Staff of the Department of Political Science
The team of scientific and administrative colleagues at the department.
| Name | Work and Research fields |
| Bergmann, Astrid | Feminist Theory, Feminist Political Economy, Political Theory |
| Bernhardt, Petra | Visual Political Communication, Strategic Communication, Political Advertising and Branding, Photojournalism, Iconographies of Terror and Violence, Qualitative Visual Methods |
| Boos, Tobias (currently on scientific leave) | Politics and Populism in Latin America, Middle Class in Latin America, Political Economy, State theory of the Global South, Political Theory |
| Brad, Alina (currently on leave) | International envrionmental and resource politics, political ecology, politics of scale, socio-ecological conflicts, regional focus: South East Asia |
| Brand, Ulrich (Deputy Head of Department) | International Politics, Critical State, Governance and Globalization Studies, International Political Ecology, Economic Policy, Environmental Policy, Democracy Theory and Political Theory |
| Brogat, Emmanuelle | Research Administration and coordination, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| Cakir, Alev | Scientific project assistant in the research project Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE) |
| Dalpra, Elio | Research interests include human rights and fundamental freedoms – especially freedom of expression and freedom of the arts, constitutional law, parliamentary systems, political participation and protest |
| Dursun, Ayse | Feminist Theory, Policies of Gender Equality, Intersecionality, Social movements, Migration |
| Egger, Manuela | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Ehs, Tamara | Social issues of democracy and the rule of law, constitutional jurisdiction, direct and participatory democracy, legal and historical foundations of European integration (in particular ECJ) |
| Erdmann, Madita | (Intersectional) feminist and postcolonial theories of International Relations, Eurocentrism and Racism in International Relations, critical security and border studies, critical migration studies, regional interests: Indian subcontinent, Kashmir |
| 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 | Administrative employee, research group Latin American studies |
| Flatscher, Matthias | Political Theory, Language and Social Philosophy, Political Ideas, Democracy Theories and Discourses of Alterity |
| Gassner, Beate | Gender-based violence, intersectionality, violence against children and adolescents, social movements, migration, inequality, political economy |
| Gebh, Sara | Political Theory and the History of Political Ideas: Democratic Theory, Democracy and Conflict, Theories of Resistance, (Civil) Disobedience and Protest, Theories of the State of Exception, Theories of Constituent Power, Ancient Political Thought |
| Gmoser, Susanne | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Gold-Ponesch, Sarah | Feminism, academia and motherhood as situated knowledges; (queer)feminist science and technology studies; resilience and security; critical feminist and security studies; (queer)feminist and postcolonial theories in International Relations; homonationalism and orientalism in Western Europe |
| Graf, Irene | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Grahofer, Jutta | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Graziani, Chiara | Student Project Assistant at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF) |
| Haselbacher, Miriam (currently on leave) | Migration Policy, Integration Research |
| Hasenöhrl, Syntia | Gender and Politics, Mobility Studies, Diaspora Politics, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Discourse Studies |
| Hattmannsdorfer, Helena (currently on leave) | Migration Policy, Integration Research, European and National Asylum Politics, Ethnography, Gender Studies |
| Högelsberger, Heinz | The research aims to contribute to a better understanding of possibilities and obstacles regarding socialecological conversion of the automotive industry and the respective roles of employees and their interests groups |
| Kathan, Michaela | Organizational Assistant, administrative staff of the Department |
| Kettner, Verena | Feminist Political Theories, Queertheory, Affects and Emotions, Body Politics, Feminist Political Economy |
| Kieslich, Katharina (currently on leave) | Comparative health policy; comparative public policy; health priority setting and rationing; health technology assessment; social values in health priority setting; public participation in health care decision-making. |
| Köpl, Regina | Feminist Science Criticism, Politics of Gender Relations, Subjectivity and Subject Concept, Industrial Culture, Media-Power-Society |
| Krams, Mathias | Social Movements, Resistance, Space, Conflict, Political Ecology, Climate and Energy Policies, Materialist State Theory |
| Krischek, Caroline | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Langlet, Arne | Scientific researcher, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| Lenikus, Valerie | Political ecology, extractivism research, Latin American state theory, international environmental and resource politics, regional focus: Latin America |
| Liebhart, Karin (Senior Lecturer, Vice-Director of Studies) | Visual Politics and Visual Cultures; Political Communication and Campaigning; Discursive and Visual Representations of Politics; Right-wing Populism, Right-wing Extremism, Anti-pluralistic Politics; Memory politics; Gender Studies; Qualitative Methods in Social Research |
| Liepold, Mira | Project employee in the research project Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE) |
| Loschi, Chiara | EU border management policies and implementation, EU migration policy, fundamental rights, MENA region and eastern Europe migration policies |
| Maneka, Danyal | International political economy, critical studies of the European Union, materialist state- and social theory, feminist theory |
| Marchart, Oliver | Political Theory, Theory of Society, Theory of Democracy, History of Political Ideas, Social Movement Research, Precariousness Research, Political Discourse Analysis |
| Meissner, Katharina | EU trade policy, EU relations with South America and Southeast Asia, inter-regionalism |
| Melchior, Josef (Director of Studies) | The Political System of the European Union, Europeanization Research, Inequality and Democracy |
| Menkovski, Bojan | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Müller, Patrick | European Integration, European Union´s International Relations, The EU´s role in Global Governance, The EU´s Common Foreign and Security Policy, EU-Mediterranean Relations, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |
| Naue, Ursula (Senior Lecturer) | Disability Politics and Policies, Politics of Dementia and Age(ing), Participation Research, Inclusion Research |
| Niederhauser, Julian | Cultural Political Economy, European Integration, Authoritarian turn of Western liberal democracies, Cultural Studies, Critical Social Theory |
| Novak, Christoph | Critical migration research; Empirical social research; Feminist, postmigration and postcolonial studies; Critical whiteness studies; Racism |
| Opratko, Benjamin | Racism and Islamophobia; Right wing populism; Critical Political Theory, Gramscian theories of Hegemony; International Political Economy |
| Paul, Katharina T. | Health Policy, Vaccination Policy, Regulation, Medical & Biopolitics, Critical Policy Analysis, Interpretative Policy Research |
| Penz, Otto | Sociology of the Body, Beauty and Emotions, Sociology of Sport, Sociology of Work, Political Sociology |
| Pichelstorfer, Anna | Biopolitics, science and democracy, health policy, participation |
| Plank, Christina | §99 Guest Professorship for Eastern European Studies |
| Pot, Mirjam | Interpretative Policy Research, Critical Policy Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Health Policy, Personalized Medicine, Theories and Practices of Solidarity |
| Prainsack, Barbara (Head of Department, managing) | 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 | University Assistant Prae Doc, in the research field of International Politics |
| Pribersky, Andreas (Erasmuscoordinator) | Visual Studies, Political Symbols and Rituals, Visual Policy, Eastern European Studies, EU Enlargement, Political Cultures, Comparative Political Science, Political Anthropology |
| Raffa, Monja | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Rajic, Danijela | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Riesinger, Katharina | Student project assistant in the research projects InsSciDE – Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe & KNOW-VACC: Knowledge production and governance in vaccination policy |
| Rosenberger, Sieglinde (Deputy Head of Department) | Inclusion and Exclusion in the context of Migration, Austrian Politics and Europeanization, Governance and Differences/Diversity, Political Participation and Protest |
| Sauer, Birgit (Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences) | Gender and Politics, Political Representation of Women, Critical State, Governance and Democracy Studies, Gender and Governance, Politics and Emotions, Right-wing populism |
| Schlögl, Lukas | Comparative policy analysis in the context of economic and technological change; the future of work; post-industrialisation; development policy; Southeast Asia; |
| Schoeller, Magnus | EU economic and monetary policy, Eurozone crisis management, Germany and Franco-German relationship in E(M)U, the European Parliament in EU policies |
| Schreier, Stefan | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Schweitzer, Reinhard | Migration and integration, citizenship and belonging, asylum and migration policy (making), irregular migration, critical border studies, migration and fundamental rights |
| Seisl, Benedikt | Political Theory, Theory of Democracy, Political Economy, European Integration and Europeanization |
| Slominski, Peter | European Integration with focus on EU energy policy, the EU's fight against climate change |
| Spahl, Wanda | Social Policy, Public Health, Citizenship Studies, Qualitative Methods, Migration Studies |
| Spurny, Katharina | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Sowa, Florian | Administrative staff of the EIF – Centre for European Integration Research |
| Stachowitsch, Saskia | Critical Security and Military Studies, Feminist and postcolonial International Relations, Security privatization, private security and military companies, Gender, Security and Military; Integration of women in the military , EU Border Security, transnational actors (e.g. Frontex), Parliamentarianism, Antisemitism and political Jewish history in Austria |
| Stadlmair, Jeremias | Citizenship, Austrian Politics, political participation, direct democracy, politics of inclusion/exclusion, immigrant integration |
| Stiegler, Josefa Maria | Critical Security Studies, Feminist International Relations, Security and Gender, Urban Dimensions of Security and Militarization of Urban Spaces, Feminist Urban Studies |
| Tessnow von Wysocki, Ina | International Cooperation, Environmental Policy, Marine Plastic Pollution |
| Thiele, Daniel | Critical theory, gender studies, right-wing populism, political communication, quantitative methods |
| Tolochko, Petro | Scientific researcher, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| Tzanetakis, Meropi | Digital Technology, Governance of Markets, Cryptomarkets, Cross-border Crime, Illicit Drug Markets, Security Policy, Health Policy |
| Vadrot, Alice | Global Environmental Politics, Practices, discourses and institutions in international biodiversity politics, Institutions interfacing science and policy & global environmental assessments, Knowledge and power in intergouvernemental negotiations, Conflicts over the legitimacy of scientific and non-scientific environmental knowledge in international politics |
| Wolter, Stella | Collective Identity, Intersectionality, Migration, Postcolonial Theory, Theories of Power and Governance |
| Zardo, Federica (currently on leave) | EU neighbourhood policy, EU development policy (especially towards the Mediterranean and the Middle East); EU democracy promotion (Arab countries); EU migration policy |
| Zeller, Florian | Right Wing Extremism Research, Gender and Politics and Political Theory |