Members
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SPEAKER
Professor of Empirical Economics
Research focus: Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Economics of Migration, Economics of Education and Political Economy
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VICE SPEAKER
Associate Professor for International Relations
Research focus: Foreign policy analysis, US foreign and security policy, (counter)terrorism and methodological questions of the study of international relations
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Assistant Professor for Political Economy
Research focus: Micro-foundation of national welfare states and taxation systems in developing democracies in the Latin American context
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PhD Candidate at the Department of Public Finance
Research focus: Financing Loss and Damage
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PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics
Research focus: tba
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Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science
Research Focus: his research lies at the intersection of Political Economy, Political Behavior, and Political Psychology. His studies focus on political and economic behavior in representative democracies with a special focus on how social identity relationships influence citizens' choices.
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Assistant Professor in Enviromental Economics
Research Focus: Environmental Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics. I mainly use laboratory and field experiments to study the optimal design of environmental policy instruments.
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Fabian Jonas Habersack
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science
Research Focus: The influence of right-wing populist parties on spatial party competition as well as democracy and representation, with a special research interest in quantitative methods as well as in the Austrian political system.
In the spotlight: https://youtu.be/Jz2ZPTgrJSM
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Horst HackaufSenior Lecturer at the Departmen of Sociology
Research Focus: His research focuses on health research, youth and health, poverty and inequality research, quantitative social research (especially longitudinal analyses), international country comparisons, educational theory/sociology, sociology of youth, and sociological theory.Programmatic Advertising, Mouse Tracking, Rating Systems
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Marcelo Jenny
Professor at the Department of Political Science
https://twitter.com/marcelojenny
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcelo-Jenny
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Sebastian Kupek
PhD Candidate at the Department of Public Finance
Research Focus: tba
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Lisa Lechner
Assistant professor for methods and methodology in political science
Research Focus: trade policy, tax policy, diffusion, and issue-linkage
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Andrea Leiter-Scheiring
Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Theory, Economic Policy and Economic History
Research Focus: Environmental Economics, International Economics, Microeconomics, Health Economics.
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Camilla Mariotto
PostDoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science
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Florian Morath
Professor of Public Economics
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Bernadette Müller Kmet
Department of Sociology
Research Focus: identity studies, international comparative social research, migration studies, sociology of education, and social inequality.
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Doris Anita Oberdabernig
Professor of Economics in Particular Enviromental Economics
Research Focus: tba
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Regine Oexl
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics
Research Focus: Behavioral Economics, Discrimination, Reciprocity, Contests. My primary research method involves using experiments to understand behavioral responses to incentives.
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Andreas Pehr
PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science
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Michael PfaffermayrProfessor of Economics
Research Focus: international and industrial economics, panel and spatial econometrics and especially the field of foreign direct investment, multinational firms and trade.
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Katharina Pöll
PhD Candidate at the Department of Public Finance
Research Focus: tba
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Johann Scharler
Professor at the Department of Economics
Research Focus: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and International Economics
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Rupert Sendlhofer
Professor at the Department of Public Finance
Research Focus:
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Martin Senn
Associate Professor of International Relations
Research Focus: (Critical) Security Studies, international order, ideas and ideational change, political communication, and the (non)proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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Robert Steiger
Associate Professor at the Department of Public Finance
Research Focus: sustainable tourism development, regional economics, behavioral economics (tourist behavior) and climate change impacts on tourism
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Herbert StockerAssociate Professor at the Department of Economics
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Philipp Umek
PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Election Studies
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Wilfred Uunk
Professor at the Department of Sociology
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David Willumsen
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science
Reseach Focus: Political Party Research as well as Research on Legislative Process, European Politics, Electoral Studies and Quantitative Methods.