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 |
| Bohle, Dorothee (Deputy Head of Department) | 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 (Head of Department) | 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 |
| Brogat, Emmanuelle | Research Administration and coordination, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| 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 |
| Drgac, Deborah | Social science reasearch, Health related studies in all policies, qualitative research |
| Dursun, Ayse | Feminist Theory, Policies of Gender Equality, Intersecionality, Social movements, Migration |
| Egger, Manuela | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| El-Sayed, Seliem | Comparative political and legal studies, regulation and governance, public policy, big data and artificial intelligence, data protection and privacy, anti-discrimination, Computational Social Science |
| 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 |
| Flatscher, Matthias | Political Theory, Language and Social Philosophy, Political Ideas, Democracy Theories and Discourses of Alterity |
| Fuhrmann, Phoebe Ruth | Research Administration and coordination, ERC Research Project PREDEF – Prefiguring Democratic Futures. Cultural and Theoretical Responses to the Crisis of Political Imagination |
| 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 |
| Gmoser, Susanne | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Gold-Ponesch, Sarah (currently on leave) | 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 |
| Harjes, Caitlin | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Hasenauer, Anna | Student research assistant in the research project Cultures of Rejection (CuRe) |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| Kalleitner, Fabian | Economic Sociology, Sociology of labor markets, labor market transformation and technological change, work values, digitalization, inequality and preferences for redistribution, tax politics, survey methodology, quantitative research methods. |
| Kathan, Michaela | Department coordinator, administrative staff of the Department |
| Kettner, Verena | Feminist Political Theories, Queertheory, Affects and Emotions, Body Politics, Feminist Political Economy |
| Kieslich, Katharina | 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. |
| 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" |
| Krischek, Caroline | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Langlet, Arne | International and European environmental policy, the political economy of environmental and climate policy and the study of international institutions and regimes |
| Liebhart, Karin (ERASMUS coordinator, Mobility coordinator, Senior Lecturer) | Visual Political Communication; Discursive and Visual Representations of Politics; Rightwing Populism and Rightwing Extremism; Gender Studies; Memory Politics and Remembrance Cultures; Qualitative Methods |
| Löffler, Marion | Critical theories of state and democracy, gender-theories and gender research in political science, political masculinities, fictional literature as political theory, political rhetoric and discourse analysis, research in democracy and parliamentarianism |
| Lux, Anna-Sophie | Student project assistant in the research project "What determines EU sanctions? Design choice and exemptions" |
| 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 |
| Mourão Permoser, Julia | Austrian and European Politics; Migration and Integration; Asylum; Religion and Politics; Inclusion and Exclusion; Democracy; Human Rights; Social Movements; Liberalism/Illiberalism; Morality Politics |
| Mrovlje, Maša | Contemporary and International Political Theory, Political Judgement, Narrative, Politics of Memory, Complexities of Resistance, Disappointment and Betrayal in Resistance Movements |
| 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 (ERASMUS coordinator, Mobility coordinator, Senior Lecturer) | Disability policy, dementia and age(ing) policy, participation research, inclusion research, human rights implementation |
| Obendiek, Anke | EU policies for the digital age, Internet governance, Digital capitalism, Data governance, International Political Sociology |
| Paul, Katharina T. | Health Policy, Vaccination Policy, Regulation, Medical & Biopolitics, Critical Policy Analysis, Interpretative Policy Research |
| Pflug, Rebekka | University assistant (prae doc) in the research area Comparative Politics, focus on Southeast and Eastern Europe |
| 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 (currently on leave) | Resource and environmental policy, socio-ecological conflicts, Political Ecology, Political Economy, regional focus: Latin America |
| Prendinger, Sonja | Administration of the Research Platform Governance of digital practices |
| Pribersky, Andreas | Visual Studies, Political Symbols and Rituals, Visual Policy, Eastern European Studies, EU Enlargement, Political Cultures, Comparative Political Science, Political Anthropology |
| Radhuber, Isabella | Global inequalities; Environmental, climate and resource politics; Decolonization, postcolonialism and broader questions of societal democratization; Regional focus: Latin America; Social and political dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and Latin America |
| Radl, Marlene | Feminist Political Economy, Feminist State Theory, Mediapopulism |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Steig, Florian | International Climate Politics, Climate Adaptation, Critical Theories, International Political Economy, Political Ecology |
| Tessnow-von Wysocki, Ina | International Cooperation, Environmental Policy, Marine Plastic Pollution |
| Thiele, Daniel | Critical theory, gender studies, right-wing populism, political communication, quantitative methods |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wanneau, Krystel | Intersection of environmental politics, expertise and international organizations, with special focus on the United Nations environmental programme (UNEP) |
| Weithaler, Anna | Political Theory (esp. Radical Democratic Theory and Theories of Solidarity), History of Political Ideas , Theories of Education, Aesthetics |
| Wintersperger, Andreas | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Wolkenstein, Fabio | Democratic Theory, Political Parties and Representation, Political Ideologies (esp. Christian Democracy and Social Democracy) |