisation) |
| Boos, Tobias | International Political Economy, Social Structure Analysis, (Left-wing) Populism, State theory of the Global South, Political Theory |
| Brad, Alina (Senior Scientist) | International Climate, Environmental and Resource Policy, Political Ecology, Carbon Removal Technologies, Social-Ecological Transformation - Regional Focus Southeast Asia |
| Brand, Ulrich (on research leave from 01.10.2024 until 30.06.2025) | International politics and crisis of globalisation; international climate, environmental and resource policy; civil society; trade unions and social movements; imperial mode of living; socio-ecological transformation; Latin America |
| Chapotot–Necker, Julia | Research administration and coordination, ERC research project MARIPOLDATA and research project MARCO-BOLO |
| Cyganik, Dominika | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Deters, Henning | EU Judicial Politics, EU Environmental and Climate Policy, EU Single Market Policy, Regional Parliaments in the EU |
| Dursun, Ayse | Feminist Theory, Policies of Gender Equality, Intersecionality, Social movements, Migration |
| Egger, Manuela | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Eitenberger, Magdalena (on research leave from 25.08.2024 until 23.03.2025) | digital health, healthcare technology, digital ethics, social policy |
| Eyselein, Gabriel | European raw-material policy, international resource policy, international political economy, global value-chains & production networks |
| Falkner, Gerda (Head of the EIF – Centre for European Integration Research) | European Integration, Europeanisation, Problems with transposition and application of EU law, The EU’s social dimension and anti-discrimination policy |
| Fankhauser, Ingrid | Coordinator of the Research Network Latin America studies |
| Farvardin, Firoozeh | Feminist theories of neoliberalism, affect and social change, Global (anti-) gender movements, Gender and social politics in Iran, state theory, transnational mobility and mobilization, and the politics of knowledge production on these topics, particularly in the Middle East and Iran. |
| Fellinger, Simon Joel | Student project assistant, ERC research project MARIPOLDATA |
| Gebh, Sara | Political Theory and History of Ideas; Democratic Theory; Radical Democracy; History of Anti-Democratic Thought; Conflict and Stasis; Civil Disobedience, Protest and Resistance |
| Geva, Dorit | Politics and gender, political sociology, state theory, historical sociology, rightwing politics, neoliberalism |
Gmoser, Susanne | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Graf, Irene | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Grahofer, Jutta | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Hajek, Katharina | Univ.-Ass. in the field of Gender & Politics |
| Hansl, Nora | Health Policy, Vaccination Policy, Interpretative Policy Research, Qualitative Methods |
| Harjes, Caitlin | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Heidebrecht, Sebastian | EU policies for the digital age, EU digital single market, Economic governance and the Eurozone, Working conditions of platform workers |
| Hirt, Carolin | Student project assistant in the research project "Household GHG footprints and Austrian climate policy: identifying leverage points for demand-side mitigation" |
| Hogan, Connor | Political theory; political philosophy; labour rights; labour law; space policy; space law; regulation and governance; computational social sciences; labour market transformation and technological change; digitalisation |
| Hörmandinger, Florian | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Huegel, Viktoria | Political theory, radical democracy, new authoritarianism, 20th century German Political Thought, political order and disorder |
| Josipovic, Ivan | European and national asylum policy, migration and border regimes, empirical social research |
| Jurman, Lana | International politics, political theory, South-Eastern European studies, environmental politics, social and political history of Yugoslavia, racial histories |
| Kathan, Michaela | Department coordinator, administrative staff of the Department |
| Klausner, Nicolas | IT representative - Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology & Department of Political Science |
| Klock, Moritz | Student project assistant in the research project "Trustees or Agents? The appointment and ideological orientations of the judges at the Court of Justice of the EU" |
| Knapp, Max | Project assistant (pre-doc) in the project ‘Socio-ecological transformation and its conflict dynamics‘ in cooperation with the Chamber of Labor Vienna |
| Kováts, Eszter | Feminist theory, gender equality policies, anti-gender movements, illiberal rights in Europe |
| Krischek, Caroline | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Kurunczi, Alexander | Protest and social movement studies; political utopias and prefigurative practices; political ecology and socio-ecological conflicts; (post-)Marxist theory |
| Langlet, Arne | Marine biodiversity governance, international organizations, international negotiations, network analysis |
| Liebhart, Karin | Visual Political Communication; Discursive and Visual Representations of Politics; Rightwing Populism and Rightwing Extremism; Gender Studies; Memory Politics and Remembrance Cultures; Qualitative Methods |
| Lenikus, Valerie | Political ecology, (neo-)extractivism, agrarian extractivism and socio-ecological conflicts with a regional focus on Latin America |
| Lettner, Christian | Project assistant (pre-doc) Politics and Biodiversity |
| Maneka, Danyal | Social-ecological transformation conflicts, (auto-)mobility, industrial policy, materialist state theory, hegemony theory, science communication, Politics of climate change, Carbon management |
| Marchart, Oliver | Political theory, social theory, democracy theory, history of political ideas, social movement research, political discourse analysis |
| Meissner-Schoeller, Katharina | EU trade policy, EU relations with South America and Southeast Asia, inter-regionalism |
| Melchior, Josef (Director of Studies - Political Science Directorate of Studies) | The Political System of the European Union, Europeanization Research, Inequality and Democracy |
| Menkovski, Bojan | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Modelhart, Antonia | Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Assisted reproductive technologies and antibiotic resistance, qualitative methods |
| Müller, Patrick | Professor, Center for European Integration Research (EIF) |
| Naudé, Lucie | Univ.-Ass. in the field of Gender & Politics |
| Naue, Ursula (ERASMUS coordinator, Mobility coordinator, Senior Lecturer) | Disability policy, dementia and age(ing) policy, participation research, inclusion research, human rights implementation |
| Nejadi, Soheil | IT representative - Department of Political Science & Department of Statistics and Operations Research |
| Paul, Katharina T. | Health Policy, Vaccination Policy, Regulation, Medical & Biopolitics, Critical Policy Analysis, Interpretative Policy Research |
| Pflug, Rebekka | Social movement research (women's movement, anti-gender movement, rights movements), welfare states (gender regime, care regime), feminist theory in and to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) |
| Pichelstorfer, Anna | Health Policy, Immunization Policy, Global Health, Science and Democracy, regulation of biomedicine |
| Prainsack, Barbara | Health policy; practices, institutions and politics of solidarity; political, social and ethical aspects of Personalised Medicine; data-rich practices in science and medicine; regulation of DNA technologies in medicine and forensics; comparative science & technology policy |
| Preiser, Anna | Resource and environmental policy, socio-ecological conflicts, Political Ecology, Political Economy, regional focus: Latin America |
| Radl, Marlene | Feminist state theories, media and populism, masculinism, authoritarian populism, authoritarian statism, feminist political economy, political economy of media and communication, media ownership |
| Raffa, Monja | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Rajic, Danijela | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Ruiz R., Silvia C. | International Environmental Policy, International Marine Protection, Pnternational Political Economy |
| Sauer, Madlyn | History and Practice of civil society tribunals; Social Movement Research; Peace and Conflict Studies; Protest and Resistance; Transformative and social Justice; Decolonial Theory; Abolitionism; |
| Saxinger, Gertrude | Qualitative, ethnographic and decolonial research methods; solidarity in times of a pandemic; social perspectives, in/justice and solidarity in the context of extractive industries and ‘green transition’; Russian and Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic |
| Scheibenpflug, Valerie | Political Theory and History of Political Ideas, Boundaries, Crisis, Collective Action, Radical Democracy, Discourse Analysis, Feminist Theory |
| Schermann, Noah | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Schmid, Lina Theresa | International Political Economy, Political Theory, Latin America, Social Movements |
| Schraik, Elke | EU policies tackling digital divides, i.e. policies addressing: the competition for global digital leadership; differences in access and use of the digital media between regions, countries and people |
| Schreier, Stefan | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Segarra, Helena | European and national asylum and border policies, accommodation of asylum seekers, migration, inclusion and participation, empirical social research and ethnography |
| Seidl, Timo | Comparative Political Economy of Digital Capitalism, Digital Policymaking in the EU, Ideational Explanations, Text-as-Data |
| Seitz, Sergej | Political and Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Theories of Radical Democracy, Discourses of Alterity, Theories of Linguistic Violence |
| Slominski, Peter (Vice-Director of Studies - Political Science Directorate of Studies) | European Integration with focus on EU energy policy, the EU's fight against climate change |
| Sowa, Florian | Administrative staff of the EIF – Centre for European Integration Research |
| Stummer, Rainer | Administration of the ERC research project PREDEF prefiguring democratic futures, public relations of the Department of Political Theory |
| Tackie, Lisa | Anti-Racism, Decolonisation, African Diaspora, Intersectionality, Educational Work on Anti-Racism, Travel Studies |
| Vadrot, Alice (Deputy Head of Department) | International environmental policy, Multilateral negotiations and environmental diplomacy, Biodiversity policy, Interface between science and politics, International marine conservation |
| Varabyeu Kancelová, Natália (currently on leave) | Administration of the Research Platform Governance of digital practices & Administrative staff of the Department |
| Vukov, Visnja | Comparative and international political economy; European integration; East European politics and societies |
| Waldmüller, Johannes | Human Rights Politics in Andean Latin America; International Environmental and Disaster Politics; Green Transition and Sustainability Ethics, Research, Technology and Innovation as well as Development Cooperation in North-South Relations (focus on EU-LAC); Science and Diplomacy; Blue Economies and Coastal Community Management; Indigenous and Afro-Andean Well-Being |
| Weithaler, Anna | Political Theory (esp. Radical Democratic Theory and Theories of Solidarity), History of Political Ideas , Theories of Education, Aesthetics |
| Weiss, Elias | Solidarity, Labour Market, Health, Unconditional Basic Income, Electoral Periods |
| Wieder, Anna | Political Philosophy and Theory, Democratic Theory, esp. Theories of Radical Democracy, Social Philosophy, Ethics, Critical Theory, Theories of Resistance, Protest, Civil Disobedience, Theories of Political Practices |
| Wolkenstein, Fabio (Head of Department) | Democratic Theory, Political Parties and Representation, Political Ideologies (esp. Christian Democracy and Social Democracy) |
| Wurm, Felix | Student project assistant in the research project "Observing and mapping biodiversity and ecosystems, with particular focus on coastal and marine ecosystems - MARCO-BOLO" |
| Zhikharevich, Dmitrii | Valuation studies, social theory, economic sociology, history and sociology of expertise, STS |