The team of scientific and administrative colleagues at the department.
| Name | Work and Research fields |
| Ataç, Ilker | Immigration Policy, Citizenship Studies, Social Movements, Civil Society and Migration, Turkish Economics and Politics |
| Bargetz, Brigitte | Gender and Politics, Critical Science Literacy, Affect Studies, Theories of Everyday Life, Queer Feminist Theories, Cultural Studies, Democracy Theory and Political Theory |
| Bernhardt, Petra | Visual Political Communication, Strategic Communication, Political Advertising and Branding, Photojournalism, Iconographies of Terror and Violence, Qualitative Visual Methods |
| Brad, Alina | International envrionmental and resource politics, political ecology, politics of scale, socio-ecological conflicts, regional focus: South East Asia |
| Brand, Ulrich (Deputy Head of Department, currently on scientific leave) | International Politics, Critical State, Governance and Globalization Studies, International Political Ecology, Economic Policy, Environmental Policy, Democracy Theory and Political Theory |
| Chmilewski, Katja | Feminist Political Theories, Labor and Social Policy, Social Movements |
| Egger, Manuela | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Exner, Andreas | Scientific employee, research area International Politics |
| Flatscher, Matthias | Political Theory, Language and Social Philosophy, Political Ideas, Democracy Theories and Discourses of Alterity |
| Garnitschnig, Ines | Scientific project employee: Making Democracy. Negotiations on freedom, equality and solidarity among young people |
| 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 |
| Graf, Irene | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Grahofer, Jutta | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Haselbacher, Miriam | Migration Policy, Integration Research |
| Hasenöhrl, Syntia | Gender and Politics, Mobility Studies, Diaspora Politics, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Discourse Studies |
| Hattmannsdorfer, Helena | Migration Policy, Integration Research, European and National Asylum Politics, Ethnography, Gender Studies |
| Kathan, Michaela | Organizational Assistant, administrative staff of the Department |
| Köpl, Regina | Feminist Science Criticism, Politics of Gender Relations, Subjectivity and Subject Concept, Industrial Culture, Media-Power-Society |
| Krischek, Caroline | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Kumnig, Sarah | Scientific employee, research area International Politics |
| Liebhart, Karin (Senior Lecturer, Vice-Director of Studies) | Comparative Political Science (in particular Political Cultures and Identities), EU Integration and Enlargement Process, Political Memory, Gender Studies, Visual Studies Qualitative Research Methods |
| Ludwig, Gundula (currently on scientific leave) | Political Theory: State-, Power- and Democracy Theories, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Body Theories |
| Marchart, Oliver (Head of Department) | Political Theory, Theory of Society, Theory of Democracy, History of Political Ideas, Social Movement Research, Precariousness Research, Political Discourse Analysis |
| 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-Uri, Fanny | Racism research, Antimuslim racism, Feminist Theories, Critical Migration Research, Postcolonial and Capitalism criticism |
| Naue, Ursula (Senior Lecturer) | Disability Politics and Policies, Politics of Dementia and Age(ing), Participation Research, Inclusion Research |
| Novak, Christoph | Critical migration research; Empirical social research; Feminist, postmigration and postcolonial studies; Critical whiteness studies; Racism |
| Olteanu, Tina | Eastern European Studies, Democratic Research, Transformation, Participation and Corruption Research |
| Paul, Katharina T. | Health Policy, Vaccination Policy, Regulation, Medical & Biopolitics, Critical Policy Analysis, Interpretative Policy Research |
| 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 |
| Pribersky, Andreas (Erasmuscoordinator) | Visual Studies, Political Symbols and Rituals, Visual Policy, Eastern European Studies, EU Enlargement, Political Cultures, Comparative Political Science, Political Anthropology |
| Radhuber, Isabella | Political economy and ecology, natural resource regimes, Latin America and Europe, plurinationality, postcolonialitys |
| Raffa, Monja | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Rajal, Elke | Politics of the past, anti-Semitism, National Socialism and the Shoah, education (political education, holocaust education, critical education on anti-Semitism and racism, pedagogy of migration) |
| Rajic, Danijela | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Rosenberger, Sieglinde | Inclusion and Exclusion in the context of Migration, Austrian Politics and Europeanization, Governance and Differences/Diversity, Political Participation and Protest |
| Sauer, Birgit | Gender and Politics, Political Representation of Women, Critical State, Governance and Democracy Studies, Gender and Governance, Politics and Emotions, Right-wing populism |
| Schneider, Etienne | International Relations, International Political Economy, Eurozone crisis, European economic and monetary integration, Monetary Policy, Industrial Policy |
| Schreier, Stefan | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Schütze, Theresa | Politics of inclusion and exclusion, Inside the Deportation Gap: Social Membership for Non-Deported Persons |
| Spöri, Tobias | Political Participation, Political Socialization, Eastern Europe, Legacy of State Socialism, Transformation Processes |
| Stachowitsch, Saskia | Feminist International Relations, Security Studies, and Global Political Economy; gender and security, security privatization, and securitization of migration; gender and the military; antisemitism, parliamentarianism, and political Jewish history in Austria |
| Starkbaum, Johannes | Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, public policy, qualitative Methoden, Wissenschaft, Medizin und Innovation |
| Steurer, Walburg | Critical Policy Analysis, Interpretive Policy Analysis, Healthcare Policies, End-of-life Policies, Public Engagement |
| Stiegler, Josefa Maria | Feminist Theory, Feminist Urban Studies, Security and Gender, Mobility and Gender |
| Udrea, Titus | Civil Society, Interest Groups, New Forms of Civic Representation and Participation, Social Movements, European Public Sphere, Social Network Analysis |
| Vadrot, Alice B. M. | Erwin Schrödinger Fellow of the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) |
