Members

Barbara BÜHLER
Mag.^a (FH), Bakk.phil.
Social worker and sociologist

Chairwoman NÖ Armutsnetzwerk:
www.noe-armutsnetzwerk.at

Research Topics:

• Poverty and social inequality
• Mental illness and work rehabilitation

Claudia EDER
DDr.ⁱⁿ
claudia.eder(a)oss.at

+43 1 80182-0
Assistant Doctor for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery , cell biologist, laboratory manager Spine Research Laboratory

Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna-Speising
Spine Centre/ Department for Spinal surgery
Speisinger Str 109
1130 Wien
www.oss.at
Research Topics:

• Research at the interface of fundamental and applied research
• Tissue Engineering and Regenerative medicine for the musculoskeletal system
• Evaluation and optimization of treatment methods
• Prevention of postoperative infections
• Alternatives to animal testing in biomedical research

Isabella ELLINGER
Ass.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Dipl. Ing.ⁱⁿ
isabella.ellinger(a)medunwien.ac.at
+43-1-40400-5131

Cell Biologist, Principal Investigator, Basic and Applied Research and Teaching Assignments at the Medical University of Vienna
Medical University Vienna
Center for Pathophysiology, Infektiology and Immunology
Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research
Währinger Gürtel 18-20 5/
1090 Wien

www.meduniwien.ac.at/isabellaellinger-group

Research Topics:

• Cell Biology
• Uptake, traffic and effect of maternal macromolecules at the materno-fetal interface
• Melatonin and bloodpressure regulation
• Automated detection of cell and tissue structures

Dorothea ERHARTER
Dipl. Ing.ⁱⁿ
d.e(a)zimd.at
+43(0)0699-1136 9902

Managing Director
ZIMD Center for Interaktion, Media & sozial Diversity
Währinger Straße 81/12
1180 Wien
www.zimd.at

Systemic Coaching and Management Consulting
www.doroerharter.at

Topics:

• Gendability
• Girls & Women into Technology
• Consulting for Gender Mainstreaming in Organisations
• Moderator of Systemic Consensus Solutions
• Usability for technology-distant Users
• Cooperative Society

Ursula FÖGER-SAMWALD
Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
ursula.foeger-samwald(a)meduniwien.ac.at

+43-1-40400-56940
Medical University of Vienna
Centre for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology
Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research
Division of Cellular and Molecular Pathophysiology
Währinger Gürtel 18-20
1090 Vienna
http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/hp/ipa

Research Topics:

• Cellular and molecular pathohysiology of bone diseases
• Osteoporosis

Simone GINGRICH
Mag.^aDrⁱⁿ
simone.gingrich(a)boku.ac.at

Senior Scientist
Institute of Social Ecology
Department of Economics and Social Sciences
University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)
Schottenfeldgasse 29
1070 Vienna
Austria
boku.ac.at/wiso/sec/

Research areas:

• Long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) at local to global scales
• Material environmental history
• Changes of sustainability problems during industrialization
• Land and resource use
• Socio-ecological metabolism
• Application of socio-metabolic accounting to various spatio-temporal contexts
• Inter- and transdisciplinary research

Susanne GRUBER
Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
susanne.gruber(a)aon.at
Principal investigator - Research in Commodity Science and History of Technology

Forschungsverein für Warenlehre und angewandte Naturwissenschaften
Gartenweg 24
2120 Obersdorf

www.warenlehre.at

• Establishing a collection of commodities
• Commodity science
• History of science and technology
• Life cycle
• Museology
• Ecology - environmental life and actions
• Education and outreach projects
• Symposium organization
• Training of teachers
• Networked thinking

Claudia GUNDACKER
Assoc. Prof.ⁱⁿ PD.ⁱⁿ Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
claudia.gundacker(a)meduniwien.ac.at

Medical University Vienna
Institut für Medizinische Genetik
Zentrum für Pathobiochemie und Genetik
Währinger Gürtel 18-20
1090 Wien

• Medical ecology 
• Environmental health 
• Metabolism and transport of metals (mercury, iron, lead and cadmium) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the human placenta.

Sabine HAMMER
Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
Molecular Geneticist, Senior-Scientist, Basic and Applied Research and Teaching Assignments at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
sabine.hammer(a)phylo-dat.net

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Department of Pathobiology, Institut of Immunology
Veterinaerplatz 1
1210 Vienna

http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/immunologie/

Daniela HÄUSLER
Mag^aDrⁱⁿ

Research Topics:

• Medical Advisor
• Strategic Consulting & Specialist Counselling Medicine
• Coordination of Clinical Studies
• Funding
• Project Management
• Scientific Projects:
  Molecular Imaging, Oncology, Neurosciences, Development of PET and SPECT-Tracers

Babette HEBENSTREIT
DIⁱⁿ
babette.hebenstreit(a)fhv.at
+43 5572 792 5702

FH Vorarlberg
Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
Department for Energy Efficiency
Campus V
Hochschulstraße 1
6850 Dornbirn
www.fhv.at

Research Topics:

• Energy from biomass
• Simulation of biomass-based heating systems
• Fundamental and applied research

Ulrike HERBIG
Dipl-Ing.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ
+43(1)58801 25119
herbig(a)tuwien.ac.at

Senior Scientist
Department of Spatial Planning and
Research Group History of Art and Building Archaeology
Karlsplatz 13/251-1
1040 Wien
baugeschichte.tuwien.ac.at

Managing director
ICRA-Institute for Comparative Research in Architecture
www.iva-icra.org

Research Topics:

• Recording and documentation of architecture,
• Innovative methods for recording in building archaeology,
• non-european building traditions,
• interdisciplinary research for the built environment and architectural cultural heritage

Andrea HÖGLINGER
Mag^a
+43 5 7755 4001
andrea.hoeglinger(a)ffg.at

Bereichsleitung Europäische und Internationale Programme
Die Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft FFG
Sensengasse 1
1090 Wien
ffg.at

Enikö KALLAY
Ass.-Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Mag.^a
Research and teaching at the MedUniWien

Medical University Vienna
Centre for Pathophysiology, Infektiology and Immunology, Institute for Pathophysiology and Allergy Research
Währinger Gürtel 18-20
1090 Wien

http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/hp/ipa/forschung/forschungsgruppen/kallay-enikoe-tumour-pathology/
http://www.multifaceted-casr.org

Karen KASTENHOFER
Dr.ⁱⁿ
kkast(a)oeaw.ac.at

Österr. Akademie d. Wissenschaften
Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung
Strohgassse 45
1030 Wien

Bente KNOLL
Dipl.-Ing.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ
bente.knoll(a)b-nk.at

Büro für nachhaltige Kompetenz

Research Topics:

• Gender Planning 
• Mobility Research 
• Gender Studies in Engineering 
•  Sustainability Research 
•  Environmental Sciences 
•  Communication and mediation of complex topics to different target groups

Corinna KOSCHMIEDER
Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
corinna(a)co-schmiede.at

University of Graz & University of Teacher Education Styria und 
Co-Schmiede www.co-schmiede.at

Research Topics:

• Prerequisites for future study & career success 
•  Psychological test development 
•  Individual support in the classroom 
•  New forms of work

Main Working Area:

• Research Funding 
•  Conflict Management 
•  Coaching & Organizational Development

Ruth KUTALEK
Priv.-Doz.ⁱⁿ Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
ruth.kutalek(a)meduniwien.ac.at

Medical University Vienna
Zentrum für Public Health
www.meduniwien.ac.at
Kinderspitalgasse 15/I
1090 Wien

Research Topics:

• Medical Anthropology
• Anthropology Infectious Diseases
• Migration and Health
• Ethno-pharmacology
• Countries: Austria, Uganda, Tanzania, Liberia

Marion LUGER
Mag.^a
Historikerin & Germanistin, Geschäftsführerin
m.luger(a)geschichtswert.at
+43(0)699 / 107 83 454

Magdalenengasse 15
A-2540 Bad Vöslau

Research Topics:

• History of Companies
• History of Houses
• History of Products
• Genealogy
• Creating genealogical trees

Ildiko MERTA
Dipl-Ing.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Mag.^a
imerta(a)hochbau.tuwien.ac.at

Bauingenieurin - Hertha Firnberg post-doc
Technical University of Vienna
Institut f. Hochbau und Technologie
Karlsplatz 13/206/4
1040 Wien

www.hochbau.tuwien.ac.at/

Research Topics:

• Concrete
• Fibre reinforced concrete
• Natural fibre concrete
• NLP optimization

Hannah METZLER
Mag.^aDr.ⁱⁿ

Cognitive Neuroscientist and Psychologist
Complexity Science Hub & Medical University of Vienna

https://hannahmetzler.eu/

Research Topics:

• Collective emotions
• Social media
• Media effects research for suicide prevention
• Social cognition and behaviour
• Embodiment
• Open Science

Andrea NUSSBAUMER
Dr.ⁱⁿ Mag.^a
+43-1-4277-764-38
andrea.nussbaumer@univie.ac.at

Projektleiterin, FWF / P 25646-B22
Transmission, maintenance and cell cycle in the Endoriftia - Riftia symbiosis: Immunodetection of symbiont effector proteins (2013 - 2016)
Department of Limnology and Oceanography
University of Vienna
Althanstr. 14
A-1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA
http://www.hydrothermalvent.com

Research Topics:

• Marine Biology
• Deep-sea research
• Symbioseforschung
• Immunology in vertebrates

Jutta PAUSCHENWEIN
Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
Head of ZML-Innovative Learning Scenarious

ZML-Innovative Lernszenarien
FH JOANNEUM
Eggenberger Allee 11
8020 Graz

Topics of eLearning:

• Pedagogy of eLearning
• cooperative eLearning
• use of social media
• development and support of communities of practice
• gender (mainstreaming) in eLearning

Vitore SHALA-MAYRHOFER
DI Dr.ⁱⁿ
v.shala-mayrhofer(a)lk-oe.at
v.shala(a)gmx.at
+43 1 53441-8538

Austrian Chamber of Agriculture
Schauflergasse 6
1014 Wien

www.lko.at
www.warndienst.at

Prof. ass. - block course
University of Prishtina
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture and Viticulture
10000 Kosovo

Research Topics:

• Phytopathology
• Plant Protection
• Laboratory diagnostic
• Identification of diseases caused by fungi

Anna STREISSLER
Mag.^a Dr.ⁱⁿ
anna.streissler(a)umweltbildung.at
+43 1 402 47 01 DW19
„FORUM Umweltbildung“ (Environmental education FORUM)
Strozzigasse 10
1080 Wien
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, UNIVIE
anna.streissler(a)univie.ac.at
Universitätsstraße 7, 4.Stock
A–1010 Wien

Research Topics:

• Interdisciplinary School and Educational Research:
  • Expertise for Education for Sustainable Development
  • professionalism development of teachers
  • evaluations of innovative teaching projects within the frame of IMST3
• ethnological research on child and youth cultures

Dana (Slobodanka) TOMIC
Dipl-Ing.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ tech.
dana.tomic(a)smartbow.at
+43(0)660/6577293

Smartbow GmbH
Maria-Jacobi-Gasse 1
1030 Wien

• System and software architecture, development of a Big Data platform
• Cognitive IoT, smart interfaces
• Knowledge graph development
• Open data

Aleksandra VEDERNJAK
Mag.^a

aleksandra.vedernjak(a)univie.ac.at
aleksandra.films(a)gmail.com
+43 699 10504965
University Vienna Gender Initiativ Kolleg (- 2013) www.gik.univie.ac.at
University lecturer (Sociology/Communications, 2014-)
Department of Development Studies
Documentary film-maker
SEE.ID- In Dialogue with South-Eastern Europe
Adelheid-Popp-Gasse 5/ 8/ 5,
1220 Wien

Research Topics:

• Transnationale Migration
• South Caucasus
• South East Europe
• Feminist Postcolonial Theory Agency
• Interface Projects Science / Culture
• Use of documentary films
• feminist work with girls

KARIN WRIESSNIG
DIⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ
karin.wriessnig(a)boku.ac.at

Universität für Bodenkultur

Shokufeh ZAMINI
DI.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ
Scientist

AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology

Research Topics:

• Photovoltaics
• renewable energy

Katharina ZMELIK
Mag.^a
katharina.zmelik(a)ph-ooe.at

Pädagogische Hochschule OÖ
Department of Science Education: Biology
Kaplanhofstrasse 40
4020 Linz

Research Topics:

• ecological analysis of plant communities
• landscape analysis
• conservation biology