Supervisor Overview
Advanced Research School in Law and Jurisprudence
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Arbeitsrecht, Sozialrecht, Europäisches Arbeitsrecht, Kollektives Arbeitsrecht, Arbeitskampfrecht
Weblink for further information: https://arbeitsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/brameshuber-elisabeth/
Email: elisabeth.brameshuber(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht, Klimaschutz- und Umweltrecht
Weblink for further information: https://staatsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/damjanovic-dragana/
Email: dragana.damjanovic(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Österreichisches Verfassungsrecht, insb Staatsorganisationsrecht; Österreichisches Verwaltungsrecht, insb Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht, Handlungsformen und Rechtsschutz; Schnittstelle von Verfassungsrecht, Verwaltungsrecht und europäischem Unionsrecht; Europäisches Verfassungsrecht; Internationales und Vergleichendes Öffentliches Recht
Weblink for further information: https://staatsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/eberhard-harald/
Email: harald.eberhard(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Innovations- und Technologierecht, Grund- und Menschenrechtsschutz sowie die Schnittstelle von Recht, Innovation und Gesellschaft
Weblink for further information: https://id.univie.ac.at/team/univ-prof-dr-iris-eisenberger-msc-lse/
Email: iris.eisenberger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
nationales, europäisches und internationales Migrationsrecht, insbesondere Teilhaberechte, Arbeitsmigration und Bürgerschaft im transnationalen Kontext; europäisches und deutsches Verfassungsrecht, insbesondere Solidaritäts- und Anerkennungskonflikte im Verfassungsrecht; Grund- und Menschenrechtsschutz, insbesondere soziale Rechte und Ungleichheitskonflikte; Vergleichendes Verfassungsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://staatsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/farahat-anuscheh/
Email: anuscheh.farahat(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Globalization of Law in a historical perspective, colonial and postcolonial legal history, entanglements in legal history, transculturality and cultural translation in law, praxeological approaches to legal history, legal pluralism
East Asian legal history of the 19th and 20th centuries
Contemporary legal history, National Socialist law, post-World War II legal scholarship and trials, transitional justice
Weblink for further information: https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/team/lena-foljanty/
Email: lena.foljanty(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
IT-Recht, Datenschutzrecht, Legal Tech, Digitalisierung, Informationsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://id.univie.ac.at/team/univ-prof-dr-nikolaus-forgo/
Email: nikolaus.forgo(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Nationaler, supra- und internationaler Grund- und Menschenrechtsschutz, sowie korrespondierende Themen in den Bereichen Verfassungs-, Völker- und Europarecht und Allgemeine Staatslehre und Staatsphilosophie
Weblink for further information: https://staatsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/fremuth-michael-lysander/
Email: michael-lysander.fremuth(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Strafrecht, Kriminologie, Strafprozessrecht, Wirtschaftsstrafrecht
Weblink for further information: https://strafrecht.univie.ac.at/team/emeritierte-professoren/grafl-christian/
Email: christian.grafl(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Steuerrecht, Europäisches Steuerrecht, Internationales Steuerrecht,
Weblink for further information: https://finanzrecht.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/univ-prof-dr-caroline-heber-mtaxsydney/
Email: caroline.heber(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Comparative Civil Procedural Law and Dispute Resolution,
Private International and Procedural Law
Interfaces between private and public international law
Weblink for further information: https://zvr.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/hess-burkhard/
Email: burkhard.hess(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Legal and political philosophy, theory of justice and human rights, legal gender and queer studies, law, literature and (popular) culture.
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/elisabeth-holzleithner/
Email: elisabeth.holzleithner(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Europarecht, Binnenmarktrecht, Wettbewerbsrecht, Recht der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion
Weblink for further information: https://deicl.univie.ac.at/team/jaeger-thomas/
Email: thomas.jaeger@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Zivilrecht, Schadenersatzrecht, Haftungsrecht, Vertragsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/team/karner-ernst/
Email: ernst.karner(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Besteuerung der nationalen und internationalen Kapitalveranlagung, Internationale Konzernbesteuerung, Einkommensteuer, Körperschaftsteuer, Öffentliches Haushaltsrecht, Finanzausgleich, Digitalisierung im materiellen Steuerrecht, Umweltsteuer, Werbeabgabe,, Glückspielabgabe, sonstige Verbrauchsteuern, Rechtsmittelverfahren
Weblink for further information: https://finanzrecht.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/univ-profdr-sabine-kirchmayr-schliesselberger/
Email: sabine.kirchmayr(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Grundlagenforschung im Schuldrecht, Sachenrecht und Erbrecht (an der Schnittstelle zum Zivilverfahrensrecht und/oder unter Berücksichtigung seiner internationalen und europäischen Bezüge sowie der Digitalisierung)
Weblink for further information: https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/team/kogler-gabriel/
Email: gabriel.kogler(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
International Dispute Resolution, European Civil Procedure Law, International Arbitration, International Restructuring and Insolvency Law, and Civil Procedure Law.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
The Harmonization of Insolvency Law in Europe; Asset Tracing in Enforcement and Insolvency Law; Data as Assets in Enforcement and Insolvency Law; Artificial Intelligence as a Tool in Restructuring and Insolvency Law; The Application of Legal Tech Tools in Dispute Resolution.
Weblink for further information: https://zvr.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/koller-christian/
Email: christian.koller(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
International Investment Law and Arbitration
Business and human rights arbitration
Weblink for further information: https://eur-int-comp-law.univie.ac.at/team/kriebaum-ursula/
Email: ursula.kriebaum(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Rechtsgeschichte, Verfassungsgeschichte, Rechtsvergleichung
Weblink for further information: https://rechtsphilosophie.univie.ac.at/team/kuehler-anne/
Email: anne.kuehler(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My principal areas of research are private international law and comparative law, including litigation and arbitration. While I specialise in cross-border banking law, financial law and regulation, I also cover the full breadth of European business law and European private law. My team is very diverse, typically covering multiple nationalities (in the past we had persons from England, France, China, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, and many other countries). Our principal working language is English. A PhD thesis can be written either in English or in German.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
1. A topic in comparative law, e.g. comparisons with US, English, French, Spanish, Swiss or any other law
2. A topic of private international law (conflict of laws), including family, succession, tort, contract and corporate law
3. Conflict of laws in arbitration (e.g. characterisation, the role of soft law, overriding mandatory rules)
4. A topic in uniform law (e.g. CISG, UPICC, COTIF, CIV/CIM, UCP 600)
5. Uniform European rules for the assignment of claims
5. The simplification of EU law
6. Verified carbon credits: legal nature and applicable rules
7. Investment funds: the applicable private law rules
8. Access of European investors to private equity
9. The 28th regime and European private law
10. The codification of European business law
11. Bank regulation, e.g. capital requirements, fit and proper tests
12. Bank resolution and insolvency
13. The law and regulation of Fintechs
14. Intermediated securities
15. SPACs
16. The law governing stablecoins
17. Comparison of stablecoin regulation around the world
18. The law governing tokenisation
19. Extraterritoriality in banking/financial law
20. Modern payment systems
Weblink for further information: https://eur-int-comp-law.univie.ac.at/team/lehmann-matthias/
Email: matthias.lehmann(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Strafrecht, Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie
Weblink for further information: https://strafrecht.univie.ac.at/team/lewisch-peter/
Email: peter.lewisch@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Einkommensteuer, Körperschaftsteuer, Konzern-/Gruppenbesteuerung, Europäische Unternehmensbesteuerung, Internationale Umstrukturierung
Weblink for further information: https://finanzrecht.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/univ-profddr-gunter-mayr/
Email: gunter.mayr(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Arbeitsrecht, Sozialrecht, Familienrecht, Medizinrecht
Weblink for further information: https://arbeitsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/ehemalige-professoren/mazal-wolfgang/
Email: wolfgang.mazal(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Römisches Recht, Privatrecht, (Privat-) Rechtsgeschichte
Weblink for further information: https://roemr.univie.ac.at/team/franz-stefan-meissel/
Email: franz.stefan.meissel(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Zivilverfahrensrecht, das internationale Zivilverfahrensrecht, die Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, das Gesellschafts-, Schuld- und Sachenrecht sowie die Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsvergleichung auf den genannten Gebieten
Weblink for further information: https://zvr.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/oberhammer-paul/
Email: paul.oberhammer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Internationales Privatrecht, Rechtsvergleichung, Österreichisches und Europäisches Zivilrecht insbesondere Wohn- und Immobilienrecht, Medizinrecht, Tourismus- und Reiserecht, Familienrecht, Schadenersatz und Gewährleistung
Weblink for further information: https://deicl.univie.ac.at/team/ofner-helmut/
Email: helmut.ofner(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Rechtsgeschichte, Verfassungsgeschichte, Rechtsvergleichung
Weblink for further information: https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/team/thomas-olechowski/
Email: thomas.olechowski(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Grundrechte, Rechtsschutz, Staatsorganisation, Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht, Forschungsrecht, Gewerberecht, Migrationsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://staatsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/poeschl-magdalena/
Email: magdalena.poeschl(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Zivilrecht, Erbrecht, Familienrecht, Vertragsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/team/rabl-christian/
Email: christian.rabl@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Strafverfolgung und Grundrechtsschutz (va geheime Überwachung und Datensammlung im Allgemeinen), Aufgaben und Verantwortungsbereiche von Polizei und Justiz in der Strafverfolgung, Computer- und Internetstrafrecht, Ausgewählte Bereiche des Wirtschaftsstrafrechts, zB Korruptionsstrafrecht, Sozialbetrug, kriminelle Organisation
Weblink for further information: https://strafrecht.univie.ac.at/team/reindl-krauskopf-susanne/
Email: susanne.reindl(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Rechtsgeschichte, Verfassungsgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Restitutionsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/team/ilse-reiter-zatloukal/
Email: ilse.reiter-zatloukal@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Investitionsrecht (Enteignung, Treatment Standards und Streitbeilegung), Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht (Extraterritorialität, Wirtschaftssanktionen, WTO-Streitbeilegung), Recht der Internationalen Organisationen (Immunität und Verantwortlichkeit Internationaler Organisationen), Staatenverantwortlichkeit, Internationale Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (Investitionsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit), Europarecht (Außenhandel, EG und WTO), Völkerrecht und innerstaatliches Recht, Staatenimmunität
Weblink for further information: https://deicl.univie.ac.at/team/reinisch-august/
Email: august.reinisch@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Sachenrecht, Kreditsicherungsrecht und Insolvenzrecht, Bankvertragsrecht und Finanzmarktrecht, AGB-Recht und Verbraucherrecht, Bestandrecht und Bauträgervertragsrecht, Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
- jeweils unter Einschluss der europäischen Bezüge
Weblink for further information: https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/team/riss-olaf/
Email: olaf.riss(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Römisches Recht, Römische Rechtsgeschichte (Quellenforschung und Textüberlieferung), Juristische Papyrologie, Byzantinisches Recht
Weblink for further information: https://roemr.univie.ac.at/team/jose-domingo-rodriguez-martin/
Email: jose-domingo.rodriguez@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Unternehmensrecht, Gesellschaftsrecht, Kapitalmarktrecht, Wirtschaftsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://unternehmensrecht.univie.ac.at/team/rueffler-friedrich/
Email: friedrich.rueffler@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
IT- Strafrecht, Polizeirecht, Ermittlungsbefugnisse, Staatsschutzrecht, Terrorismus und organisierte Kriminalität, Internationales Strafrecht, Vermögensstrafrecht, Allgemeines Straf- und Strafprozessrecht
Weblink for further information: https://strafrecht.univie.ac.at/team/salimi-farsam/
Email: farsam.salimi(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Rechtsphilosophie, Verfassungsrecht, Europarecht, Rechtstheorie
Weblink for further information: https://rechtsphilosophie.univie.ac.at/team/somek-alexander/
Email: alexander.somek@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Roman Law (especially Roman Private Law and Procedural Law),
Ancient Greek and Hellenistic Law
Ancient Legal History
Ancient Comparative Law
Ancient History of International Law
Reception of Roman Law
Byzantine Law (especially the Basilica)
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Der römische Richter: Pflichten und Möglichkeiten des iudex privatus
Entstehen normativer Texte: Vom typisierten Sachverhalt zum Tatbestand
Darlehenskonstruktionen in Rom und Athen
Juristen und Rechtsfortbildung
Gebrauchsdiebstahl und Verwendungsanspruch
Entwicklungslinien der römischen Mehrfachverpfändung
Probleme des Bürgschaftsrechts
Cicero als Rechtsquelle
Zum Recht in der Rhetorik des Aristoteles
Die lex Baiuvariorum und das römische Recht
Epigraphik und römisches Privatrecht
Weblink for further information: https://roemr.univie.ac.at/team/philipp-scheibelreiter/
Email: Philipp.Scheibelreiter(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Medical Law (limited to research questions with a public law background) from an (comparative) European and/or Austrian perspective. Research proposals on (medical) AI and data protection will not be handled by the supervisor, as these fall primarily within the comptence of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law. See below for more details
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Due to the diversity of medical law regimes worldwide, proposed research themes require either a European perspective (EU law) or, ideally, - and at least from a comparative viewpoint - some connection to Austrian law. Potential candidates should have a public law background, as this also applies to the supervisor (and potential assessors). Research proposals on (medical) AI and data protection will not be handled by the supervisor, as these fall primarily within the comptence of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law. If these requirements are met, proposals will be considered.
Weblink for further information: https://staatsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/stoeger-karl/
Email: karl.stoeger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Zivilrecht, Internationales Privatrecht, Gesellschaftsrecht, Digitalisierung
Weblink for further information: https://unternehmensrecht.univie.ac.at/team/thomale-chris/
Email
Sekretariat: sabine.tschanter(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Our team focuses on current topics of Austrian and European Commercial, Corporate and Capital Markets Law.
Weblink for further information: www.torggler.info
Email: sekretariat.torggler(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
legal history, History of International Law
Weblink for further information: https://rechtsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/team/milos-vec/
Email: milos.vec(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- International law
- General international law, such as the law of treaties, state responsibility, territory, environment, climate change, territory and statehood, law of the sea)
- International economic law (trade, investment, monetary, finance and tax)
- International dispute settlement, including investor-state arbitration
- Sovereign debt and financial crises
- European Monetary Union
- Law and Economics
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Geopolitics, War & the Economy
- EU Safe Assets
- Bargaining power & coercion in international law-making
- State assets abroad
- Global monetary and tax governance
- Institutional law of the International Monetary Fund
Spaces & the Environment
- Protection of the marine environment
- Submarine Cables and other infrastructure in areas beyond national jurisdiction
- Geoengineering
- Overseas military bases
Weblink for further information: www.michaelwaibel.com
Email: michael.waibel(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Zivilrecht, Verbraucherrecht, Datenschutzrecht, Digitalisierung, Europäisches Privatrecht
Weblink for further information: https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/team/wendehorst-christiane/
Email: christiane.wendehorst(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Staatsorganisationsrecht, Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht, Veraltungsverfahrensrecht
Weblink for further information: https://staatsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/wiederin-ewald/
Email: ewald.wiederin(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Arbeitsrecht, Sozialrecht, Gleichstellungsrecht, Antidiskriminierungsrecht
Weblink for further information: https://arbeitsrecht.univie.ac.at/team/windisch-graetz-michaela/
Email: michaela.windischgraetz@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
International law in general, use of force, law of armed conflict, international tribunals, international criminal law, immunities, sources, responsibility, procedural law, nuclear law, international organizations, jurisdiction
Weblink for further information: https://deicl.univie.ac.at/team/wittich-stephan/
Email: stephan.wittich(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Gesamtes Straf- und Strafprozessrecht unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von: Rechtsvergleichung, Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, Internationales und Europäisches Strafrecht, Grundprinzipien des Straf- und Strafprozessrechts, Zwangsmaßnahmen und geheime Ermittlungseingriffe im Strafprozessrecht
Weblink for further information: https://strafrecht.univie.ac.at/team/zerbes-ingeborg/
Email: ingeborg.zerbes@univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Schuld- und Erbrecht, Verbrauchervertragsrecht, Bankvertragsrecht, Europäischen und Internationalen Privatrecht, zivilrechtliche Fragen des Privatstiftungsrechts
Weblink for further information: https://zivilrecht.univie.ac.at/team/zoechling-jud-brigitta/
Email: brigitta.zoechling-jud@univie.ac.at
Doctoral School of Philological and Cultural Studies (PhilKult)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Homer, Hesiod, Early Greek Epic
Comparisons of archaic Greek poetry and Ancient Near Eastern poetry and myth (especially Sumerian and Akkadian)
Comparative Poetics, Mythology, and Religion in the Ancient World
Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry; Textual Criticism; History of the Ancient Greek Language.
Weblink for further information:
https://klassischephilologie.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/graezistik/bernardo-ballesteros-petrella/#c1107835
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Languages and speaker communities represent evolving systems. The focus of my research is on analyzing and modeling dynamics within such systems, subsuming dynamics within a language (e.g., lexical and semantic change) as well as interactions among languages (e.g., competition between languages). The aim is to learn about the cognitive, social, cultural, technological, and environmental factors driving linguistic diversity, variation, and change. The emerging field of digital linguistics naturally covers these research interests: I approach linguistic research questions with digital data and methods, and I am interested in the role that digitalization plays in the evolution of language. I supervise projects involving quantitative and computational approaches in the study of language variation and change, employing methods from disciplines such as data science, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and mathematical modeling of population dynamics.
Weblink for further information: https://digiling.univie.ac.at/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Linguistics (Theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, diaspora linguistics)
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
African Studies (African linguistics, Africa - China relations, Africa - Europe relations, Global African diaspora studies, global area studies)
Weblink for further information: https://homepag.univie.ac.at/adamsbodomo
Email: adams.bodomo(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
film and media studies, gender theory, queer cinema, Austrian cinema and media history, media narratology, feminist epistemology and theory, artistic research (studies)
Weblink for further information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1485-7705
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I welcome PhD proposals that engage critically and historically with music and musical practices across European and North American contexts, with particular interest in the English- and German-speaking regions.
AREAS:
- European and North American art music (c. 1850–2000)
- Popular music from 1945 to the present (especially UK/US)
- Music and image: film and television music, music videos, video game audio, and music in advertising
- Music and musical practices in the digital era (streaming, social media, algorithmic curation and recommendation, online communities, participatory/creator cultures, AI-assisted production, livestreamed performances)
APPROACHES:
- Historical musicology, critical musicology, music analysis
- Cultural studies, environmental humanities and ecocriticism, philosophy
- Interdisciplinary projects welcome
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES:
- Politics, society, technology (including digital technology), posthumanism, ecological crisis, aesthetics, ethics, value
Weblink for further information: https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/institut/brooks/
Email: Marc.Brooks(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
formal semantics
formal pragmatics
intonation
interfaces of syntax, semantics, pragmatics and prosody
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
meaning of temporal connectors
meaning of tenses
tenseless languages
temporal adverbs and quantifiers
aspect
elements that don't change truth conditions, e.g...
discourse particles like German "ja", "doch" etc. in any language
focus and/or contrastive topic in any language
mapping of syntax and information structure to prosody
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/daniel.buring/
Email: daniel.buring(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
-Ancient philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle
-Ancient epistemology, psychology and aesthetics
-The educational programme of the Artes Liberales
Weblink for further information: https://klassischephilologie.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/graezistik/stefan-buettner/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History of Western Music since 1600; Opera Studies; Nineteenth-Century Concert Music; Vienna as a Musical Center; Transnational Music Studies; Transnational Musical Relationships in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries; Franz Liszt and Piano Music in the 19th century; Celebrity Studies in Music; Constructions of Musical Authorship in Music; Music and Memorial Culture; Orientalism in 19th-century music; Music Historiography; Film Music; History of Musicology, Music Theory, and Music Philosophy.
Weblink for further information: https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/institut/calella/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
theatre historiography; music theatre & voice; intersectional gender studies pertaining to theatre and performance
Performance Cultures of the Siglo de Oro
Power Abuse in the Performing Arts
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/anke.charton/
Email: anke.charton(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My main research interests are music psychology and music neuroscience. I focus on these areas in human participants.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am particularly interested in supervising theses in the areas of music and memory research, relationships between music and language perception, and music in development (both in very young and older participants).
Weblink for further information: https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/institut/cui/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Research focuses: modern Central Asia (18th century – today) with an interest in human-environment relations, labour, vernacular textual records and heritage. Supervision areas: Topics related to the history, culture or anthropology of Central Asia.
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/persons/jeanine-dagyeli/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
German as a second language: language acquisition, language teaching, multilingualism, and social aspects / pedagogical approaches to the field of German as a second language
Weblink for further information: https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/inci-dirim/
Email: inci.dirim(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Over the last 25 years, I have worked on land rights issues (ranging from land reform to women's land rights to land grabbing), on popular and youth culture, and on qualitative research methods. My regional focus has been East Africa (especially Tanzania) and Southern Africa, as well as the Comorian diaspora in France.
Currently, my research interests lie at the intersection of African Studies and Mobility Studies. Specifically, I work on mobilities in the context of solidarity practices, focusing on entangled solidarities between Black and/or African actors and Palestinians, as well as on the role of international recruits travelling to South Africa to help fight apartheid (1960s-90s).
Another research focus is on contemporary German-language travel writing in relation to African contexts. Furthermore, I am in charge of the externally funded project "Rastafari Reasoning on Africa in Historical Perspective" (funded by the Austrian Science Fund, P 35987, 2022-2027), which was conceived and is carried out together with Dominik Frühwirth.
So far, I have supervised 56 master's or diploma theses and co-supervised 2 doctoral theses. Ongoing projects include 3 PhD theses and 6 MA theses in African Studies and related disciplines such as Global Studies and Development Studies.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
African Studies, Mobility Studies, contemporary African history, popular cultures, travel writing, resistance movements, solidarities, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Palestine, diasporic spaces, translocal networks,
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/birgit-englert/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
historical-comparative linguistics, digital philology, language ecology/diversity, digital humanism
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/hannes.fellner/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Amerikanistik (North American Anglophone Literatures and Cultures)
Weblink for further information: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/ganser/
Email: alexandra.ganser(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Prof. Dr. Lisa Gotto’s research bridges film theory, media history, and digital image culture. Her core interests include the theory, history and aesthetics of cinema, especially in contexts of post-cinema and media transformation. She explores how film practices evolve alongside digital media, investigating tensions between large and small image forms and the shifting visual logic of mobile and online screens. Her work also spans game studies and comparative media studies, with a focus on how digital media culture reshapes our perception, affect, and social practices.
She supervises PhD projects in film history, film aesthetics, media philosophy, the technological history of cinema, digital media culture, game studies, and research on identity, representation, and visual political discourses.
Weblink for further information: https://tfm.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personal/lisa-gotto/
Email: lisa.gotto(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
In times of increasing popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) one of my central research interests is the mitigation of bias and potential manipulation of LLMs. The manipulation relates to linguistic patterns and features as well as factual hallucinations of LLMs that potentially quietly influence human beings. To this end, I have started comparing features and facts of human communication before and after the advent of LLMs to those generated by LLMs. In addition, the analysis and mitigation of bias, e.g. gender, cultural and racial bias, in the language of LLMs have been an ongoing research interest. Furthermore, I am interested in using automated methods to detect communication used to further radicalization.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
One very interesting research topic is the automated detection of codes used in online communication to persuade people to join a radical cause or group, which is frequently done implicitly to avoid detection. Thus, any such detection method needs the ability to uncover such codified language. A second potential project relates to the comparison of linguistic features and facts in human communication to those used in LLMs and how the latter potentially influences the former. A third topic relates to methods to uncover and strengthen factual associations in hidden representations of LLMs across cultures and societies and compare the patterns learned and potential inaccuracies. Finally, the topic of security and robustness of LLMs is an interesting doctoral project. Small linguistic changes in requests, such as character perturbations, or changes of language of the request to low-resource languages hold the potential to reduce the robustness of LLMs.
Weblink for further information: https://dagmargromann.com/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research interests include: literary communication in the late Roman Republic and early Empire, ancient narrative techniques and their reception, narratological and cognitive science approaches to the interpretation of ancient narrative texts, the dynamics of genre interference (especially between epic and dramatic texts), descriptions of the afterlife in ancient literature, and Roman tragedies with a focus on Seneca tragicus.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
It would be desirable if the research project focused particularly on poetry from the late Republic or early Imperial period.
Weblink for further information: https://klassischephilologie.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/klassische-latinistik/person/user/heila17/inum/1069/backpid/145216/
Email: andreas.heil(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Japanese Studies (Cultural Studies): contemporary Japan
Research fields: literary studies - media studies (film and television) - gender studies - postcolonial studies - diversity studies - migration studies
Weblink for further information: https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/en/staff/detail-view/user/heini2/inum/1075
Email: ina.hein(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Intersections of 'Race', Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Anglophone Cultural Production (incl. literature and cultural studies); The Politics of Cultural Production: Representations of Inequalities, Power Politics, and Norms of Subjectivity in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures; Critical Studies of Whiteness; Representations of Home, Homeland and Homemaking; Irish Studies
Weblink for further information: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/detail-seite/user/heinzs85/inum/1063/backpid/30750/
Email: sarah.heinz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Literary, filmic and cultural representations of society, sociability, communality and conviviality, queer and feminist relationships, dicourses of spirituality, human-animal studies
Weblink for further information: n/a
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Theories und methods in Theatre and Performance Studies, theatre historiography, politics and esthetics of contemporary theatre, theatricality, entanglement of acting in social life and acting on stage, theatre theory, acting theory
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/stefan-hulfeld/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
As Chair of English Language Education, my main research interest lies on bilingual education. I address both tertiary and secondary implementations of English as a medium of instruction, and have recently worked intensely on conceptualising and researching disciplinary literacies / subject-specific language in these areas, with a current interest on the role played by digital, esp. LLM-based, tools in the learning and use of disciplinary literacies. (Keywords: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English Medium Instruction, disciplinary literacies)
My second research focus lies on language teacher development, specifically with regard to teacher beliefs, and means of fostering research literacy through teacher development programmes. (Keywords: teacher cognition, teacher and learner beliefs, subjective learning theories, research literacy). In addition to my university website, information on my work can also be found on https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Huettner-2
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am happy to supervise PhD students whose research proposals align with either of my research foci.
Weblink for further information: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/huettner/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Cultural and Intellectual history of Islam, History of Ideas, Islamic law
Weblink for further information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/details-staff/user/ivanyik80/inum/1073/backpid/86978/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Supervision Areas: South Slavic Cultural Studies, South Slavic Literary Studies, New Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Studies
Research Interests: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian literatures and cultures (18.-21.st centuries)
Oral Epics of the South Slavs - Heroic Tradition and its contemporary afterlives
Aesthetic strategies of dissensus, cultures of resentment in South East Europe
Literature and cultural identities, Transnational Literature in Slavic Studies, multilingualism, post-migrant cultures of gastarbajt
Yugoslav partisan literature and film, (Post-)Yugoslav film
Documentary and postdramatic theater
Post-conflict societies and (competitive) victimhood narratives
Weblink for further information: https://suedslawistik.univie.ac.at/o-nama/miranda-jakisa/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Eastern European Film and Media Studies, Gender Media Studies, Queer Theory, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Format Theory, Critical Film and Media Historiographies, Documentary Film Theory, Intersections of Postcommunist and Postcolonial Studies
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- Eastern European Media Politics: (Post-)Socialism in Film, (Social) Media, Visual Arts, Television
- Media-Configurations of the (Post-)Social
- (Queer-)Feminist Documentary (Film) Aesthetics
- (Austrian) Queer Films and/with New Cinema History
- Curatorship/Comparisons/Entanglements: Exploring Methods of Comparative Media Analysis
- Exploring Methods of Film Experience (Rezeptionsforschung)
Weblink for further information: https://tfm.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personal/nicole-kandioler/
Email: nicole.kandioler(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Slavic linguistics, quantitative linguistics
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/emmerich.kelih/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My work focuses on the social, economic, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, with particular attention to consumption and environmental history, modernisation processes, and global entanglements from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Further areas include minority histories, multilingual and multiscriptural print cultures—especially Armeno-Turkish and Karamanlidika—Ottoman manuscript cultures, and the integration of digital humanities methods such as OCR/HTR and text mining in Ottoman Studies. I supervise projects on consumption and food history, migration, tourism, translingual practices, manuscript studies, and DH-based approaches to Ottoman and Turkish sources.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Potential projects may address the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey; consumption, foodways, and material culture; migration and mobility of minority communities; multilingual communication and code-switching in late Ottoman heterographic sources; Ottoman (including Armeno-Turkish) print cultures; Ottoman manuscript cultures and knowledge transmission; as well as digital approaches to Ottoman materials, including OCR/HTR training, corpus building, and computational analysis. Further themes include urban history, global trade networks, environmental history, and the emergence of modern consumer societies in the late Ottoman and early Republican periods.
Weblink for further information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/details-staff/user/koesey43/inum/1073/backpid/86555
Email: yavuz.koese(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Modern German literature and its didactics, especially topics related to Austrian literature, politics and literature, identity and performativity, masculinity studies, as well as literature and media didactics.
Weblink for further information: https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/stefan-krammer/
Email: stefan.krammer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Slavic historical linguistics
- The development and history of Slavic writing systems
- (Old) Church Slavonic language and literature
- Slavic textual philology and manuscript traditions
- Language contact in the history of Slavic languages
- Medieval manuscript cultures (core are: Eastern and South East Europe)
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/roman-krivko/
Email: roman.krivko(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses on the cultures and religions of modern South Asia with an emphasis on contemporary Hindu practices, popular devotion, and the role of sacred sound and writing in everyday life. I work on mantra traditions, material religion, and the social life of ritual objects, as well as the circulation of religious media in urban and transnational contexts. I am especially interested in intersections of anthropology, philology, and media studies, including digital ethnography and the study of visual and material forms of devotion. I also supervise projects on South Asian migration, ritual life in diasporic settings, and foodways as a site of identity formation and cultural politics.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible themes include material and visual cultures of devotion, contemporary mantra practices, sacred objects and their use, popular Hinduism in urban settings, and the work of ritual specialists. I also welcome projects on digital and multisensory aspects of religious practice, religious media and digital devotion, South Asian migration and identity formation, ritual participation in diasporic communities, and the cultural politics of food, purity, and community. Projects combining ethnographic fieldwork with textual, digital, or visual analysis are particularly encouraged.
Weblink for further information: https://stb.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/team/borayin-larios/user/lariosb95/inum/1083/backpid/198178/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Sociolinguistics;
Language Variation (focus on syntax, lexis and phonology);
Language Change, Language History;
Perceptual Dialectology, Perceptual Variationist Linguistics;
Language Attitudes;
Digital Humanities (especially Digital Linguistics);
Language Norms; Lexicography
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am open to project ideas from applicants.
Weblink for further information: https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/alexandra-n-lenz/
Email: alexandra.lenz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Indo-European linguistics (phonology, morphology, semantics)
Comparative grammar of Tocharian
Comparative grammar of Indo-Iranian
Tocharian philology
Vedic philology
History and methods of Comparative Philology
Weblink for further information: https://linguistics.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/professorinnen/melanie-malzahn/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Popular Literature, Young Adult Literature, New Materialism, Literature of the Weimar Era
Weblink for further information: https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/dariya-manova/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
anthropology of Japan - contemporary Japanese society and culture - interversity: intersectional, interdisciplinary and interrelational approaches to social diversity - Japan and the world: migration research and diaspora studies - power and inequalities in center and periphery relations - globalization of sport and the body - health and subjective well-being - qualitative social research and empirical research methods
Weblink for further information: https://japan.univie.ac.at/en/research/research/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Religious, cultural, and intellectual history of premodern South Asia (with a focus on 500–1200 CE)
- Literature, rituals, history, and dissemination of early Śaivism and the tantric traditions
- Religious and cultural history of early medieval Nepal and the Himalayan region
- Epigraphy of South Asia
Weblink for further information: https://stb.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/team/nina-mirnig/
Email: nina.mirnig(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
West Slavic linguistics (contact linguistics, language geography, historical sociolinguistics) with a focus on Czech and Slovak; history of language contact between Slavic languages, German and Hungarian; Central Europe as a language area; Austriacisms; Czech and Slovak National Revival and the role of Vienna; language education in the Habsburg monarchy
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/stefan-michael-newerkla/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Archive-based theater historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries, anti-Semitism, exile, the Holocaust, popular theater forms, circus, marginalized and forgotten theater forms, history of theater studies, provenance research, politics of memory, prejudice and exclusion
Weblink for further information:
https://tfm.univie.ac.at/sammlungen-einrichtungen/archiv-theaterhistorische-sammlung/
https://hots.univie.ac.at/
Email: birgit.peter(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Interpreting studies with a focus on dialogue and public service interpreting; interpreter training; interpreting ethics; interpreting for vulnerable groups; interpreting in an asylum and refugee context; activist interpreting;
Weblink for further information: https://ufind.univie.ac.at/en/person.html?id=104304
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- children's and young adult literature in English
- contemporary British literature
- the teaching of literature in English
- social media and literature
- time travel fiction and film
- picturebooks and graphic novels (anglophone contexts)
- social justice issues in English literature, particularly for young readers
- British cultural studies
Weblink for further information: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/reichl
Email: susanne.reichl(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
(1) Discourse Studies, Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics:
- Functional Pragmatics
- Discourse Linguistics (Critical Discourse Analysis, Functional-Pragmatic Discourse Analysis)
- philosophical, sociological, historical and linguistic discourse theories
- language and anti-/discrimination (nationalism, racism, populism, linguistic imperialism)
- doctor-patient interaction, especially focusing on semiotic and trans- or intercultural aspects
- Politolinguistics (language & politics),
- Ecolinguistics (discourses on climate change and the climate crisis)
(2) Text linguistics: text types, genre theory, text production, academic writing
(3) Argumentation theory: persuasion research, functional theory of argumentation, formal and content-related topoi, theory of fallacies, didactics of argumentation
(4) Rhetoric: political rhetoric, tropology, rhetorical theory of genres, rhetorical relevance of lexico¬graphy
(5) Semiotics: theory of Peirce, Social Semiotics, visual communication, text semiotics
Weblink for further information: https://linguistik.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/professorinnen/martin-reisigl/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Phonaesthetics; Beauty of Language Sound; Psychotypology; Psychology of Foreign (Second) Language Learning, Individual Differences in SLA, Psycholinguistics.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Topics connected to phonaesthetic research and the role of phonaesthetic language attitudes in foreign language learning. Overlaps between the aesthetic element in language learning and music. The role of phonaesthetics in language education. Phonetic Chill.
Once considered too subjective for serious inquiry, the aesthetics of language is now re-emerging as an interdisciplinary field that draws on linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, aesthetics, literary studies and musicology.
Weblink for further information: https://linktr.ee/phonaesthetics
Email: susanne.reiterer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Topics involving AI models for tracking motions and/or emotions, genre and mood detection, and all kinds of audio signal analysis and physiological measurement are particularly welcome for research in: Analysis and synthesis of product, traffic, animal, human and musical noises/sounds, their behavioral effects/influences, and their processing in the brain; cross-modality perception; synesthesia; chill experiences; the acoustics of musical instruments (including church bells); room acoustics; and psychoacoustics (especially masking, perception of pitch, consonance and timbre), noise pollution (a joint project with the Vienna General Hospital about noise pollution for preterm babies in incubators), audio logos, as well as other topics in the area of musical acoustics, music psychology and music informatics.
Team: https://sines.univie.ac.at/team/.
Devices and infrastructure: https://sines.univie.ac.at/sines-tools/ and https://medialab.univie.ac.at/ausstattung/.
Weblink for further information: https://musikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/institut/reuter/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The Research Group Socio-Cognitive Translation Studies invites applications that centre on the actors in translation-related contexts, e.g., translators, clients or superiors in organisations, freelance networks or non-professional virtual contexts. We welcome studies on the changes that are affecting translation contexts, esp. those relating to the increasing heterogeneity of translation tasks and processes, new forms of cooperation and the rapid technological change. The goal is to study the socio-cognitive, collaborative and technological embedding of translation praxis. The applicant should aim to enrich concepts and theories from socio-cognitive translation studies with, e.g., situated and distributed approaches in sociology or cognitive science, workplace or network research. The methodological focus of the project should lie on the qualitative study of the phenomena, e.g., through ethnographic workplace studies, interview-based research or qualitative online research.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Any PhD project proposals on the above-mentioned research areas are welcome. Possible research topics include – but are not limited to – the following topics: leadership and management of translation-related companies, organisations, departments or networks; learning and translation expertise development at workplaces and other contexts of praxis; distributed agency and translatorship; translation expertise communication, conceptualisations and manifestations in different contexts; dimensions of lived translation expertise (actual workplace praxis, rationalizations of the social actors involved, normative descriptions); notions of translation inscribed in technological objects.
Weblink for further information: https://socotrans.univie.ac.at/
Email: hanna.risku(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Arabic dialectology, especially Maghrebi dialects and Bedouin-type dialects
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/veronika-ritt-benmimoun/
Email: veronika.ritt(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research connects Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities through the study of language, knowledge, and meaning in digital contexts. I supervise projects at the intersection of Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing, with a focus on explainability, interpretability, and the societal impact of large language models (LLMs). Topics include computational modeling of cultural and historical language change, responsible and transparent AI for text analysis, integration of structured knowledge and linguistic data, and evaluation of LLMs from ethical, philosophical, and linguistic perspectives. I welcome projects that bridge critical reflection and technical innovation, advancing human-centric, explainable AI in the spirit of digital humanism.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Explainability of AI systems, including linguistic and human-centered perspectives such as discourse, pragmatics, and usage context. Multi-faceted explanation approaches for complex AI agents, digital humanities environments, and other use-cases.
Small LLMs and agent systems for academia: controllable, open-source models enabling transparent and sustainable research; multilingual LLMs and those designed for under-resourced languages; cognitively and linguistically motivated architectures.
Further topics at the intersection of LLM research, computational linguistics, and digital humanities, combining critical reflection with technical innovation.
Weblink for further information: https://www.benjaminroth.net/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I supervise African Studies projects that deploy an historical perspective (19th-21st centuries). Of particular interests would be topics on urban history, the study of religion and socio-political transformation, mobility studies, radio history or an interest in photography. I would be grateful if in the application archives to be consulted would be mentioned.
It will be an advantage if the dissertation project would aim at establishing links between African Studies and global history research.
Weblink for further information: https://afrika.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/einzelansicht-personal/user/ruethek3/inum/1061/backpid/69548/
(starting at Uni Vienna on Feb 15th 2026)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Discourse Analysis, Language Ideologies, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Perspectives on Large Language Models, Language, Transnationalisation and Globalisation, Language and Digital Infrastructures, Language Contact and Creolisation, Multilingualism, Posthumanist Linguistics, Discursive and Material Constructions of Language
Weblink for further information: https://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/en/professuren-mitarbeitende/sprachgebrauch-migration/team/lehrstuhlinhaber-in/pv-lehrstuhlinhaber-in/index.html
Email: bschneider(at)europa-uni.de
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
German as a Foreign Language / GFL teaching and learning / GFL Applied Linguistics
Weblink for further information: https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/karen-schramm/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
* Multilingual education
* Literary learning in the language classroom
* Cultural studies and the language classroom
* Postmigrant perspectives on education
* Science propaedeutics in schools
* Language policies
* Racism in educational contexts
Weblink for further information: https://www.univie.ac.at/germanistik/hannes-schweiger/
Email: hannes.schweiger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Slavic literatures and cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian literatures (19th–21st centuries)
- Energy and environmental humanities: ecocriticism, extractivism, energy infrastructures, and fossil fuel cultures
- Posthuman studies: more-than-human perspectives, human-animal relations, and material entanglements
- Urban imaginaries: representations of the city, particularly in contexts of war, conflict, and uprisings
- Memory and literature: memory cultures, literature as testimony and memory practice
- (Post)migrant cultures and literatures in contemporary literature and media
- Gender studies: intersections of gender with literature, culture, and material infrastructures
- Intermediality: entanglements of literature, film, music, games, and other media
- Central Europe as concept and discourse (Mitteleuropa) in literature and culture
- Literary geography and cartography: spatial configurations, borders, centers, peripheries, and mapping practices
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- 18th–21st century Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian literatures and cultures, with possibilities for comparative approaches to other Slavic or non-Slavic contexts
- Memory and literature: memory cultures and narratives, literature as testimony and memory practice
- Urban imaginaries: representations of the city in literature, film, games, and music
- Ecocriticism and environmental humanities: more-than-human perspectives and entanglements in literary/cultural representation
- Extractivism and energy humanities: fossil fuels, energy infrastructures, and their intersections with gender in literature, film, and music
- Literature and space: borders, centers, peripheries, heterotopias, and other spatial configurations
- Central Europe as concept and discourse in literature and culture
- Migration and postmigrant perspectives in literature, film, music, and digital media
- Transnational and comparative approaches to Slavic literatures and cultures
- Aesthetics of Resistance: uprisings, strikes and upheavals in literature, film, music, and games
Weblink for further information: https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=1019032
Email: anna.seidel(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Micropolitics; Queer/Gender Studies; Class and social difference in film and media; New Materialism
Weblink for further information: https://tfm.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personal/details/user/seiera3/inum/1085/backpid/12902/
Email: andrea.seier(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Sociolinguistics, Metapragmatics, Language Ideologies, Multimodality, Discourse Analysis
Weblink for further information: https://www.spitzmueller.org
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My attention is currently focused on the following issues. First, I study how the Chinese state seeks to morally engineer society by shaping citizens’ behaviors, values, and beliefs toward greater concern for the common good and toward social conservatism. Second, I investigate how privacy and surveillance are perceived, debated, and negotiated in Chinese society. In particular, I examine how citizens understand different threats to their privacy and how the state frames surveillance in ways that deepen its penetration of society. Third, I analyze how citizens in East Asia (currently Taiwan, South Korea, and China) imagine their political community and identity. Fourth, I am interested in how the process of rapid modernization has affected political culture, values, and behaviors in Chinese-speaking societies.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am open to (co-)supervise topics investigating issues that are related to my current research foci. I can also supervise a broader range of research designs on political culture, political behavior, and contentious politics, when they are comparative and have an East Asian/Chinese angle.
Weblink for further information: http://hcsteinhardt.org/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research interests in the field of German studies are, in particular:
Austrian literature from the 19th century to the present day, Cold War literature, modern literature in political and media contexts, exile literature, reading research and modern reading culture, digital social reading.
Weblink for further information: https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/guenther-stocker/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I have three main areas of interest: Yiddish linguistics, syntax of focus and the syntax-phonology interface, language acquisition and I offer to supervise theses in all three.
Since 2018, I have been working on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish. In an AHRC-funded (UK) research project, we carried out field work, resulting in over 100 hours of recordings with speakers of CHY from all over the world. Our research targeted theoretical linguistic analysis of CHY as well as its sociolinguistic context.
I have worked on the syntax of focus movement since my doctoral thesis in 2001. I have developed the idea that syntactic movement can be motivated by prosodic well-formedness requirements, so-called stress-driven movement, for instance in Hungarian.
Related to this, but also independently, I have a long-standing interest in working on the syntax-prosody interface. Specifically, on how the syntactic clause maps onto the intonational phrase in prosodic structure.
In addition, I am also interested in scopal ambiguities and its acquisition and in the acquisition of prosodic focus, and language acquisition more generally.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I offer the following topics:
(i) Yiddish linguistics- (ia) theoretical linguistics, morphosyntax and language change; (ib) Yiddish language development. If you are interested, read Belk, Zoë, Lily Kahn & Szendrői, K.E. 2020a. Complete loss of case and gender within two generations: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish. J. of Comp. Ger. Ling 23: 271–326, and contact me for more details.
(ii) Syntax-prosody interface. If you are interested, read Hamlaoui, Fatima & Szendrői, K.E. 2015. A flexible approach to the syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases. Phonology 35 (1): 79-110, and contact me for more details.
(iii) Early syntax development, together with Judit Gervain. If interested, read Gervain, J. & J. Werker. 2013. “Tuned to Grammar: Prosody Cues Word Order in Bilingual Infants.” Nature Comms, 4:1490, and contact me for more details.
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/kriszta.eszter.szendroei/
Email: kriszta.szendroi(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
African Comparative Literatures (Swahiliphone, Francophone, Anglophone, India Oceanic, Maghrebian); African-Diasporic Literatures; African Literatures and Cultures and Reconfiguring African Studies; Critical African(a) Studies; African Literatures and Intercultural Dialogues; African Literatures in public spaces
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/r%C3%A9mi-armand-tchokothe/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
screenwriting studies, film music, silent cinema, film history, narration
Weblink for further information: https://tieber.wordpress.com
Email: claus.tieber(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My supervision focuses broadly on the relationship between language and power, with a particular emphasis on educational contexts. I am interested in how linguistic practices produce and reproduce inequalities, and in how (educational) systems can strengthen equity and equal opportunities. Relevant fields include (educational) language policy—both language as a subject and language of instruction—teacher education, heteroglossic language practices, processes of minoritization as well as revitalization and reclamation, and political or public discourses of inclusion and exclusion. I also welcome projects concerned with linking formal and informal language learning. The overarching question—“What roles does language play in the pluralistic society of the 21st century?” (strategic priority culture, education, democracy) lies at the core of the supervision I offer. Key concerns include strengthening linguistic diversity, securing language rights, and promoting social justice and sustainability.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Research themes may focus on minoritization in its various forms. I especially welcome projects that connect the strategic priority culture, education, democracy with the priority climate, environment, sustainability, and that extend or draw on insights generated through the Horizon Project RISE UP (ending in January 2026). I supervise doctoral research on language reclamation and revitalization, particularly when using ethnographic and participatory approaches. Projects may address minoritization in any global context, though those that engage with one of the RISE UP partner communities or with Breton-speaking communities are especially encouraged.
Weblink for further information: sllf.univie.ac.at; riseupproject.eu
Email: eva.vetter(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Digital Scholarly editions; digital text analysis; especially applied to medieval or born digital texts; intertextuality and text reuse detection; digital methods for historical semantics; electronic literature
Weblink for further information: https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=1011291
Email: gabriel.viehhauser(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Aesthetics, theory, and politics of the media
Capitalism and class society
Authenticity
Climate catastrophe
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
If you're interested in media and cultural studies, especially poststructuralist approaches, representation or discourse analysis, I'd love to hear from you.
Weblink for further information: http://www.thomaswaitz.at/
Email: t.waitz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Graeco-Arabic translation movement, Philosophy and Medicine in the Classical Arabic Period, Arabic Manuscript Studies
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/elvira-wakelnig/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Iberoromance Linguistics
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/albert.wall/
Email: albert.wall(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Anglophone Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Popular Culture, Disability Studies, Russian American Relations
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Disability in Anglophone Media, Video Games and Disability, Antiliberalism and American Literature and Culture, American Popular Culture
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/maria-katharina-wiedlack/
Email: katharina.wiedlack(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Deutschsprachige Minderheiten in Lateinamerika; Jugendsprachen in Wien;
Weblink for further information: https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/patrick-wolf-farre/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Comparative Literature, German, Polish Literatures, Jewish Literatures, Intermedia
Weblink for further information: https://complit.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/personal-detailansicht/user/paulaw79/inum/1065/backpid/110804/
Email: paula.wojcik(at)univie.ac.at
Vienna Doctoral School in Cognition, Behavior, and Neuroscience (CoBeNe)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
We are an interdisciplinary research group based at the Faculty of Psychology and the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS). We study the microbiome-brain axis in relation to neural plasticity, learning, and memory by integrating neuroimaging, gut microbial profiling, and behavioural assessments. Our work spans healthy humans, individuals with reduced plasticity (e.g., stress, genetic risk for dementia, perturbed neurodevelopment), and animal models. We showed that gut microbial networks relate to brain network dynamics and that their metabolic capacities shape stress hormone regulation. Ongoing projects include the world’s largest cohort of young APOE4 carriers to study effects of early dementia risk on microbiome and cognition. Supported by an ERC Starting Grant, we now focus on the microbial effects on (human) hippocampal plasticity, and on the impact of microbial neurotransmitter production (e.g., GABA) on (mouse) hippocampal circuits and behaviourh
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
The candidate should support our research on microbiome-brain interactions for (human) neural plasticity, learning, and memory. Candidates should have a strong interest in neuroscience, microbial networks and their metabolic outputs. Research themes may include pre/probiotic/dietary interventions in individuals with reduced neural plasticity (genetic risk for dementia, older adults, different clinical populations), or studies on microbial metabolite/neurotransmitter production and hippocampus-related (neuro)cognition. We are also very interested in studying the temporal dynamics of microbial networks and their effects on the host. Projects do not need to involve neuroimaging (fMRI) but may also be purely behavioural, using paradigms related to hippocampal plasticity. The position also offers a certain degree of flexibility to pursue independent research ideas that may arise from the above topics, and that are connected to the group’s research interests and expertise.
Weblink for further information: https://www.isabellawagner.com
Email: isabella.wagner(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Interests and supervision areas cover (but are not restricted to):
(1) Human perception, in particular seeing, but also hearing and feeling. What role do expectancies play in perception? Why do perceptual illusions occur? How do humans perceive consciously?
(2) Human attention - the selection of information for various purposes (e.g. during driving or reading).
(3) Experimental psychology, allowing to identify the most powerful critical side conditions for human performance.
(4) The limits of human intentional control: When are humans susceptible to information and messages they do not want to process? What are the necessary side conditions for the succesful suppression of the processing of unwanted input?
(5) Human emotional processing: How can emotions be measured? How are they elicited? How can humans strategically control their emotions?
(6) Human memory, in particular priming - a form of implicit or nondeclarative memory -, working memory, and skill memory.
(7) Human ergonomics and sensorimotor coordination, with a focus on compatibility - that is, the "fit" between sensory input and required output, including Human-Machine- and Human-Computer-Interactions/Interfaces (HMI and HCI).
(8) Human consciousness: What is it? How can it be measured? What is the division of labor between conscious and nonconscious processing?
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Currently, we focus on the following areas, but the list can be easily accomodated by other topics:
(1) visual perception in novel laser-beam micro-mechanical electrical displays (together with industry INFINEON and TU Vienna), where we study the inclusiveness of the technology (e.g. is it suited for the elderly?) as well as its perceptual underpinnings;
(2) suppression of unwanted input in visual perception (e.g. how is suppression achieved? How does suppression relate to intentional search for relevant information? Can one and the same feature actively searched-for and suppressed, depending on the context? How quick are humans to switch between search and suppression? What features or objects can be suppressed? Can features be suppressed at particular times only?);
(3) novel haptic technology: what can we achieve with it? Currently, we use a mouse- or scroll-wheel that can be programmed to show various resistance profiles and test if it allows novel applications in human-computer interactions (together with industry STIWA);
(4) attention to insects: are insects threatening to humans because they correspond to a threat? Does this influence attention, e.g. attract attention or lead to avoidance? How do humans attend to different insects, e.g. beneficial insects vs. pests? Does human knowledge about insects make a difference? The questions are important as insects do not get the financial support and protection as is necessary given their role for ecological systems.
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/ulrich.ansorge/
Email: ulrich.ansorge(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Evolution of language, evolution of music. Speech rhythm. Music cognition.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
EEG analysis of two people performing musical duets (singing, keyboards, drums, etc). EEG analysis of speech rhythm and musical rhythm. Corpus analysis of a large corpus of English folk songs. Effects of rhyme on memory.
Weblink for further information: https://becogbio.univie.ac.at/people/scientific-staff/tecumseh-fitch/
Email: tecumseh.fitch(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Our research group applies theories from the fields of social psychology and social cognition to study consumer behavior. We link basic and applied research and investigate how consumers process information, form judgments, and make decisions in applied fields. For instance, we study consumer behavior in the context of digital transformation, sustainability demands, and economic change. We are interested in how social psychological principles can help to understand problems in real life and how they contribute to a better life and positive social interactions. Specific areas of interest include examining the origins of dietary beliefs, such as the "unhealthy=tasty" intuition, and investigating why such beliefs persist despite contradictory experiences. We also study how beliefs about how others behave in social interactions motivate individuals to contribute to collective goals and examine the positive development of individuals within digital contexts.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
We are open for a wide range of topics related to theories of social cognition and social psychology. Specific topics for supervision include studying the development of social beliefs (e.g., the development of zero-sum beliefs in social interactions), investigating how the assumption that the own perceptions are objective influences evaluations of others in digital contexts (e.g., disregarding how others form judgments), and examining how prioritizing immediate self-interest versus positive outcomes for a social system influences consumer behavior (e.g., deciding to reduce consumption).
Weblink for further information: https://soko-psy.univie.ac.at/team/arnd-florack/
Email: arnd.florack(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
We examine how structural and functional properties of neural auditory and language systems constrain speech perception, language learning, multilingualism and reading. We link detailed morphology of Heschl’s gyrus and temporal sampling of speech to individual differences in aptitude, dyslexia and multilingualism. Using structural and functional MRI, EEG/MEG, computational modelling and behavioural assays, we map how nature and nurture shape linguistic abilities. Our automated phenotyping tools and open datasets enable reproducible characterisation of auditory cortex structure and its relationship to cognition, and emerging imaging–genetics findings. We aim to identify mechanistic markers that bridge behavioural profiles, neural dynamics and developmental or clinical outcomes. Ongoing/future directions include lifespan and developmental approaches to probe multilingualism-induced cognitive and neural reserve, and multimodal studies of multilingual dyslexia.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Projects may examine how linguistic environments, educational practices and sociocultural factors influence language learning trajectories; how multilingual experience shapes cognitive and neural organization; or how literacy and biliteracy reshape linguistic knowledge across communities. Other themes include cross-linguistic variation in orthography, phonology, syntax and semantics as a window into neurocognitive constraints; humanities-oriented analyses of linguistic diversity (e.g. typological distance measures) paired with neurobiological markers; and interdisciplinary work on communication, identity and language disorders.
Weblink for further information: https://brainandlanguagelab.org/
Email: narly.golestani(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Language change and language acquisition, acquisition of morphosyntactic complexity, cognitive basis of language change and reanalysis of morphosyntactic structure, processing and production of complex word forms and of argument/event structure alternations, structure of the mental lexicon, testing theories of language change (especially generative/mentalist approaches) with L1 acquisition data.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Directionality and language change from an L1 acquisition perspective; L1 acquisition and change in the selectional properties of derivational morphology; L1 vs. L2 processing of complex word forms: implications for morphological change/language change; directionality in syntactic vs. morphological change and L1 acquisition
Weblink for further information: https://lauragrestenberger.com/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research lies at the intersection of developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience and focuses on social and cognitive development in early childhood. Using a combination of behavioral and physiological methods in infants and children, my team and I investigate the mechanisms underlying naturalistic social learning interactions. In our research with caregiver-child dyads, we discovered that interpersonal synchronization of brain activities emerges spontaneously and remarkably early in caregiver-child interactions and is linked to relationship quality. Current projects focus on the role of interpersonal neural synchrony for children’s social well-being and language development.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Potential topics for doctoral projects include (but are not limited to):
- Early cognitive and brain processes of language learning and their links to later outcomes
- Predictors of child well-being during social and cultural transitions
- Cross-cultural differences and developmental trajectories of perception and attention (e.g., in art or music perception)
Weblink for further information: https://www.kinderstudien.at/en/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The Health Psychology Group works at the interface of psychology, public health and science communication, aiming to promote healthy lifestyles at the population level. We combine assessments of psychological determinants and outcomes with digital trace data and health behaviours tracked in real life (e.g., via Ecological Momentary Assessment and wearable sensors). In several new projects starting in spring 2026, we will investigate the influence of factual and misleading health information generated and obtained in online environments to understand how (mis-)information exposure shapes trust in science and institutions, attitudes, and health behaviours. Ultimately, we aim to derive intervention and policy recommendations. Our work is embedded in a strong interdisciplinary and international network, spanning disciplines such as communication science, science and technology studies and law, and several European countries and the United States.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
We are looking for a predoctoral researcher to conduct research in one of the following areas: (1) online food information environments, including misinformation and harmful marketing practices on social media; (2) trust in and preferences regarding AI-generated health advice; (3) factors contributing to trust in science and scientific health information, potentially with a specific focus on underserved populations.
Weblink for further information: https://gesundheit-psy.univie.ac.at/
Email: laura.koenig(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My main research focus is
(a) to identify malleable characteristics in educational settings, i.e., concrete teacher behaviors, teacher attributes, and classroom climate, as these contribute to beneficial development of motivational, cognitive, and socio-emotional student outcomes with a special focus on diversity (gender, ability, achievement, migration background).
(b) I exploit and advance cutting-edge statistical methodologies to address important substantive questions, and
(c) typically use multiple methods (questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, portfolios), multiple informants (students, teachers, parents), and different research designs.
(d) Additionally, I aim to focus on the development and evaluation of training and intervention programs in different educational contexts (gender equality, traffic safety, students in the transition to University, “Induktionsphase” in teacher education).
(e) Another line of research focuses on identity development in adolescence.
Weblink for further information: https://lehrerinnenbildung.univie.ac.at/arbeitsbereiche/entwicklungspsychologie-und-bildungspsychologie-des-schulalters/
Email: marko.lueftenegger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The research of the Psycholinguistics Group at the Department of Linguistics revolves around the cognitive and neural basis of language processing and learning and their interface with domain general cognition. We have a specific interest in language and cognitive development and combine behavioral methods with neurophysiological measures (EEG, fNIRS), computational models and conceptual work. This includes collaborations across many disciplines beyond psycho- and neurolinguistics and includes developmental psychology, cognitive biology, philosophy and computer science.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Potential research topics that would fit particularly well in the current research foci of the group are
i) neurocognitive development of mentalization skills in early infancy
ii) projects targeted at the role of linguistic representations and processes for ontogenetic and phylogenetic development of higher cognitive functions
iii) phenomenology and function of inner sign in deaf people who are proficient in sign language(s) (here, potential applicants need to be proficient in at least one sign language)
iv) cognitive and neural processes underlying processing, identification and sharing of disinformation and bullshit
v) projects that combine theoretical or historical linguistic questions and tools from psycho- and neurolinguistics
Projects that combine questions and methods across different disciplines and involve co-supervision are encouraged.
Weblink for further information: https://www.babelfisch.at/
Email: jutta.mueller(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
In my research, I am trying to understand the potentially benefical effects of aesthetic experiences, in particular of music (both actively playing, but also merely listening to music). I combine both quantitative and qualitative methods and assessments, contextualized in various research settings ranging from ecologically valid approaches (e.g., orchestra, opera, but also everyday life of listeners) to more controlled environments (e.g., laboratory settings). To this end, I am directing the Vienna Music & Health Lab (https://www.musicandhealthlab.com/), and I am open to supervising innovative research in the area of music and health.
Weblink for further information: https://www.musicandhealthlab.com/
Email: urs.nater(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Research and supervision focus on the psychology of ageing, with particular emphasis on social relationships, motivation and emotion in later life. Older adults are viewed as active agents of their own development and well-being, shaping their lives through goals, choices and social engagement. Further interests include the role of the natural environment in social, motivational and emotional functioning in older age, and life transitions in older adulthood, with a primary focus on menopause.
Weblink for further information: https://altern-psy.univie.ac.at/en/
Email: jana.nikitin(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Environmental Psychology, behavioural insights, risk perception, risk and uncertainty communication, drivers of individual and collective behaviour, policy support, social processes of change, science-policy interface, motivation and emotion related to environmental risks, quantitative methods, experimental designs
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
the above in the context of environmental pollutants such as microplastics, harmful chemicals, or in relation to climate change, biodiversity threats
Weblink for further information: https://env-psy.univie.ac.at/
Email: sabine.pahl(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Head of ARTIS Lab (https://www.artislab.org/): Empirical Aesthetics and Psychology of Art. Cognitive and Neuroaesthetics. Arts and Health, Wellbeing, Societal Challenges. interpersonal neuroscience, hyperscanning, fNIRS. Artistic creativity and the brain.
Weblink for further information: https://www.artislab.org/
Email: matthew.pelowski(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Cognitive research in art history
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Using eye tracking to solve art historical issues
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/staff/professors/rosenberg-raphael/
Email: raphael.rosenberg(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The primary research interest is to understand from a neuroscientific point of view the mechanisms (neurochemical and neurophysiological) behind processes at the heart of what has been termed “social intelligence”, such as empathy and prosocial behaviors, in the clinical and non-clinical population. This goal is achieved by using multi-level approach that combines different methodologies: functional neuroimaging, TMS, EMG and pharmacological manipulations.
Supervision areas involve:
• Basic research: understanding the fundamental mechanisms behind social cognition, social emotions and their link to social behaviors.
• Clinical research: understanding differences in social competences and processing of other people’s mental and emotional states observed in conditions such as autism and alexithymia.
• Developmental research: understanding the development of social emotions, social intelligence and prosociality across the life span.
• Translational research: bridging different theoretical and methodological approaches from animal and human models of cognition.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- The neural circuitry of social homeostasis in humans (from social isolation to social overload)
- The neuropharmacology of reward processing
- The neurodivergent brain: myths and challenges
- The role of cognitive and neural diversity in collective behavior
- Diversity in the school context: training double empathy
Weblink for further information: https://klinische-gesundheit-psy.univie.ac.at/forschung/arbeitsbereiche-und-arbeitsgruppen/clinical-social-neuroscience-unit/
Email: giorgia.silani(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Full Professor of Psychological Research Methods – Research Synthesis (Dept. of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology).
Research focus: methods of research/evidence synthesis (meta-analyses, systematic reviews, mapping and scoping reviews, etc.), pursuing both method development (statistical tests, data visualization for meta-analysis) and applications of meta-analysis (across various themes/fields in the social sciences), and related topics (open science/scholarship, replication studies, metascience [“research about research and researchers”].
Longstanding interdisciplinary interests: research collaborations, joint publications with researchers outside psychology in the social sciences and humanities (communication science, literary studies, political science, sociology).
Additional humanities degrees: Mag. phil. (MA) in German studies (minor: communication science), Dr. phil. (PhD) in German studies. Various publications in comparative literary studies.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Applications of research/evidence synthesis methods (meta-analysis, etc.) in the social sciences and humanities.
Open science, open scholarship, and metascience studies in the social sciences and humanities.
Quantitative approaches in the humanities (e.g., quantitative text analysis in literary studies and literary translation studies, text mining).
Interdisciplinarily minded topics with joint PhD supervision – amalgamating perspectives, approaches, research questions, and methods from psychology with other social science disciplines and/or the humanities – are particularly welcome.
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/martin.voracek/
Email: martin.voracek(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am broadly interested in how the environment affects health and well-being, especially how urban nature can build and maintain health-related resilience processes.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Environment and Health; Ecological public health; Nature and well-being; Nature-based therapies; Biopsychosocial Resilience; Green spaces; Blue spaces
Weblink for further information: https://env-psy.univie.ac.at/about-us/mat-white/
Email: mathew.white(at)univie.ac.at
Vienna Doctoral School in Education (DSE)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Mathematics education research: Procedural flexibility in secondary mathematics and teacher education
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Development of measurement instruments for procedural flexibility in mathematics
Relations between procedural flexibility and relevant variables (such as creativity, executive functions, beliefs, structure sense, etc.)
Relations between procedural flexibility in different mathematical content areas
Visibility and mechanisms of procedural flexibility when working on procedural tasks
Development of procedural flexibility with digital tools (e.g., also with AI support)
Influence of curricula and education systems on procedural flexibility (cultural contexts)
Strategy acquisition and development; change in procedural flexibility over long-term periods
Weblink for further information: https://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~ableitinger/
Email: christoph.ableitinger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The research group on subject-didactics in home economics and nutrition deals with questions of teaching and learning in the areas of nutrition, health, home economics and sustainable consumption. The focus of interest is on theory formation in subject-didactics, in the practice of teaching and learning, and in teacher professionalization in this field.
Research areas:
Theory development in the subject-didactics of home economics and nutrition; qualitative classroom research in nutrition, health and consumer education; subject-didactic research with a focus on the promotion of judgement competence
Research designs:
hermeneutic, qualitative-empirical, qualitative classroom research on subject-related teaching-learning processes (audiography, videography), various techniques of qualitative content analysis, ethnographic research methods (e.g. thick description)
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- Promotion of judgment competence in nutrition, health and consumer education on secondary 2 level
- Design and evaluation of action-based teaching and learning settings for pupils in our newly established teaching and learning lab Future Lab Life Skills 'Nutrition and Sustainability'
Weblink for further information:
https://nutrition.univie.ac.at/forschung/fachdidaktik-haushaltsoekonomie-und-ernaehrung-assoz-prof-dr-paed-habil-claudia-maria-angele/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research interests and supervision areas span three interrelated areas within inclusive education. First, I am interested in inclusive digital education, focusing on how technologies, assistive systems, and digital education can enhance or constrain participation of learners with disabilities. Second, my work engages with intersectionality in inclusive education, examining how gender, dis/ability, and social class intersect to shape educational experiences, access, and marginalisation. Third, I a, interested in policy and curriculum studies, analysing how governance structures, policy discourses, and curricular frameworks enable or limit the realisation of inclusive schooling. Across these strands, my research interrogates structural inequalities and explores pathways toward more equitable educational systems.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
• Examining how AI can support differentiated and individualised learning of students with intellectual disabilities
• Empowering teachers for implementing accessible learning designs grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
• Maker education for all: empowering all students to acquire maker skills
• Mapping assistive technology ecosystems across school forms to identify structural gaps in provision, training, and resources
• Exploring how intersectional identities shape learners’ experiences of safety, visibility, and exclusion in hybrid learning spaces.
• Evaluating the policy coherence between digitalisation strategies and inclusion mandates across governance levels.
• Intersectionality in inclusive classrooms: students’ subjectivities and teachers’ practices
• Analysing curricula across European states regarding discourses of inclusive education
• Inclusive Education under pressure: a critical discourse analysis of debates around inclusive education in European countries
Weblink for further information: https://pro.ph-ooe.at/tobias-buchner
Email:
tobias.buchner(at)univie.ac.at
(tobias.buchner(at)ph-ooe.at)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Research interests
Inclusive education with a special focus on transition processes in the life course, educational processes, professional participation, intersectionality (especially disability, gender), relationships in educational contexts, systemic counselling and psychotherapy, families and larger systems, systemic support
Methodologies and methods
Qualitative empirical methodologies/methods (grounded theory methodology, situation analysis, discourse analysis), participatory research methods
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
The importance of the therapeutic relationship in systemic therapy in connection with social inequalities between clients and systemic therapists.
As part of two doctoral dissertations, the question will be examined as to what role the therapeutic relationship plays in systemic psychotherapy. In addition, potential influencing factors of this specific relational construct will be investigated by focusing on the connection between the therapeutic relationship and social differences (e.g., regarding background, education, gender, age, socioeconomic status). How do social differences or similarities between clients and therapists affect the therapeutic relationship? To what extent are therapeutic processes influenced by these factors? How aware are therapists of the impact of social differences, and how does this awareness shape the further course of therapy? How can differences and similarities be used meaningfully in therapy?
The two dissertation projects will address these fundamental questions of therapeutic practice in systemic psychotherapy.
Weblink for further information: https://bildungswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/inklusive-paedagogik/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/fasching-helga/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Physics Education Research, esp. Design Based Research and Educational Reconstruction; Conceptual Change; Professional Knowledge of Physics Teachers
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- Learning of electromagnetic radiation
- Context-Based Physics Education in high schools
- VR as tool for Teacher Education
Weblink for further information: https://aeccp.univie.ac.at/
Email: martin.hopf(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
As Chair of English Language Education, my main research interest lies on bilingual education. I address both tertiary and secondary implementations of English as a medium of instruction, and have recently worked intensely on conceptualising and researching disciplinary literacies / subject-specific language in these areas, with a current interest on the role played by digital, esp. LLM-based, tools in the learning and use of disciplinary literacies. (Keywords: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English Medium Instruction, disciplinary literacies)
My second research focus lies on language teacher development, specifically with regard to teacher beliefs, and means of fostering research literacy through teacher development programmes. (Keywords: teacher cognition, teacher and learner beliefs, subjective learning theories, research literacy). In addition to my university website, information on my work can also be found on https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Huettner-2
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am happy to supervise PhD students whose research proposals align with either of my research foci.
Weblink for further information: https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/staff/huettner/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses on the empirical investigation of teaching and learning processes at the intersection of teacher education and school practice in secondary education. Specifically, I am interested in the heterogeneity of teachers. I especially focus on student teachers working in schools, their professional development, and the conditions that foster effective transitions between university and classroom contexts. Further areas of interest include grading practices and assessment of students’ abilities, as well as teachers’ evidence-based approaches to instructional improvement. I investigate how diagnostic information and performance data (e.g., from standardized assessments, iKMPLUS) can be used by teachers to inform pedagogical decisions and promote equitable learning opportunities for all students.
I supervise theses that apply quantitative or mixed-method approaches to topics related to teacher education, classroom assessment, and data-informed teaching.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Potential themes:
- (a) Professional development & heterogeneity of (student) teachers (e.g., Professional competences among student teachers working in schools, Teacher characteristics, diversity & their relation to teaching practices and student outcomes),
- (b) Grading practices (e.g., Fairness & validity of grading practices across subjects & school types, Differences between teachers’ grading & standardized assessment),
- (c) Evidence-based instructional improvement (e.g., Teachers use of diagnostic information (e.g., standardized assessments, iKMPLUS), Data-informed decision processes in teachers’ classroom practice, Interventions supporting teachers’ evidence-based instructional development),
- (d) Educational equity & teaching practices (e.g., Classroom-level mechanisms contributing to equitable learning opportunities, Interaction between teacher characteristics, assessment practices & student heterogeneity, Effects of data-informed teaching on reducing educational inequalities).
Weblink for further information: https://lehrerinnenbildung.univie.ac.at/en/fields-of-work/educational-sciences/team/kampa-nele/
Email: nele.kampa(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Fares Kayali is a full professor of digital education and learning at the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna. He is the founder of the Computational Empowerment Lab, co-founder of the Positive Impact Games Lab, and principal investigator of several interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of design, people, and technology. His research spans informatics, teacher education, arts, and human-computer interaction (HCI). He is particularly interested in the societal impacts of digitalization and artificial intelligence, computational empowerment, technology-supported teaching and learning, participatory design, and HCI in educational contexts. Additionally, his expertise extends to game-based learning and gamification, where he explores innovative approaches to education and health care through playful methods.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible research themes include, but are not limited to:
- Computational Empowerment in Teacher Education
- Equitable AI Practices in Education
- Game-based Learning and Learning Motivation in the Classroom
- Augmented Reality and Playful Learning in Out-of-School Contexts
- Digital Health Education
Weblink for further information: https://lehrerinnenbildung.univie.ac.at/arbeitsbereiche/digitalisierung-im-bildungsbereich/
Email: fares.kayali(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Chemistry education:
- Inquiry-based teaching and learning
- Green and sustainable chemistry
- Language and chemistry learning
- Argumentation and chemistry learning
- Systems thinking and chemistry learning
- Learner concepts
- Competence orientation
- Gender aspects
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Promoting scientific argumentation skills among secondary students in the context of socio-scientific issues
Weblink for further information: https://aeccc.univie.ac.at/
Email: anja.lembens(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My main research focus is
(a) to identify malleable characteristics in educational settings, i.e., concrete teacher behaviors, teacher attributes, and classroom climate, as these contribute to beneficial development of motivational, cognitive, and socio-emotional student outcomes with a special focus on diversity (gender, ability, achievement, migration background).
(b) I exploit and advance cutting-edge statistical methodologies to address important substantive questions, and
(c) typically use multiple methods (questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, portfolios), multiple informants (students, teachers, parents), and different research designs.
(d) Additionally, I aim to focus on the development and evaluation of training and intervention programs in different educational contexts (gender equality, traffic safety, students in the transition to University, “Induktionsphase” in teacher education).
(e) Another line of research focuses on identity development in adolescence.
Weblink for further information: https://lehrerinnenbildung.univie.ac.at/arbeitsbereiche/entwicklungspsychologie-und-bildungspsychologie-des-schulalters/
Email: marko.lueftenegger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research explores the potential and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, with the goal of understanding how AI can support and individualize learning. A central focus of my work is on understanding when and why AI-supported feedback enhances learning, and how technology should be designed to support motivation and skill development. To do this, I combine experimental quantitative approaches with learning analytics. I am open to supervising projects on AI-supported feedback, individual differences (e.g., personality) in the school context, emotion/motivation and self-regulation in digital learning environments, technology-enhanced learning, and the psychological mechanisms of learning with AI, as well as related topics.
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/persons/jennifer-meyer/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Research in comparative and international education with primarily qualitative methodologies from the social sciences, including topics and approaches such as: international comparisons across formal and informal institutions of learning and across systems of educational governance; diffusion and adoption of educational concepts, ideologies, reforms, models, technologies, curricula, and practices across societies; education, aid, and international development. Both contemporary and historical approaches are welcome. No supervision of topics related to didactics or language teaching.
Weblink for further information: https://bildungswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/comparative-and-international-education/staff/head-of-the-unit/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Educational theory and research
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Education in the Enlightenment, Education in the Anthropocene; Video recordings of lessons
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/henning.schluss/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Methodology in educational and social sciences, especially the combination and integration of methods (mixed methods research)
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Doctoral projects in educational and social sciences with a methodological focus on mixed methods research design or the foundations of mixed methods research.
Weblink for further information: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ikn7n0MAAAAJ
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses on empirical educational science with an emphasis on school and instructional development, inclusion, and educational equity across the educational lifespan. I use multi-perspective and interdisciplinary approaches to analyse school processes, teaching practices, and the impact of educational policies. Key areas include academic language development, school well-being, social participation, and support for diverse learners. I also explore emerging questions on the potential of AI for teaching, learning, and school development. I supervise projects that aim to strengthen participation, equity, and overall school quality.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible doctoral topics include the effectiveness and further development of language support models and preparatory language classes from early childhood to the end of schooling, inclusive school development and multiprofessional collaboration, school suspensions and their social implications, innovative approaches to academic language support across subjects, and inclusion in the field of special education. Further themes include teacher professionalisation, inequality dynamics in schools, and evidence-based strategies to improve educational opportunities.
Weblink for further information: https://lehrerinnenbildung.univie.ac.at/arbeitsbereiche/bildungswissenschaften/team/schwab-susanne/
Email: susanne.schwab(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Media Education, considerably Critical Media Literacy
Weblink for further information: https://bildungswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/medienpaedagogik/
Email: christian.swertz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Intersectional analysis of education and inequality; educational pathways; VET; school drop out; Bourdieu; gender and education; participatory research in education
Weblink for further information: https://bildungswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/bildung-und-ungleichheit/personal/veronika-woehrer/
Vienna Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies (DSHCS)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am a cultural anthropologist and historian of everday life from the perspective of European Ethnology (originating in folklore studies and critically engaging with this tradition). My main research interests lie in material culture studies, affect and emotions, bodies, senses, experiences, and gender – with a particular focus on the fields of sport, technology and more broadly everyday life.
I am more than happy to supervise doctoral theses from other connected fields as well, provided we share a common understanding of the specific perspective (culture theory and methodology) on everyday life (such as e. g. emotions as practices, technology as cultural…). If you think about applying, please do get in touch!
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- (post-)colonial history of the planetarium
- historical and/or ethnographic studies of emotions, affects and gender in sports in relation to material or textile culture
- historical and contemporary practices of fancy dress
- studies of touch as an emotional-material practice (e.g. in museums, sports fields, technological surfaces ...)
- anthropology of outer space and emotions
- ...
Weblink for further information: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/reseachers/helen-ahner/
Email: helen.ahner(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Digital Humanities applied to the study of medieval history (c. 500–1400 CE). Special emphasis on the history of the Christian Near East (the Caucasus, Byzantium, Syria, etc.) but topics on other geographical areas are also accepted.
Weblink for further information: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/academic-staff/tara-l-andrews/
Email: tara.andrews(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
East European and Eurasian Studies: Relations between the Habsburgs and Eastern Europe in the early modern period; research on the Galician-Polish border region; cultural history of Poland; social history of Poland (and Lithuania) with a special focus on Jews; images and stereotypes of Eastern Europe (belief in vampires and vampirism); history of historiography (concepts of Eastern Central Europe).
Weblink for further information: https://iog.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personal/professorinnen/augustynowicz-christoph/
Email: christoph.augustynowicz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
19th and 20th-centuries European history, transnational history, cultural history, history of political mobilization and repression, history of humanitarianism.
Additional doctoral position linked to the Department of History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
Within the framework of this pooled call, I also offer a specific doctoral position situated at the Department of History.
This additional position should be based on a dissertation project examining transnational history during the Age of Revolutions and/or the Long Nineteenth Century (c. 1770s–1914), with a particular focus on political and/or cultural dynamics. Projects that explore themes of political repression or forms of transnational political mobilisation would be especially welcome.
Alongside this position, I remain open to supervising varied dissertation projects across the fields described above.
Weblink for further information: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/elena-bacchin/
Email: elena.bacchin(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Central European History of the 19th and early 20th entries; History of crime and policing; History of criminology; History of Public Administration and State Building; History of the League of Nations
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
History of monarchical rule; History of violence
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/peter-becker/
Email: peter.becker(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Palaeolithic zooarchaeology, human-animal interactions, taphonomy, organic technology, personal ornamentation, shell beads, dietary practices, aquatic resource exploitation, archaeozoology, Palaeolithic archaeology, human origins, eastern African faunas, human-environment interaction, landscape archaeology, behavioural adaptation to climate change.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- Human-animal interactions at Grub-Kranawetberg (Austria): through zooarchaeological and biochemical approaches.
- Raw material sourcing and provisioning strategies of pigments, stones and lithics at Grub-Kranawetberg (Austria).
- Neanderthals in a cave: zooarchaeological analyses of the Late Pleistocene faunas of Shanidar Cave (Iraqi Kurdistan).
Weblink for further information: https://technobeads.wordpress.com
Email: dorothea.maria.bosch(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I supervise dissertation projects that explore questions related to the Jewish literary and cultural history of the rabbinic period (70–1040 CE). | Ich betreue Dissertationsprojekte, die Fragestellungen zur jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte der rabbinischen Periode untersuchen (70–1040 n. Z.).
Weblink for further information: https://judaistik.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/institutsmitarbeiterinnen/constanza-cordoni/
Email: constanza.cordoni(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The focus of work of our research group are mnemonic practices in public spaces of identity discourses (MELPAUMENE). Our main research target is to find traces of contemporary Austrian national identity deliberations, conflicts, and productions. International comparative case studies are welcome.
Weblink for further information: https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/public-history/
Email: public-history.thks(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Archaeological prospection; aerial archaeology; airborne laser scanning; LiDAR; landscape archaeology; landscape interpretation
Weblink for further information: https://uha.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/universitaetsprofessorinnen/michael-doneus-institutsvorstand/
Email: michael.doneus(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Austrian Contemporary History in the Global Context
Weblink for further information: https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/lucile-dreidemy/
Email: lucile.dreidemy(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I came to Vienna in 2018 and have been teaching the history of science in an increasingly inspiring research environment. We have rapidly grown into a group of 20 scholars working closely together with a focus on history of bureaucratic knowledge, legal and economic histories and resource histories. Before this I had professorships at Humboldt-University Berlin and Technical University Berlin, as well as fellowships at the MPIWG and GHI Washington.
My own research contributes to a network project “Global History of the Enquete”. I study long questionnaire responses on Indigenous law from the German Pacific colonies in legal anthropology. Other work is dedicated to the investigation of data practices (for instance classification and clustering of social data before and after AI), where an emphasis lies with indigenous data sovereignty and data feminism. My latest book focusses on the measurement of resources, and how units of measurement and patterns of justification interact in allocation schemes. I am also co-editor of the journal “Science in Context” and of the book series “Historische Wissensforschung” with Wallstein.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am happy to supervise topics in the history of science and knowledge in the 18-20th century. Areas of expertise include colonial and decolonial histories of Oceania during Imperialism, the social history of quantification (indicators, statistics, models, metrication, cadastral surveying), as well as the history of the humanities and social sciences.
Weblink for further information: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/anna-echterhoelter/
Email: anna.echterhoelter(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My main areas of research are Classical Modernism (Duchamp, Malevich, Mondrian), Minimal and Pop Art of the 1960s, and Institutional Critique and site-specific art of the last few decades. I am particularly interested in the interferences between art and philosophy, as well as art's response to the technological and social conditions of modernity and to the ecological crisis. I also supervise (or co-supervise) theses that are not strictly within my own research field, for example in the nineteenth century, in the intermediate field of art and film, or in performance art and photography.
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/personen/professoreninnen/egenhofer-sebastian/
Email: sebastian.egenhofer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Byzantine Philosophy, Byzantine Intellectual History, Reception of Aristotle, logic, Iconoclasm, religious controversies, history of sciences in Byzantium, byzantine Medicine, Individuality, Portraiture,
Weblink for further information: https://univie.academia.edu/ChristopheErismann
Email: christophe.erismann(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am a cultural anthropologist working within European ethnology, a field rooted in folklore studies and critically engaged with that heritage. My research focuses on urban anthropology, the anthropology of knowledge, and multimodal ethnography. I specialize in cultural analysis of everyday life, with conceptual attention to temporality, relationality, material-semiotic dimensions, and modes of (re)presentation. I am especially happy to supervise qualitative, ethnographic research concerning the French cultural sphere.
Weblink for further information: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/reseachers/alexa-faerber/
Email: alexa.faerber(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
early modern history
history of knowledge and science, esp. the history of earth science and technical sciences
history of sustainability and resource management
Weblink for further information: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/academic-staff/sebastian-felten/
Email: sebastian.felten(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Holocaust Studies, History of National Socialism, History of Dictatorship and Violence; History of Nazi Concentration Camps; Contemporary Hungarian and Austrian History, History of the Carpatho-Ukraine; History of the Interwar Period; Politics of History and Cultures of Remembrance; Oral History, Musealisation
Weblink for further information: https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/regina-fritz/
Email: regina.fritz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am a historian working at the intersection of history of science, environmental history and political history. My research interests and supervision areas include:
History of Science; environmental sciences; ecology; Anthropocene
Political history of knowledge; social movements and activism; popular science
Environmental history; infrastructures and knowledge production; aviation history
Media history; mapping practices; academic publishing
Weblink for further information: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/nils-guettler/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Urban and Rural settlements in the Late Antique and Early Christian periods; Christianization of Roman Castra; Archaeology, visual and material culture of the Late antique, Early Christian/Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East; Mosaics in Late Antiquity; ivory in Late Antiquity; Early Christian monuments of Rome and broadly of the Orbis Christianus Antiquus; Monastic and religious identities; Relics and their circulation between East and West; Hagiography applied to topographic studies.
Weblink for further information: https://klass-archaeologie.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff-members/hamarneh-basema/
Email: basema.hamarneh(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Medieval and Early Modern Art History, especially Northern Renaissance Painting and Netherlandish Art (1400-1700); image theory, optical theories, visual and material culture, technical art history
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/personen/professoreninnen/hindriks-sandra/
Email: sandra.hindriks(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Global and International History
Middle Eastern History
Migration and Mobility
Health and Disease
Education and Literacy
Communication and Global Publics
Global Languages and Linguistic Diversity
Weblink for further information: https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/valeska-huber/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History of central banking in a comparative and global perspective, history of money and means of payment, (hyper-)inflations, exchange rate regimes, financial history of Austria, the Habsburg Empire and Europe more generally, history of government finance and sovereign debt, history of banking, geography of finance, economic history of the Habsburg Empire and Austria, developmental and industrial policies, state-owned enterprises in Western Europe
Weblink for further information: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/persons/clemens-jobst/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Archaeology, Egyptology, material culture, ancient Egyptian society and state formation, prehistoric Egypt
Weblink for further information: https://egyptology.univie.ac.at/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am interested in European and especially Central and Eastern European history from the 18th to 20th century from a transnational and comparative perspective. In particular, I am focusing on Polish history (in particular the history of the 2nd Polish Republic (1918-1939), history of forced migrations from and to Poland in the first years after World War II, the history of state socialism in Poland, the history of the transformations of Polish society after 1989). In terms of methodological approaches, I am focusing on gender history, queer history, intersectionality as a research perspective. I have a strong interest in postcolonial theory and the reconceptualization of area studies after the “spatial turn”. I am also interested in transnational and comparative legal history in the 20th Century, the history of human rights and citizenship and the history of forced migrations
Weblink for further information: https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/claudia-kraft/
Email: claudia.kraft(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Roman cultural history with a focus on musical and poetic forms of expression; Roman epigraphy, especially Carmina Latina Epigraphica and wall inscriptions; Cultural practices of non-elite classes in the Roman Empire; Theatre and mass entertainment in the Roman Empire; Language history as history of mentalities.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I look to support any proposed work in the field of Roman verse inscriptions (Carmina Epigraphica).
Weblink for further information: https://altegeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/members/staff/kruschwitz/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Quantitative economic history with a regional focus on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
- Long-run economic growth, development, and industrialisation
- Historical political economy, particularly the legacies of empire, socialism, and ethnic and religious diversity
- Historical economic geography
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- Economic development in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Drivers and consequences of long-run economic growth and development
- Patterns and determinants of regional inequality
- Socialist and post-socialist economic growth trajectories
- The historical roots of ethnic/religious identity and conflict
- Consequences of imperial rule in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe
Weblink for further information: https://sites.google.com/view/leonardkukic/home
Email: leonard.kukic(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am interested in the history of nationalism, ethno-confessional diversity, borders, and languages, as well as in urban and Jewish history.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
All topics welcome in the field of Central and Eastern European History between 1750 and 1991.
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/boerries.kuzmany/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research fields and topics are: Historical Kinship Studies, History of Family and Marriage, History of Property and Wealth, History of Inheritance Practices and Marital Property Regimes, Social History of Logistics and Infrastructure, Inns and Innkeepers, Alpine socio-material-natural interconnectedness, Cultural History of Administration as well as the Making of Heroes and Heroines. The range of my methodological approaches is equally broad, linking social and economic, legal and political, administrative and cultural as well as gender-specific research perspectives in an integrative approach that combines qualitative and quantitative methods. The theoretical and methodological foundations of my work, which spans from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, are historical anthropology and micro-history. I am happy to supervise PhD students in these research fields and with these approaches.
Weblink for further information: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/people/faculty/lanzinger-margareth/
Email: margareth.lanzinger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Early modern and modern Jewish history, Austrian and Habsburg Jewish History, European Jewish history, intellectual history, history of antisemitism
Weblink for further information: https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/
Email: philipp.lenhard(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am interested in Early Modern History of the Habsburg Monarchy and Europe in a broad sense. I deal with Central European history in various contexts, particularly between Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, and Poland-Lithuania. In addition, I also work on French, Belgian and Italian topics. My main fields of interest are history of the nobility and dynasties, cultural history of politics, economy and law, and the history of administration. Currently I am working on several projects on the history of dynasties, diplomacy and financial history. My personal focus is mainly on the period between the early 17th and late 18th centuries.
Weblink for further information: https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/wissenschaftliche-angehoerige-institut-geschichte/lichy-kolja/
Email: Kolja.Lichy(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Eastern and Central Europe in the 20th century
Intellectual history and history of political thought
History of feminist political thought and feminist movements
Intellectual history in East Central Europe in the 20th century
Feminist political thought
Conceptual and cultural history of violence
Women’s art, Women’s literature (mostly 20th century)
Dissidence, resistance and dissent
Human rights and democracy
Cold War history
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
You are welcome to get in touch before the application deadline.
Weblink for further information: https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/academic-staff/zsofia-lorand/
Email: zsofia.lorand(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Archaeology and History of Western Asia
- Neolithic, Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages
- Settlement, funerary and landscape archaeology in Mesopotamia, Syria, the Levant, Anatolia and the Arabian Peninsula
- Material culture and Interdisciplinary Studies (Geo-archaeology, Environmental Studies, Archaeometry, Petrography, NAA, Bioarcheology, Isotopes Studies, aDNA, Residues Analysis, Archaeometallurgy and Ancient Mines, Gemstones Characterization and Provenance)
- Iconographic and Gender Studies
- Methods and techniques of field archaeology
- Historical geography and regional studies of Syria and Mesopotamia
- Capacity building: Training and empowering today’s female colleagues in Western Asia
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
HEAS Team Leader
https://www.heas.at/about/partners/department-of-prehistoric-and-historical-archaeology-iuha/marta-luciani/
Weblink for further information:
https://uha.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff-members/scientific-staff/associate-and-assistant-professors/marta-luciani/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Medieval and early modern cultural and gender history,
Entangled medieval urban, monastic, and courtly cultures,
Medieval visions and practices of community building,
Political communication and cultures of conflict,
Religious reform movements in high and late medieval (Central) Europe,
Medieval and early modern representations of emotions
Austrian and Central European History
Weblink for further information: https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/wissenschaftliche-angehoerige-institut-geschichte/lutter-christina/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History of Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages (ca. 900-1500); the medieval Holy Roman Empire; medieval political and social history (case studies and comparative); history of governance, administration and corruption in medieval Europe.
Weblink for further information:
https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/wissenschaftliche-angehoerige-institut-geschichte/lyon-jonathan-r/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Areas of interest include:
The Iron Age to Classical Greek world; Ancient Anatolia; Greek interactions with the ancient Near East; Landscape and survey archaeology; Ethnicity and race in antiquity; Migration and colonisation in antiquity; Communality and identity; The use of antiquity in contemporary political discourse
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Specific projects for which material is available:
Landscape of cult and burial in archaic Ionia; the Iron Age in Rough Cilicia; big data approaches to comparative Mediterranean urbanisation; Greek myths of civic origin
Weblink for further information: https://klass-archaeologie.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/institutsmitarbeiterinnen/mac-sweeney-naoise/
Email: naoise.macsweeney(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History didactics with a focus on pragmatic concepts
Holocaust studies and education
Visual history and culture (photography, film, digital media)
History of National Socialism, fascism, right-wing extremism
Antisemitism and racism studies
Jewish history
Public history, memory culture, and politics of memory
Israel studies
Cold War studies with a focus on the legacy of World War II and Nazi atrocities
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Didactic approaches in Holocaust studies and education
Projects on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust in Europe and North Africa
Studies in visual history focusing on photography, film, and/or digital media
Research on antisemitism and/or anti-Jewish terrorism (case studies and/or longue durée approaches)
Studies on Jewish history and Jewish historical sources (archival collections, testimonies, multimedia documents)
Projects on memory politics, political activism in public history, and/or memory culture
Projects on Israeli history and society
Weblink for further information: https://holocauststudies.haifa.ac.il/index.php/faculty-staff/faculty
Email: lmeissel(at)campus.haifa.ac.il
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Ancient Egyptian language, literature, and religion; cultural studies, cultural theory and intercultural relations; narratology and rhetoric
Weblink for further information: https://egyptology.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personal/gerald-moers/
Email: gerald.moers(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Russian History and Politics; International Relations
Weblink for further information: https://iog.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/professors/mueller-wolfgang/
Email: w.mueller(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History of Medicine and the Biomedical Sciences in the 20th Century; History of Sex/Gender Diversity; History of Reproduction and Risks; History of Medical Products; History of Global and Reproductive Health and Justice;
My work rewrites conventional reproductive health histories by shifting focus from experts to newly empowered actors, patient, parent and health activists, to focus on the negotiation of medical knowledge and interventions. I uncover controversy and clashes of expertise where we expect causation, and find diversity of practices and knowledge instead of health political watersheds in the post-thalidomide history. My work on hormone pregnancy tests in Germany and the U.K. has linked the intimate world of families and activists with national and international politics of healthcare and disability. Through a multi-layered analysis, I have demonstrated how health policies, lived experiences and ‘embodied knowledge’ of patients are co-constructed and mutually shaped by local, national and global actors. I development develop methods in symmetrically integrating the patient’s view and her ways of attributing meaning, in connecting multiple dimensions of analysis and systematic ways of addressing ill-preserved, hard-to-reach, and disappearing archives, by creatively drawing on a wide variety of sources in multiple languages.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Sex/Gender Diversity, 1950-1990
Patient Experiences with Klinefelter syndrome, 1950s–1990
Hormone Pregnancy Tests, 1950–1990
Thalidomide in Latin America, the Patient Perspective, 1960–
Weblink for further information: https://fakzen-thks.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/history-of-medicine-and-the-biosciences/
Email: birgit.nemec(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Early Modern History
- Holy Roman Empire and its territories, Europe, British Empire
- constitutional and administrative history, state building
- estates and parliaments, political participation and democracy
- fiscal-military system, contractor state, financial revolution
- money, finance, public credit
- theories and methods of history, cultural history, Actor-Network-Theory, praxeology
Weblink for further information: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/tim-neu/
Email: tim.neu(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Art history of China and East Asia, particularly the early imperial and early Buddhist period
Links between the arts of China and Europe
Reception of East Asian art in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
The team around the chair of Art History of Asia develops a couple of specific research initiatives. PhD projects fitting into or enhancing these foci are particularly welcome. Possible themes include:
- Chinese and chinoise art in 18th century Europe (either case studies of individual sites or specific material – such as wallpaper, lacquer screens and furniture, soap stone carving)
- Impact of World’s Fairs on collecting Chinese/Japanese art in 19th century Europe
- Stone working and stone architecture in early and medieval China
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/personen/professoreninnen/nickel-lukas/
Email: lukas.nickel(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Prehistoric archaeology, Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Pleistocene to early Holocene, Middle Palaeolithic, Upper Palaeolithic, archaeology of Neanderthals and modern humans, site formation processes, interdisciplinary approaches, lithic technology, mobility in the Palaeolithic
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Raw Material Economy in the Upper Palaeolithic of Central Europe
Backed tools of the Gravettian of the Middle Danube Region
Lithic technology of Early/Mid Upper Palaeolithic
Fire in the Upper Palaeolithic of the Middle Danube region
Mobility in the Upper Palaeolithic
Site formation processes in periglacial environments
Weblink for further information: https://palaeo.univie.ac.at
Email: philip.nigst(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Migration history (focus on Eastern Europe & the Soviet Union, East-West migration, also interested in southern Europe, esp. Greece); history of racism (with a focus on Eastern Europe); history of postsocialist transformation; transnational and comparative history; German history; Jewish history; Israeli history; Greek history
Weblink for further information: https://www.recet.at/our-team/detail/jannis-panagiotidis
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Romanesque and Gothic Figural Art in German-speaking regions, France, and Italy
Medieval Image Theory, Experience, Reception, Somaesthetics
Scale and measurment
Materiality and Medium
Modern Christian Art in the Holy Land, 1900–present
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
My current projects which you might join:
St. Stephan in Vienna: The Dynamics of Change:
A Global (Art) History of Giants
The Scaling Revolution: Western Visual Culture, 1300–1500
Modern Christian Art in the Holy Land, 1900–present
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/personen/professoreninnen/pinkus-assaf/
Email: assaf.pinkus(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Prehistoric Archaeology, Europe in the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages, archaeology of the human body and social identities, gender archaeology, archaeology of motherhood, kinship analyses, interdisciplinary bioarchaeology (anthropology, DNA, proteomics, isotope analyses)
Weblink for further information:
https://uha.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff-members/scientific-staff/university-professors/katharina-rebay-salisbury/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
transformation of the Roman world, identity and diversity in late Antique and medieval Europe, manuscript cultures in medieval Europe, legal history (late Roman to medieval Europe)
Weblink for further information: https://history.princeton.edu/people/helmut-reimitz
Email: hreimitz(at)princeton.edu
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am a historian of science and the environment whose work explores how Earthly materials have been used to articulate broad social ideas. My research traces how concepts such as “deep time,” “sustainability,” and “energy” have been materialized in substances like ice—the focus of my first book—and wood—the focus of my second. Bringing together materiality, temporality, and aesthetics, I investigate how the Earth itself becomes a site of knowledge-making. My work asks what role history can play in a time of environmental crisis, showing how interdisciplinary, nonhuman-centred histories—told across deep timescales—can offer essential insight into contemporary planetary challenges.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I welcome students interested in environmental history, the history of science, and the environmental or geohumanities. Possible topics include histories of Earth science, climate knowledge, cryospheric/glacial worlds, deep time and nonhuman temporalities, materials such as ice, wood, or minerals, and the cultural or political work these substances perform. I also encourage projects that examine the Anthropocene, environmental imaginaries, and the visual or aesthetic dimensions of Earthly knowledge-making. I’m enthusiastic about supervising students who use interdisciplinary methods, draw on unconventional archives, or take creative approaches to research, including those whose training is outside traditional history.
Weblink for further information: https://alexisrider.com/
Email: alexis.rider(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Islamic art history, visual and material cultures in Islam, focused on but not limited to: architecture, imagery, and fine arts objects in Arabic, Persian and Turkish speaking cultures, from the medieval to early modern periods. Transfer and reception phenomena across geographies of Islamic art, and the reception of Islamic art in Europe. Historiography and history of Islamic art history.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Doctoral projects that relate to the broader research interests and supervisions areas mentioned above are welcome. For more specific fields on which I have been working and publishing, see: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/staff/professors/ritter-markus/ritter-publications/
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/staff/professors/ritter-markus/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
International history and history of international organizations (late 19th to early 21st century), especially: history of technology governance; history of arms control and nonproliferation; history of science diplomacy.
Weblink for further information:
https://iaea-history.univie.ac.at/;
https://ifg.univie.ac.at/en/elisabeth-roehrlich/
Email: elisabeth.roehrlich(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Italian Renaissance art; Nineteenth-century art in France; History of abstraction in art: History of art literature and art reception; Cognitive research in art history
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/staff/professors/rosenberg-raphael/
Email: raphael.rosenberg(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Late Medieval and Early Modern European History, Social and Economic History, Slavery Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Social Inequality and Dependency studies, Labour History, Microhistory, Global History, Historical Semantics, History of Venice, Comparative History
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects:
- histories of Mediterranean slavery
- histories of work and asymmetrical dependencies
- research on the transition from late medieval economic systems to early capitalist and colonial systems
- histories of Venice and the Venetian empire
- research on the global Middle Ages and postcolonial perspectives on the Middle Ages
- comparative or entangled histories of premodern Eurasia
- social spaces and inequalities in urban and/or rural contexts (1300–1800)
Doctoral position linked to the Department of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
Within the framework of this pooled call, I also offer a specific doctoral position situated at the Department of Economic and Social History.
Applicants interested in this position should demonstrate:
solid academic training in economic and social history
a dissertation project situated in late medieval and/or early modern economic and social history
very good command of Latin and English
ideally, an additional premodern source language and a modern foreign language
basic paleographical skills
awareness of relevant theories and methods
Applicants should outline in their research proposal how their project fits within these thematic fields and methodological expectations.
Alongside this position, I remain open to supervising varied dissertation projects across the fields described above.
Weblink for further information: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/menschen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/schiel-juliane/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am a cultural anthropologist working from the perspective of European ethnology, which has its origins in folklore studies and critically examines this tradition. My research focuses on ethnographic methods (especially field research), the transformation of rural areas, cultural studies of urban research, urban-rural relations, postcolonial social and cultural analysis (especially Namibia-Germany), doing university, ethnicity and migration, historical anthropology, and doing gender. I specialize in the cultural analysis of everyday life from an ethnographic perspective. Therefore, I am particularly pleased to supervise ethnographic research projects that explicitly focus on everyday life.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- German traces in postcolonial Namibia
- Everyday life and transition in Austrian border regions
Weblink for further information: https://euroethnologie.univie.ac.at/institut/personal/wissenschaftliches-personal/brigitta-schmidt-lauber/
Email: brigitta.schmidt-lauber(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Work / Care Work in Contemporary Art
Materiality and Production in Contemporary Art
Gender Issues in Contemporary Art
Art and New Right / Fascism
Reception and Continuities of Fascism in Art
Art and Politics in the Art in Contemporary Art
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/personen/professoreninnen/sigler-friederike/
Email: friederike.sigler(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research addresses migration history as well as regional and global movements in the Habsburg Empire and Central Europe in a comparative and transnational context from the Early Modern Period to the 21th century with a special emphasis on gender aspects. Further research interests are industrialization and urbanization and the history of crafts and commerce. I am a specialist in quantitative historical methods.
Weblink for further information: https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/menschen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/steidl-annemarie/
Email: annemarie.steidl(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses on modern history and especially on women’s and gender history from the 18th century onwards, with a particular focus on transnational, colonial or global connections. I am generally interested in the construction, interpretation, hierarchization or negotiation of differences, as well as the workings of gender and other categorizations of difference in specific historical fields, such as transnational mobility, charity and welfare, humanitarianism, or civil society and religious movements.
Weblink for further information: https://ifg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/katharina-stornig/#c2
Email: katharina.stornig(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research examines the role of images as expressions of social structures and cultural dynamics in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. I focus on transformation processes visible in catacombs, sarcophagi and Byzantine iconographies across objects and monuments. A text-based approach is central, especially for linking liturgical, hagiographical and other textual sources with works of art to analyze interactions between text, image and space. Further interests include the transfer and mobility of artistic motifs shaped by encounters between Byzantium and neighboring regions, traced through historical, social, ethnographic, written and material evidence. Special emphasis lies on Georgian art.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible topics include the study of visual and material cultures of Late Antiquity and Byzantium; transformation processes in funerary contexts (catacombs, sarcophagi); Byzantine iconography in monumental and portable objects; interactions between liturgical, hagiographical and other textual sources and artistic production; mobility and transfer of motifs across regions in the Mediterranean and Caucasus; cross-cultural dynamics reflected in architecture, objects and illuminated manuscripts; and research on Georgian art within broader Byzantine networks.
Weblink for further information: https://kunstgeschichte.univie.ac.at/personen/professoreninnen/studer-karlen-manuela/
Email: manuela.studer-karlen(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I will be joining University of Vienna by August 1, 2026 as a full professor of modern social and cultural history. Research interests include the history of colonialism and decolonization (in particular German, French, and British empires), historical epistemology of the human sciences, history of everyday life and historical anthropology, history of capitalism, social movements, postcolonial studies, relation between history and social theory. My most recent book is a theoretically informed "people’s history“ of money in the age of empire (Geld and der Grenze: Souveränität und Wertmaßstäbe im Zeitalter des Imperialismus, 1871-1923). Currently, I am about to complete a monograph on the history of psychoanalysis between West Africa and Western Europe in the sixties.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I would be keen to hear from prospectives students in the fields of the social and cultural history of Europe in the world, and would in particular welcome projects spanning several languages and regions. Fields in which I have supervised in the past include the history of capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the history of the human sciences and racism in the period of decolonization.
Weblink for further information: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/faculty/mischa-suter
Email: mischa.suter(at)graduateinstitute.ch
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Social and Economic history
Nationalism
Migration
Music history
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
History of transformations
Business & labor history
Central and Eastern Europe after 1945
History of the Habsburg Empire (after ca. 1780)
Comparative History
The themes depend on the proposal of the applicant
Weblink for further information: https://www.recet.at/our-team/detail/philipp-ther
Email: philipp.ther(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research and supervision focus on high-resolution geophysical archaeological prospection, developing and applying near-surface methods (GPR, magnetometry, marine/underwater acoustics and SONAR). Core interests include survey design and data acquisition in challenging environments, advanced processing, integration and interpretation of datasets, and digital 3D documentation in archaeology. I have particular expertise in Scandinavian Iron Age sites and landscapes.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- Archaeological prospection and robust data positioning in challenging environments (forested, uneven, or built-up terrain).
- High-resolution geophysical investigations of Napoleonic battlefields in the wider Vienna region.
- Advancing sidescan sonar methodologies for shallow-water archaeological prospection in Austria.
- Multibeam echosounder and sediment sonar applications for underwater archaeological prospection.
- Configuration, testing and large-scale deployment of a multichannel MIRA Flex GPR array for high-resolution archaeological surveys.
- Archaeological anomaly modelling in GPR using gprMax and validation against controlled and real-world datasets.
- Machine-learning approaches for automated detection, classification and mapping of archaeological features in GPR data.
Weblink for further information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Immo_Trinks
Email: immo.trinks(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Medieval European history and archaeology, particularly in the context of social and religious history and archaeology, as well as material culture. Digital Humanities, with a focus on topics related to the broader field of Spatial Humanities, particularly involving geospatial analysis and spatial network analysis.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I especially welcome PhD topics within the broader research interest of the ERC project RELIC, which proposes a complex, comparative analysis and contextualisation of archaeological, art historical (standing monuments), and historical remains of the rural population living on the eastern fringes of the HRE during the Ottonian and Salian periods (10th -12th c.), exploring the influences of centres and networks of secular and ecclesiastical lords, of the natural environment, and of the economic infrastructure. Investigating this often-overlooked segment of the population, its hitherto unexplored or neglected role allows us to study how (top-level) changes in political and ecclesiastical organisations can be reflected in the evidence concerning the lower levels of society and of the local church network; how different strategies worked in different political settings, and what role local initiatives/agencies could have played in religious and political shifts.
Weblink for further information:
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/maria-vargha/
Email: maria.vargha(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Social and economic history from the 19th to the 20th century: history of work, livelihood practices and mobility; ego-documents; bureaucratic interactions (e.g. practices of identification and registration).
Weblink for further information: https://www.sigridwadauer.com/
Email: sigrid.wadauer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Early moden intellectual history, church history, digital humanities (including digital scholarly editing)
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
A computational analysis of early modern scholastic thought; A canon law history of the early modern Holy Roman Empire
Weblink for further information: https://geschichtsforschung.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/wissenschaftliche-angehoerige-institut-geschichte/wallnig-thomas-dekanat/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Ancient numismatics and monetary history, with a specific focus on the Roman empire; history of numismatic scholarship
Weblink for further information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0854-2563
Email: bernhard.woytek(at)univie.ac.at
Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VPD)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Philosophy of Technology, including Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
Weblink for further information: https://philtech.univie.ac.at/team/mark-coeckelbergh/
Email: mark.coeckelbergh(at)univie.ac.at
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Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Philosophy of Religion, Ontological Arguments, Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, Philosophy and Hebrew Bible
Weblink for further information: https://members.phl.univie.ac.at/heinrich-ramharter/
Email: esther.heinrich(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
ethics, analytic ethics, political philosohy, environmental ethics and climate ethics, ethics of war and peace, future ethics
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects:
the philosophy of change, future-proof ethics/ future ethics, ethics in the Anthropocene, peace ethics, current war ethics, normative foundations of democracy, human rights
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/angela.kallhoff/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Renaissance Philosophy
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy, Philosophy of Late Antiquity, Ancient ethics, Ancient Metaphysics, Ancient epistemology
Weblink for further information: https://antikephilosophie.univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Philosophy of language (especially natural language semantics, pragmatics, representational content, de se content/centred content, foundations of semantics, linguistic conventions, conversation models, derogatory language), metaethics (especially expressivism, non-cognitivism, error theory, fictionalism, analytic reductionism), epistemology (e.g. scepticism, contextualism), Metaphysics (truth), metaphilosophy, conceptual engineering.
Weblink for further information: https://members.phl.univie.ac.at/koelbel/
Email: max.koelbel(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History of philosophy of Enlightenment (17th and 18th centuries) and modernity (19th and 20th centuries);
Immanuel Kant's (1724–1804) transcendental philosophy and its reception in German idealism;
Women philosophers in the German tradition (19th and 20th centuries);
Philosophy of life;
Phenomenology;
Philosophy of Mind in the History of Modern Philosophy;
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the History of Modern Philosophy;
Weblink for further information: https://www.katharinatkraus.com
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Social Ontology, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Social Science, History of Ideas
Weblink for further information: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/hans.bernhard.schmid/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Core research and supervision areas: Philosophy of logic and language; metaphysics; ontology; history of analytic philosophy.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects:
Supervision is possible on my own core topics: metaphysical grounding; explanation and 'because'; truth; ontology of properties and substances; ontology of propositions and facts; some mereology; Bernard Bolzano; Gottlob Frege. But supervision is not restricted to these. Further possibilites include various topics in my research areas.
Weblink for further information: https://phloxgroup.wordpress.com/; https://benjaminschnieder.wordpress.com/;
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I work in the analytic tradition. I am supervising students in moral philosophy, epistemology (including moral epistemology), philosophy of mind.
Weblink for further information: https://paulinasliwa.weebly.com/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Phenomenology (classical and contemporary, applied, critical), political and social philosophy, philosophy of religion, violence
Weblink for further information: https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/michael-staudigl/
Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research lies at the intersection between political economy and economic sociology and focuses on institutional change, discourse and ideas, and the political constitution of the economy. Empirically, I am interesting in climate-vulnerable industries and regional economies, neoliberal economic ideas, and far-right populism.
Weblink for further information: https://soc.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/valentina-ausserladscheider/
Email: valentina.ausserladscheider(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am a demographer and my research focuses on fertility and family changes among women and men in high-income countries, particularly the shift towards later fertility.
Supervision areas: fertility (trends and contextual factors), determinants of childbearing, reproduction (with a demographic perspective).
Weblink for further information: https://biclate.univie.ac.at/
Email: eva.beaujouan(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research centers around the use of advanced statistical models and computational analysis to study political communication phenomena, ranging from formal political communication and election campaigns to issues of migration, climate change and European integration. Substantially I am interested in the role of social media platforms and traditional media in shaping how people encounter, process and are affected politically by media in contemporary media environments. To that end we use and critically reflect on various computational approaches, such NLP/ text-as-data/ computational content analysis methods, social network approaches, and simulations, including ABMs, as well as genAI-based methodologies. Additionally, I work on the role of modalities in shaping the processing and effects of mediated communication.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible themes include both substantial research on media and politics in the broadest sense, as well as developments of and critical reflection on innovative computational methods approaches.
Weblink for further information: www.hajoboomgaarden.com
Email: hajo.boomgaarden(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Ageing, intergenerational relationships, family, well-being, life course, attitudes to climate change.
The project to be supervised should use quantitative methods.
Weblink for further information: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personalverzeichnis/detailansicht-personalverzeichnis/user/valeriab19/inum/1125/backpid/83313/
Email: valeria.bordone(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I work at the intersection of political economy, comparative politics, and political behavior. Substantively, my research examines how structural economic transformations (deindustrialization, globalization, technological change, and the green transition) generate distributional effects and shape political outcomes, as well as how governments design inclusive and sustainable public policies.
I am interested in supervising students working in these areas, and more broadly on projects related to social policy, fiscal policy, environmental policy, technological change, the green transition, and different growth models. For more information on my research, see: https://retobuergisser.com/
Weblink for further information: https://staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/scientific-staff/reto-buergisser/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am the leader of the team Sedimented Visions that brings together the study of visual cultures, political life, and material worlds. I welcome ethnography-driven PhD projects that explore the nexus across these dimensions of social life as well as those investigating ideas and practices around the future, both in the global south and north. As a result of my ERC Advanced Grant ANTHROFUTURE, I am also keen to supervise projects on the art world.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Art world, future, inequality and social justice, modernity, political agency, gender and politics, global cultural economy, digital media, digital ethnography, multimodality, South Asia, Middle East, Global South
Weblink for further information: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/professorinnen/ciotti-manuela/
Email: manuela.ciotti(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Development Studies, 'North-South' Relations and Global Inequality, Migration (and Development), Development Policy, Postcolonial Studies, Youth and Social Movements, Gender Relations and Intersectionality, Qualitative Methodologies and Methods
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Migration and Gender Relations, Youth and Social Movements, Antifeminist Movements and Masculinities
Weblink for further information: https://ie.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/scientific-staff/petra-dannecker/
Email: petra.dannecker(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Digital cultures and practices
Knowledge production, contestation, and dissemination
Data work
Reflexivity and autoethnography
AI and society
(Academic) writing as knowledge practice
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I supervise research that studies the digital as material practice in contexts where knowledge is created, disseminated, and/or contested. My team therefore takes a Science and Technology Studies approach to understanding the relations between the digital and the epistemic, in contexts that range from online activism to the maintenance and care work involved in research infrastructure such as public biodatabases.
Weblink for further information: https://sts.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/staff/sarah-davies/user/daviess4/inum/1129/backpid/203353/
Email: sarah.davies(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Social Reproduction
Health and Social Care
Feminist Political Economy
Social Movements
Eco-Social Transformation
Sociologies of Work
Weblink for further information: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/research/research-teams/team-dowling/
Email: emma.dowling(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Political sociology with a thematic focus on emotions, democracy, and contemporary societal transformations
candidates who will explore:
- how emotions shape political and social processes
- how institutional structures respond to emotional demands
- how vulnerability, belonging, and recognition become entangled with governance and instituions.
Candidates working with me investigate emotions as structuring forces that influence how people experience crises, how institutions justify decisions, and how societies negotiate legitimacy, cohesion, and conflict. I am interested in guiding research that traces the blurring of boundaries between private experience and public/political expectations; whether in debates on polarization, climate anxiety, loneliness, or social isolation. Projects should be theoretically grounded and empirically attentive to how emotions are embedded in participation, identity formation, and visions of social order.
The empirical focus may be national or comparative.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Applicants should be interested in the political sociology of emotions and in examining how emotional life intersects with democratic practices, belonging, and institutional responses to crises.
Potential doctoral projects may address:
- how emotions shape political participation, withdrawal, and trust in institutions
- emotional narratives of climate anxiety, insecurity, or care, and their impact on democratic expectations
- loneliness, vulnerability, fear, or anger as social and political force
- practices through which emotions are made visible, silenced, or delegitimized in public discourse
- how emotional vocabularies contribute to the construction of collective identities and boundaries
- affective dynamics in struggles over recognition, well-being, or autonomy
- the role of emotions in reconfiguring what counts as a political issue, actor, or responsibility
The empirical focus may be local, national, or comparative. Projects using interpretive methods, and motivated by empirical curiosity and theoretical innovation, are particularly welcome. Mixed Methods are also possible.
Weblink for further information: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/en/research/research-teams/team-durnova/
Email: anna.durnova(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Strategic communication of organizations, particularly multinational enterprises (MNEs), with their internal and external stakeholders
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Corporate sustainability communication of multinational enterprises in regions with differing regulatory and stakeholder demands; Corporate communication on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in times of diverging stakeholder expectations; Fostering inclusion and psychological safety in organizations through employee communication
Weblink for further information: https://ccom.univie.ac.at/
Email: sabine.einwiller(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
political parties, political elites, political institutions, welfare states, Austria
Weblink for further information: https://staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliches-personal/laurenz-ennser-jedenastik/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Ethics of public communication (media ethics) | pragmatism (and social sciences) | ethics of technology/digital ethics | normative aspects of social theories | political ethics/practical social philosophy | (empirical) social sciences and ethics | basic questions of Christian social ethics
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am particularly looking for doctoral candidates in the field of society and AI, especially those interested in how AI transformations affect issues of justice.
Weblink for further information: https://se-ktf.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/alexander-filipovic/
Email: alexander.filipovic(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I work in Science and Technology Studies, on cultures of knowledge production in academia and other societal spaces. My research work revolves around the question how researchers, research communities and research institutions orient themselves and their work in the environmental, political and social polycrisis we are facing today. I am interested in how these actors define the purpose, aims and values underlying their practices, and how this translates to how they produce knowledge. This involves asking how researchers and research communities reflect the relevance of their work, and how this meets support or frictions in their institutional environment. It also comprises to understand how research institutions, and universities in particular, define their role in society and how this relates to the way they structure the spaces their researchers work in.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am interested to supervise doctoral project that engage with the contemporary cultures of knowledge production. These can be on the level of individual scientists and their careers, on the level of research communities or with a focus on institutions of knowledge production such as universities. Relevant topics can include but are not limited to: (new) forms of academic assessment and evaluation and their impact, inter- and transdisciplinarity, the engagement with societal actors in knowledge production, responsible research and innovation, the commercialisation of research and academic capitalism, and university governance and policy. Thematically I have particular interest to supervise thesis studying environmental research broadly defined, the life sciences and/or the social sciences.
Weblink for further information: https://sts.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/scientific-staff/wissenschaftliche-ma/maximilian-fochler/
Email: maximilian.fochler(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Science & Technology Studies and Sociology
Social, economic and cultural studies of pharmaceuticals
Social studies of medicine, health and politics
Science, technology and innovation policy in/for global health
Critical Biopolitics Studies
Methodological focus: qualitative, interpretive and ethnographic approaches
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- global health governance in relation to Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
- political economy of pharmaceutical R&D and biomedical innovation (and innovation policy)
- global health R&D and governance;
- scientific, medical, and policy aspects of AMR governance
Weblink for further information: https://sts.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/staff/christian-haddad/
Email: christian.haddad(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
All areas of Journalism Studies. I am particularly interested in the production of journalism, which explores role perceptions of traditional as well as new journalistic actors, including influencers, corporate journalism or party press media. Much of my research is comparative in nature, and interested in how socio-cultural influences shape journalistic practices and professional views. Areas within journalism that are of particular interest to me are local journalism, lifestyle journalism, Indigenous journalism, but I am open to exploring in more detail all other forms of journalism. A further aspect of interest is the broader transformation of journalism culture through technological affordances, as well as audience expectations of news.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Boundaries of Journalism, Peripheral actors in journalism, Role perceptions of traditional and non-traditional journalists, Bourdieusian thought in journalism, Lifestyle journalism, Local journalism, Indigenous journalism, Expansions on the concept of embeddedness
Weblink for further information: https://journalismstudies.univie.ac.at/team/folker-hanusch/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I am a professor of nursing science, social scientist, and health services researcher. My research focuses on innovations in primary health care and long-term care, with an emphasis on integrated, community-oriented systems for people with chronic conditions. I particularly investigate interprofessional collaboration, evolving nursing roles, and advanced practice models. I contributed to understandings of how user, family, and community participation can be meaningfully embedded in primary health care and long-term care, and the conditions nurses face in promoting it. I have led qualitative, cross-country research and coordinated networks to foster comparative learning and reflexive, context-sensitive methodologies. I have 11 years of leadership experience, supporting early career academics in nursing and public health. I am particularly committed to advancing qualitative methods and international exchange to unlock the potential of research across health and care systems.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am open to doctoral projects in my research areas, in particular
- Primary health care nursing, e.g., role development, advanced nursing practice, continuity of care, interprofessional collaboration.
- Long-term care for older persons, e.g., team-based care, health-oriented leadership
- User/patient experiences with PHC / LTC services, e.g. access, care relationships
- Integrated PHC; coordination and integration of PHC and LTC, respectively health and social care.
- Community-oriented PHC / LTC, e.g. community outreach, community participation, intersectoral approaches
- PHC/LTC in rural and disadvantaged regions/communities
- PHC/LTC and climate change
Projects with an international and global perspective, e.g., through a cross-country comparative approach or cross-country learning in the areas of primary health care, long-term care, and nursing, are welcome.
Weblink for further information: https://pflegewissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/pers/kerstin-haemel/
Email: kerstin.haemel(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My team and I study how people navigate digital environments in daily life, focusing on communication research perspectives. At the intersection of media psychology, health communication, and mobile communication. I am interested in how smartphones and platforms like TikTok or Instagram shape mental health, identity, relationships, and resilience. We study short-form entertainment, influencer culture, online self-diagnosis, and digital disconnection—exploring both how youth engage with media and communication and how they intentionally step away.
Guided by curiosity and critical thinking, I am eager exploring new questions, including but not limited to these:
1) Digital disconnection, digital norms, and everyday media habits
2) AI companions, chatbots, and emerging forms of social relationships
3) Influencers, AI, and contemporary health communication
I welcome theoretically grounded PhD projects that relate to these themes or expand them in new and societally relevant ways.
Weblink for further information: https://www.kathrinkarsay.com/
Email: kathrin.karsay(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Research interests cover the territorial dimension of social policies from a comparative perspective (e.g., analysing ALMP and/or social investment or social assistance policies in different welfare regimes, ....), multilevel governance constellations (local, regional, and national welfare arrangements). Social innovation and participatory practices. Social and ecological sustainability (e.g., investigating trade-offs and/or complementarities between housing and greening policies), as well as transitional phases between school and working life (e.g., different transitions across different schooling systems with different tracking systems and skill formation systems).
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
The relation between social and environmental policies (conflict, synergies, complementarity), considering selected policies and understanding their relationality. The multilevel governance of social policies and rescaling processes for selected policies, considering both vertical (scales of government) and horizontal (type of actors) subsidiarity. The resulting territorial inequality patterns of the rescaling processes.
Weblink for further information: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/forschung/forschungsteams/team-kazepov/
Email: yuri.kazepov(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
critical medical anthropology, environment and health, medicine and labour, healthcare activism, medicine and politics, feminist science and technology studies, intersectional inequalities in health, biomedicine and supply chains, Latin American (social) medicine, global and planetary health
Weblink for further information: https://health-matters.univie.ac.at/
Email: janina.kehr(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Science and Technology Studies, Social studies of Outer Space, Space Infrastructures, Imaginaries and Politics, Security and Innovation Governance, Space Debris, Science, Technology and International Relations, Critical Security Studies, Space Debris, Futures, Geopolitics
Weblink for further information: https://futurespace-project.eu
Email: nina.witjes(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses on Citizens’ Political Attitudes and Voting Behaviour, Democratic Representation, Political Socialization and Communication, and Survey Research.
Weblink for further information: https://staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/wissenschaftliches-personal/sylvia-kritzinger/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I lead the Political Communication Research Group, which examines the intersection of politics, communication, and citizens. Our work focuses on four main areas:
- AI and digital technologies in political communication,
- diversity of voices in political communication,
- the politics of science communication, and
- the quality of political communication and political journalism. We use a wide range of research methods, from computational approaches and experiments to qualitative research.
I am also one of the coordinators of the new Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism, which trains doctoral candidates to critically examine and shape the digital transformation of society, and I coordinate a new university research platform on trustworthy science communication.
I supervise projects across these areas and methods, with a strong interest in team supervision and internationalisation, including collaborations within and beyond the University of Vienna.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Doctoral candidates are free to choose their own topics, and I welcome all proposals that fall within our broader research interests.
However, I am currently expanding our group’s expertise in the following themes, and supervision teams can easily be formed on these themes:
- Digital Humanism (including proposals from candidates from ICT)
- Polycrisis, Resilience and Political Communication
- Sustainability of AI Innovation
- Inclusion, Inequality, and Diversity in the News
- Futures of Political Communication
Weblink for further information: https://polcom.univie.ac.at
Email: sophie.lecheler(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Digital media effects, media psychology, advertising effects, social media, AI and society, environmental communication
Weblink for further information: https://advertisingresearch.univie.ac.at/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Political institutions of representative democracies, in particular legislative and executive politics; political competition; political communication; voter perceptions of politics (e.g. perceptions of electoral processes & government formation)
Weblink for further information: https://www.thomas-meyer.eu/
Email: thomas.meyer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History of development, decolonization, international organizations, North South conflict.
Weblink for further information: https://ie.univie.ac.at/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiterinnen/eva-maria-muschik/
Email: eva-maria.muschik(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Anthropocene, ecological collapse, and political ecology
Energy transition and energy justice
Energy colonialism, green colonialism, and green extractivism
Development theories and development cooperation
Green hydrogen
Green finance
Postcolonial/decolonial studies
Qualitative methods
Social-ecological transformation and transformation conflicts
Western and Southern Africa
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
just hydrogen transition
Green finance + the Green Climate Fund / other green funds
Anthropocene and collective ecological survival
Weblink for further information: https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=1015976
Email: franziska.mueller(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research and supervision focus on family caregiving across the life course, with emphasis on transitional processes but also on children, adolescents, and young adults as caregivers. I am particularly interested in chronic illness in families, children with chronic or palliative care needs, and the development of theory-based complex interventions to support families and those directly affected by illness in home, inpatient, and day-care settings. Further interests include caregiving transitions, the formation of caregiver identity, meaningful participation of children in care, and the promotion of justice and equity in caregiving.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible doctoral research topics can also include advocacy in care, the health agency and distributed health literacy of children. These topics can be explored in the context of family caregiving and chronicall ore acute illness, highlighting, how families navigate health information and decision-making, and how justice, equity, and empowerment can be promoted in caregiving and health contexts.
Weblink for further information: https://pflegewissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/martin-nagl-cupal/
Email: martin.nagl-cupal(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I supervise theses in the area of health governance with the following themes:
- digital health (apps, e-health)
- public health (eg vaccination, antibiotics, obesity etc)
- the politics of public health monitoring and surveillance (wastewater monitoring, governmental surveillance)
- knowledge politics and evidence based policy(eg consideration of lived experiences in health care reforms, citizen science etc).
My expertise is in qualitative methods.
Weblink for further information: https://www.katharinatpaul.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Social constructionism and communicative constructivism, in particular communicative forms of action such as chat communication especially with Generative and Communicative AI (ComAI), communicative genres, interpretive writing, singing, and other forms of sound production;
- Sociality and collectivization through
- digital infrastructures,
- physical coordination and event organization, and
- artifacts
- Crisis of professional expertise and science skepticism; knowledge cultures, climate cultures, literature/climate fiction
Weblink for further information: http://www.soz.univie.ac.at/michaela-pfadenhauer
Email: michaela.pfadenhauer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Carolina Plescia is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on public opinion, electoral behavior, political representation, and party competition. She investigates how citizens hold elected officials accountable, the relationship between voter satisfaction with electoral institutions and political behavior, and citizens' perceptions of their role in democracies and electoral autocracies. Her work also explores democratic innovations, political participation, and legitimacy. She supervises research on voter attitudes and preferences as well as voting behavior, political representation, and democratic innovations.
Weblink for further information: https://www.carolinaplescia.com
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
As associate professor at the department of nursing science, my research areas encompass palliative care, dementia care and long-term care for elderly people. Within these fields one focus lies on questions along gender and diversity issues as well as feminist care ethics. Psychosocial, organizational and societal aspects are of special interest. My research contributes to understanding how marginalized persons or groups can participate and given space and voice in research, health care and nursing science. Working with interdisciplinary background and in transdisciplinary teams I have many years of experience in leading research projects, doing qualitative, multi-methods and participatory research.
Weblink for further information: https://pflegewissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/elisabeth-reitinger/
Email: elisabeth.reitinger(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
At the Vienna Media Change and Innovation Lab, we pursue four research areas:
- Growing up with AI: We examine how AI shapes children’s and adolescents’ learning, social relationships and identity, weighing benefits and risks within family and peer contexts and investigating parental mediation.
- Intergroup relations in virtual environments: We study how AI and VR can both reinforce prejudice by conveying bias and promote social cohesion by reducing language barriers and enabling immersive insights into other cultures.
- Political engagement in digital environments: We analyze how influencers, virtual personalities, social bots and deep fakes affect political opinion, participation, misinformation and trust, with a focus on youth and cross-national comparison.
- Digital media literacy and autonomy: We explore how users regain control in digital spaces through media literacy and self-determination using innovative research methods.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible themes for doctoral projects (not exhaustive):
• Effects of ChatGPT use on subjective and objective academic performance
• Algorithmic curation on social media shaping adolescent worldviews
• Voice assistants and their impact on childhood communication norms
• Family conflict caused by emerging technologies
• Parental self-efficacy in AI-mediated parenting
• AI translation and quality of intercultural interaction
• VR empathy training and prejudice reduction in schools
• Influencers and virtual influencers in political opinion formation and youth engagement
• Deep fakes, social bots and institutional trust erosion
• Lifespan patterns of digital opinion formation
• Data donations in media research
• Measurement burst designs for behaviour tracking
Weblink for further information: https://mediainnovation.univie.ac.at
Email: desiree.schmuck(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My attention is currently focused on the following issues. First, I study how the Chinese state seeks to morally engineer society by shaping citizens’ behaviors, values, and beliefs toward greater concern for the common good and toward social conservatism. Second, I investigate how privacy and surveillance are perceived, debated, and negotiated in Chinese society. In particular, I examine how citizens understand different threats to their privacy and how the state frames surveillance in ways that deepen its penetration of society. Third, I analyze how citizens in East Asia (currently Taiwan, South Korea, and China) imagine their political community and identity. Fourth, I am interested in how the process of rapid modernization has affected political culture, values, and behaviors in Chinese-speaking societies.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am open to (co-)supervise topics investigating issues that are related to my current research foci. I can also supervise a broader range of research designs on political culture, political behavior, and contentious politics, when they are comparative and have an East Asian/Chinese angle.
Weblink for further information: http://hcsteinhardt.org/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research and supervision focus on economic anthropology through critical approaches to social reproduction, with a recent emphasis on queer‑Marxian modalities of critique. I examine how labor, gender and sexuality, care, violence, and solidarity organize social life and inequality, and how difference and racialization intersects with the (re)production of capitalist sociality. I study consent to dominant orders, rising authoritarianism, and social movements that imagine alternative futures. I also explore economy’s entanglements with coloniality, including territorial demarcation, the hierarchization of populations, the making of economic entities, and the financialization of nature. I welcome projects on social reproduction, queer‑Marxian critique, economies of care, racial capitalism, coloniality and extraction, and movements for economic transformation.
Weblink for further information: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/professorinnen/streinzer-andreas/
Email: andreas.streinzer(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Population-environment interactions, population projections, spatial demography, assortative mating
Weblink for further information: https://www.wittgensteincentre.org/en/staff/member/striessnig.htm
Email: erich.striessnig(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Anthropology of the State, Kinship, Care, Postsocialist Societies
Weblink for further information:
https://carestate.univie.ac.at/,
https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/professorinnen/thelen-tatjana/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses broadly on the role of digital media in youth’s psychosocial, emotional, and cognitive development. I approach digital behaviors from an interpersonal perspective, starting from the premise that peer relationships, group norms, and shared online cultures fundamentally shape how adolescents engage with technology. Key topics include media literacy, the social dynamics that shape digital engagement, and the ways digital media supports young people’s learning, connection, and participation. In addition, my work identifies the circumstances in which digital contexts may challenge well-being. I adopt a broad conceptualization of digital media - encompassing generative AI, social media, and mobile communication - and examine how these technologies shape core developmental outcomes such as identity formation, body image, social functioning, and cognitive processes. Methodologically, my research integrates experimental, longitudinal, ESM, and social network approaches to capture adolescents’ everyday interactions across digital settings.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Potential topics or themes could include the social dynamics of adolescents’ digital media use; peer influence and network processes (e.g., friendships) in shaping online engagement; the development digital media literacy and how adolescents apply these skills in their everyday digital interactions; generative AI (e.g., chatbots) use in cognitive, identity, or socio-emotional development; digital communication and its role in belonging and friendship processes; social media influences on body image, self-concept, or well-being; cross-cultural differences in youth’s digital practices; co-presence and ESM approaches to everyday digital experiences; longitudinal studies of online risks and resilience; and the design or evaluation of socially informed, developmentally grounded interventions that support positive and meaningful digital participation.
Weblink for further information:
https://publizistik.univie.ac.at/en/department/staff/jolien-trekels
https://jolientrekels.com/
Email: jolien.trekels(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The Environmental Politics Research Group (EPRG) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna conducts sound, excellent, reflexive, relevant and internationally visible research spanning different actors, sites and processes of global environmental agreement-making. Our research strives to be creative, innovative and impactful within and beyond academia. We have a strong focus on empirical research, combining different qualitative and quantitative methods such as event ethnography, social network analysis, surveys, interviews, bibliometrics, oral histories, and text-mining. We approach global environmental politics as unfolding through practices, and social relations. We collect data in, and contributed to the understanding of several international agreements and negotiations such as the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Weblink for further information: https://envpol.univie.ac.at/
Email: alice.vadrot(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
visual anthropology, media anthropology, urban anthropology
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
research themes related to mobility in everyday life, such as urban cycling
Weblink for further information: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/professorinnen/verstappen-sanderien/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I would look forward to supervising topics in the areas of political behavior and party competition. My current research interests are largely related to ideological and affective polarization, political identities, group appeals and democratic support. My past work also focused on models of party competition and communication as well as political emotions and political representation.
Methodologically, I supervise work that uses survey-based and experimental data as well as data based on political texts and expert surveys. I would also be happy to supervise projects that take a mixed methods approach that incorporates focus groups or qualitative interviews.
In terms of geographic area, my main expertise is on Europe, especially the UK, Germany and Austria, but I have also done work on Spain, the Netherlands and Latin America, as well as using large cross-national surveys.
Weblink for further information: www.wagnermarkus.net
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses on public spheres, social movements and political communication in times of digitalization, datafication, and artificial intelligence. I study how social issues and social movements emerge on social media and how they are debated. Methodologically, I use computational modeling and simulation as well as empirical methods such as (automated) content analysis, network analysis, and surveys. I'm also very open to mixed-methods approaches.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Potential doctoral projects could include, but are not limited to:
- public communication dynamics in the age of generative and agentic AI
- social movements and countermovements in digital spheres
- platform architectures and how they shape public discourses
- algorithmic biases and algorithmic literacy
- emergence of trending topics and social issues on algorithmic social media
- visual themes and narratives on multi-modal platforms
- emergence and measurement of polarization in online social networks
- spatial patterns and geographies of communication
- local and translocal public spheres
Weblink for further information: https://compcommlab.univie.ac.at/team/annie-waldherr/
Email: annie.waldherr(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
PhD candidates with a research interest in the role of gender in digital communication or youth media studies, particularly with regard to questions of media use and effects and with a strong social science perspective, are eligible for supervision.
Weblink for further information: https://polcom.univie.ac.at/team/claudia-wilhelm/
Email: claudia.wilhelm(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Democratic theory, history of political thought (esp. 19th, 20th and 21th century), political ideologies, threats to democracy
Weblink for further information: https://politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/wolkenstein/
Email: fabio.wolkenstein(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Political representation at the citizen and the elite level
- European Union politics and domestic contestation of the EU
- Populist ideology and populist attitudes
- Quantitative and mixed methods research designs (esp. using surveys, focus groups, quantitative text analysis, AI-based content analysis)
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
- Analyzing politics between member state governments in the Council of the European Union through the Council's public deliberations
- Understanding public opinion on the European Union in times of new geopolitical challenges (e.g. Russian war on Ukraine, turmoil in transatlantic relationship)
- Researching what citizens want from political representation
Weblink for further information: www.wratil.eu
Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion (VDTR)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Appel´s research areas are Hegel and German Idealism, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of the Bible, Eschatology and Philosophy of history. His thought aims at a disclosure of the meaning of history in a contemporary societal context. One of his achievements is the reconstruction of Hegelian philosophy under the consideration of postmodern (Derrida, Deleuze, Agamben) and phenomenological (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty) critiques and readings. Appel tries to put forth an innovative reading of Hegel that is sensitive to alterity and finitude. Against this backdrop Appel discloses the relevance of Hegelian categories for contemporary discourses on philosophy of religion, society and political theology. He has engaged in developing a theological theory of time and history, not least in dialogue with the natural sciences. Another focus of his work is the philosophical interpretation of biblical texts and demonstrating the fruitfulness of biblical categories for philosophical thinking today.
Weblink for further information: www.kurt-appel.at
Email: kurt.appel(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I supervise dissertation projects that explore questions related to the Jewish literary and cultural history of the rabbinic period (70–1040 CE). | Ich betreue Dissertationsprojekte, die Fragestellungen zur jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte der rabbinischen Periode untersuchen (70–1040 n. Z.).
Weblink for further information: https://judaistik.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/institutsmitarbeiterinnen/constanza-cordoni/
Email: constanza.cordoni(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Systematic Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Theology of Religions, German Idealism (Schelling), Paul Tillich; History of Modern Protestant Theology
Weblink for further information: https://etfst.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/christian-danz/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Religion and Aesthetics
Religion and Arts
Philosophy of Religion
Religion and Poetry
Friedrich Hölderlin
Weblink for further information: https://jakob-helmut-deibl.at/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
– Religious Rituals in Film/Movies
– Anglican Liturgical Patrimony (in the Catholic Church)
– Ordination Rites (in different liturgical traditions)
– Bilingual Interim Missals after the Second Vatican Council (1964–1969)
– Ritual Studies in the Context of a Modified “Comparative Liturgiology”
– Liturgy and Ecumenism
– Liturgies of the Oriental Churches
– Liturgy and Hygiene
– Prayer for the Deceased
– Coronation Rites/Rituals
...
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Further possible research themes or topics of dissertations:
+ The Bilingual French Interim Missal
+ The Bilingual Portuguese Interim Missal
+ Funerals in Film/Movies
+ The Portrait of Priests in Film/Movies from a Liturgical Perspective
+ The History of Liturgical Studies in Austria
+ Commemoration of the Dead in Liturgical Practices (ecumenical)
+ The Liturgy of the Hours in the Personal Ordinariates (for former Anglicans)
+ Liturgical Celebrations during Pandemics – Challenges and Perspectives
+ Liturgical Culture during the Plague in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
+ Liturgical Services with Disabled Persons
and many more
Weblink for further information: https://lit-ktf.univie.ac.at/forschung/forschungsprojekte
Email: hans-juergen.feulner(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Basic questions of Christian social ethics, ethics of public communication (media ethics), technology ethics/digital ethics, political ethics/practical social philosophy, philosophical pragmatism, social empiricism and ethics, normative aspects of social theory
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
I am particularly looking for doctoral candidates in the field of society and AI, especially those interested in how AI transformations affect issues of justice.
Weblink for further information: https://se-ktf.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/alexander-filipovic/
Email: alexander.filipovic(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Hebrew Bible: Psalms; Lamentations; anthropology; gender studies; metaphor theory; Jewish and Christian dialogue
Weblink for further information: https://etfat.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/marianne-grohmann/#c162780
Email: marianne.grohmann(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Philosophy of Religion, Ontological Arguments, Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, Philosophy and Hebrew Bible
Weblink for further information: https://members.phl.univie.ac.at/heinrich-ramharter/
Email: esther.heinrich(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Islamic Studies, Islamic Law, Cultural and Intellectual History of Islam, History of Ideas
Weblink for further information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/details-staff/user/ivanyik80/inum/1073/backpid/86978/
Email: katharina.ivanyi(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research focuses on Qurʾānic studies, including Qurʾānic sciences and exegesis and Islamic textual studies. I work on Isrāʾīliyyāt traditions, the environmental and intertextual contexts of the Qurʾān, and the study of Islamic primary sources through philological and historical-critical methods. Further areas of interest include the early history of Islam, the sources and formation of Islamic traditions, the cultural and religious landscape of the Arabian Peninsula, and the historical development of Islamic mysticism. My approach is grounded in comparative hermeneutics and the critical study of Islamic texts in their Late Antique context.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible doctoral topics may include comparative studies of the Qurʾān and Syriac Christian literature; Christian–Muslim encounters in Late Antiquity; intertextual relations between Qurʾānic discourse and Syriac patristic traditions; Qurʾānic archaeology and the material culture of early Islam; the reception of biblical and para-biblical material in early Islamic literature; and comparative hermeneutical approaches to Qurʾānic and Eastern Christian texts.
Weblink for further information: https://iits.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/professorships/tugrul-kurt/
Email: tugrul.kurt(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research interests are religious diversity and changing religious landscapes, youth religiosity, digital religion, feminist perspectives on religion, political aspects of Christianity and Islam in Europe, the intersections of migration and religion, empirical methods in studying religion;
As a supervisor, I am aim to accompany you in developing your ideas, supporting you in making smart research desicions and offer responsivity and availability.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects:
- Politicization of religion in schools
- Religion and secularity in parliament
- Religious communities in transformation
- Youth religiosity in digital times
- (your own ideas are welcome!)
Weblink for further information: astrid-mattes.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Orthodox Theology (Dogmatics, Systematic Theology, Ecumenical Theology)
Eastern Christian Studies (History of Theology, Theology of Spirituality)
Actual research interests: Contemporary Christological Discourses; Ecclesiology; Theological Discourses in Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue; Diaspora-Theology; Theology of Eastern Christian Spirituality in Modern Contexts
Weblink for further information: https://okk-ktf.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/#c53823
Email: ioan.moga(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
My research fields are the History of Moral Theology (especially from the Middle Ages to modern times), Fundamental Questions of Theological Ethics, Bioethics (especially beginning of life, xenotransplantation, and other fields related to the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine), Ecological ethics, and intercultural ethics.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
The research field "Theological Ethics" contributes to the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine, to Central European networks on bioethics as well as to European and international networks in Theological Ethics. Main supervision languages are German and English, but other languages (French, Italian, Spanish) are welcome.
Weblink for further information: https://st-theoethik-ktf.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/mueller-sigrid/
Email: sigrid.mueller(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Theology and history of the Eastern Churches (Orthodox Churches and Eastern Catholic Churches, also Oriental Orthodox Churches). Focus areas: Modern history of the Eastern Churches in Central/Eastern Europe and in the Habsburg Empire (18th-20th c.); religion and churches in Ukraine (including the current context of Russia's war against Ukraine and legal issues); identity, tradition, and reception in the Eastern Churches; Ecumenism; Eastern church law (especially of the Eastern Catholic Churches); liturgy and art (iconography) of Byzantine churches.
Weblink for further information: https://okk-ktf.univie.ac.at/
Email: thomas.nemeth(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
New Testament, Early Christianity, Second Temple Judaism, Social History of the Greco-Roman World
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects:
Epigraphical Commentary on the New Testament (on one of the smaller Pauline [Deutero-Pauline] epistels or part of a bigger one)
Any topic connected to Paul's letter Romans is welcomed.
Topics on aspects of the life of Greco-Roman associations.
Weblink for further information: https://etfnt.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/markus-oehler/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
History of Christianity/Church history, especially in late antiquity/early Byzantine era and early modern times.
Special focus:
Regarding antiquity/the early Byzantine era, I will gladly supervise projects touching upon: Christianisation, social history, hagiography, martyr cults, epigraphy, archaeology. The preferred area is the eastern Mediterranean region, esp. Asia Minor.
Regarding early modern times, I am happy to supervise projects in university history, practical aspects of studying, the education of pastors; centered on middle Europe. Projects on aspects of Austrian protestantism, esp. 16th century, will be possible, too.
Projects relating to digital humanities are also very welcome.
Weblink for further information: https://etfkg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/philipp-pilhofer/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Ritual studies, developing new rituals, spiritual care, preaching; Speaking of "God" in modern society; helping institutions (like caritas) and theories of help,
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Analyzing new rituals in the context of loss and burying (especially with focus on religious practices).
Comparison of preaching in an interreligous study, especially focussing on Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Weblink for further information: https://pt-ktf.univie.ac.at/team/personen/pock/
Email: johann.pock(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
I particularly welcome applications for Ph.D. research linked to the areas of my immediate specialisation.
These include more specifically
- East Asian religions;
- new religious movements;
- millenarianism;
- esotericism/alternative religions;
- religion in Austria; and
- Asian diasporic, alternative, and/or new religion in the West. I am also happy to consider projects pertaining to the wider areas of comparative religion as well as the history of religions.
Weblink for further information: https://rw-ktf.univie.ac.at/en/lukas-pokorny/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Interreligious Dialogue (Christianity, Judaism, Islam); Religion and Migration; Religion and Values
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects:
Combatting Antisemitism after 7th October 2023; Empirical Research on interreligious dialogue Projects; Renewing Catholic Church through Christian-Jewish Dialogue; Spiritual Dimension of interreligious Dialogue; Antisemitism and (anti-Muslim Racism in the context of Migration.
Thematically focused doctoral position at the Department for Practical Theology, Faculty of Catholic Theology
Within the framework of this pooled call, I offer an additional thematically defined pre-doctoral position in the field of practical interreligious dialogue, with a particular focus on:
- Christian–Jewish dialogue,
- Christian–Islamic dialogue, or
- Christian–Jewish–Islamic dialogue.
Applicants interested in this position should:
- hold a degree in Catholic Theology or be willing to focus on Practical Theology within their doctoral studies,
- demonstrate interest in interdisciplinary approaches (social sciences, cultural studies), and
- be willing to engage actively in the research, teaching, and organisational activities of the Department of Practical Theology (according to collective agreement regulations).
Applicants should submit a research proposal that clearly situates their proposed dissertation within this thematic field.
Alongside this thematically focused position, I remain open to supervising dissertation projects across the broader fields described above.
Weblink for further information: https://pt-ktf.univie.ac.at/team/personen/polak/
Email: regina.polak(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Ancient religions, early Christianity, Greek and Roman religions, ancient Mediterranean religions, method and theory in the study of religion, anthropology of religion, theories of religion, atheism, myth, mythology, myth theories
Weblink for further information: https://rw-ktf.univie.ac.at
Email: nickolas.roubekas(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Questions of religious education, upbringing, and socialization; perspectives of children, adolescents, and adults on religion, faith, and religious educational processes; sexuality and religion from a religious-pedagogical perspective; ambiguity from a religious-pedagogical perspective; non-denominationality/non-religiosity from a religious-pedagogical perspective.
Weblink for further information: https://etfrp.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/susanne-schwarz/
Email: susanne.schwarz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Islamic Theology in Contemporary European Society
Theological Religious Pluralism
Interreligious Dialogue from a Muslim Perspective
Empirical Islamic Theology
Islamic Education in Contemporary Society
Weblink for further information: https://iits.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/professuren/zekirija-sejdini/
Email: zekirija.sejdini(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Old Testament, esp. Psalms, Daniel, feminist exegesis, gender in O.T.,
patristic reception of O.T., patristic exegesis and midrash
Weblink for further information: https://bibelwissenschaft-ktf.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiter/siquans-agnethe/
Email: agnethe.siquans(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
New Testament, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Bible, Historical Jesus, Apostel Paul
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects:
Early Jesus Movement, Early Christianity, Parting of the Ways between Jews and Christians, Pauline Theology, Historical Jesus, Early Judaism and Beginning Christianity
Weblink for further information: https://bibelwissenschaft-ktf.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiter/tiwald-markus/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Dogmatic theology, Christology, Ecclesiology, Eucharistic theology and sacramental theology, dialogue with Judaism, theodicy, literature and religion
Weblink for further information: https://dg-ktf.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/jan-heiner-tueck/
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
- Alevi Studies (Alevi Theology, Alevi History, Bektashi Sufism, Bektashi History, etc.)
- Islamic Studies
- Sufism
- Shiism
- Heterodoxy/Heresy in Islam
- Islamic History
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Ottoman History
- Iranian History (with a focus on the Safavid period)
- Oral Tradition, Collective Memory (projects related to Religious/Islamic Studies)
Weblink for further information: https://univie.academia.edu/RizaYILDIRIM
Vienna International School in Earth and Space Sciences (VISESS)
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
We are interested in how Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems represent, understand, and reshape geographic space and places. Our work studies how (geospatial) foundation models conceptualize places, how spatial and social biases emerge in their outputs, and how these model outputs further influence our everyday perception of the world. More concretely, we have worked on applying theories from cognitive science, e.g., prototype theory, as well as theories from knowledge representation, such as knowledge engineering, to uncover how generative AI systems form strong prototypes (called defaults) and how these may distort the representation of places and geography more broadly, e.g., in the context of urban studies or conflict studies. Aside from work on bias, we are also studying the alignment of AI systems, from a pluralistic and geographic perspective. Overall, we are interested in combining fields such as human geography and digital humanities with geographic AI (GeoAI).
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Possible doctoral projects may examine how (Geo)AI systems represent, reason about, and construct geographic space and how generative technologies (re)shape our social, cultural, and political understandings of places. For example, research questions may ask how different types of data and model biases distort public participatory planning or how generative AI influences (local) tourism by reinforcing certain narratives at the cost of others. From a theoretical perspective, we are especially interested in how to make general AI methods and models more spatially-explicit, how to improve their spatial representations and spatial (e.g., topological) reasoning skills. We are also interested in doctoral projects that combine classical knowledge engineering, such as knowledge graphs (linked data) and ontology engineering used in geography and the digital humanities, with neural approaches such as spatial representation learning in GeoAI.
Weblink for further information: https://geographie.univie.ac.at/arbeitsgruppen/kartographie-und-geoinformation/
Email: krzysztof.janowicz(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
The spectrum of our work ranges from “prediction” to “protection” on the topics of (a) location privacy and (b) spatial crime analysis.
We examine the risk of re-identification & inference attacks, propose geoprivacy-by-design guidelines, and develop privacy protection methods.
In crime analysis, our focus is on spatial crime forecasting and also understanding how crime and safety are perceived in the urban environment.
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
1) Spatially Conscious Machine Learning
We are interested in engineering spatial features into ML models. These features represent spatial information extracted via various spatial statistical techniques that cannot be inherently captured by traditional ML models.
2) Spatial Crime Forecasting
Our focus is on short-term predictions in micro-geographies. In particular, we are investigating how open or publicly available sources of geo-information can help capture ambient population models that can either represent targets (i.e., crime victims) or guardians (i.e., mitigators of crime).
3) Location Privacy Protection Applications directed to Data Subjects
We are working on protection mechanisms that are designed to be used by the data subjects. Thus, increasing their awareness of location privacy as well as returning their control over the data they produce. This is in contrast to the mainstream research that offers solutions that can be “possibly” used by the data controllers.
Weblink for further information: https://geographie.univie.ac.at/arbeitsgruppen/digital-geography/
Email: ourania.kounadi(at)univie.ac.at
Research Interests and Supervision Areas
Our inter- and transdisciplinary research at the Urban Sustainability Living Lab of the Urban Studies Working Group at the Department of Geography and Regional Research seeks to understand and foster Urban Sustainability Transformations.
To do so, it focuses on:
- Participation and social innovation in/through Urban Labs (Urban Labs are considered as social and physical spaces for co-producing knowledge and experimenting innovative solutions for urban societal challenges with multiple urban actors)
- Methodologies for collaborative learning and experimentation (transdisciplinary and comparative approaches, skills and methods)
- Intersections of the climate emergency, biodiversity loss and urban vulnerability (thematic core fields)
- Post-industrial urban development with a focus on small cities (thematic and geographical focus)
- Localisation of, and the role of urban actors in, global sustainability agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals (thematic focus)
Possible research themes or topics for doctoral projects
Doctoral candidates are free to choose their own topics, and I welcome all proposals that fall within our broader research interests. However, I am currently strengthening our group’s expertise in the following themes, which means that aligned proposals are especially likely to encounter collaborations within our Working Group:
- Urban Labs across diverse geographies (emergence and functioning in different institutional settings, societal impacts, trans-local collaborations, etc.)
- New participatory (methodological) approaches for Urban Sustainability Transformations (including methodologies to co-produce knowledge across natural and social sciences, and with diverse societal actors)
- Intersectional approaches to understand and reduce urban vulnerabilities related to the climate and biodiversity emergency
- Social-environmental topics to link theory and practice of post-industrial Urban Sustainability Transformations
- Cities and urban actors in the “beyond-2030” global sustainability agenda(s)
In alignment with current research, we particularly welcome proposals focusing on cities in Europe, Latin America, and post-Soviet countries.
Weblink for further information: https://urbanlab.univie.ac.at/en/
Email: kerstin.krellenberg(at)univie.ac.at