Staff Members and their main Research Areas
You can find a selection of the Department’s academic staff (professors, predoctoral and postdoctoral staff of the Department as well as third-party funded staff) and their main research areas below. There is a link on the last name that will redirect you to contact information and further content. For a full list of all members of the Department, please see our staff register.
| Name | Main research areas |
|---|---|
| Atzmüller, Christiane | experimental vignette studies (factorial survey), quantitative methods, civil courage, youth violence |
| Ansari, Sina | social inequality, migration, housing (trajectories) |
| Berghammer, Caroline | demography, family, religion |
| Boczy, Tatjana | urban and regional research, political sociology, sociological theory, social change and transformations |
| Bordone, Valeria | ageing, intergenerational relationships, grandparent(hood) |
| Breckner, Roswitha | visual sociology / image analysis, biographical research, migration |
| Cefalo, Ruggero | comparative social policy, school-to-work transitions, youth |
| Coufal, Lena | habitation, IBA Research Lab |
| Dafert, Vera | families, youth, family transitions, qualitative social research |
| De Frantz, Monika | political sociology, urban sociology, sociology of space, sociology of culture, social movements, public sphere, social sustainability, globalisation |
| Décieux, Fabienne | care and gender studies, childhood, critical analysis of society, sociology of work |
| Dirnberger, Petra | family sociology, demografic processes, social inequality, methods of social research |
| Dowling, Emma | social change, political economy, gender and social reproduction, emotional and affective labor, social movements, globalisation |
| Draxl, Anna-Katharina | migration and language, education |
| Erben-Harter, Sabine | family, childhood, single parents, qualitative social research |
| Flecker, Jörg | sociology of work and employment, work organisation and relationships, labour market, transnationalisation, international comparative research |
| Flicker, Eva | visual sociology/ film-/ media sociology, gender, organisation/ group dynamics |
| Friesenecker, Michael | urban studies, spatial and social inequalities, social area analysis |
| Gallistl, Vera | ageing, education |
| Herr, Benjamin | reproduction work and platform-based labor |
| Holzinger, Clara | migration, education, sociolinguistics |
| Kazepov, Yuri | international urban sociology, comparative social policy |
| Knopp, Philipp | policing, protest and social movements, surveillance studies |
| Kogler, Raphaela | childhood, qualitative social research, participatory research, appropriation of space, social space |
| Kolland, Franz | ageing, education, life styles, sociology of developing countries |
| Krucsay, Brita | sociology of culture, power structure and orders of knowledge, inconsistencies and ambivalences, transgressive research |
| Lebedinsky, Lara | human capital, labour economics and family economics |
| Malschinger, Paul | labour market, education, transition research, gender inequalities |
| Marent, Johannes | media sociology, biographical research, knowledge and science communication |
| Mauerer, Germinde | family, masculinity, qualitative social research, gender and social inequality, health |
| Mayer, Elisabeth | bibliografical research, visual sociology, image analysis, qualitative research |
| Mijic, Ana | sociology of knowledge and culture, sociology of identity and ethnicity, sociological theory, objective hermeneutics |
| Mittlmeier, Annalena | social robotics, sociology of knowledge, sociology of culture, system theory, interpretative social research |
| Mocca, Elisabetta | urban politics, transnational municipal cooperation, post-growth politics |
| Mühlböck, Monika | labour market policy, youth unemployment, social inequality, representation, public policy, European integration, quantitative methods |
| Neuhauser, Johanna | labour migration, gender and intersectionality, global inequality/north-south-conditions, Latin America |
| Parisot, Viktoria | ageing and education, care |
| Parzer, Michael | culture, social inequality, migration, interpretative social research |
| Pfadenhauer, Michaela | sociology of knowledge, social constructivism, mediatisation, social robotics |
| Pospech-Durnová, Anna | political sociology, sociology of emotions, sociology of culture, public politics, sociological theories of liberal democracy, feminist theories, women's health and sociology of the body, and interpretive social research |
| Quinz, Hannah | sociology of labor, social inequality, inequality of wealth distribution, efficiency and recognition, social research |
| Reininger, Jana | habitation, migration, flight and asylum, gender |
| Reinprecht, Christoph | migration, urban life contexts, political sociology, social inequality |
| Riederer, Bernhard | family (and personal relationships), quality of life, social inequality |
| Riffer, Florian | social inequality, transnatoinalism, ideologies of inequality,far-right politics, critical men's studies, ageing, social inequality, security |
| Schadauer, Andreas | social inequality, research on discrimination and racism, social studies of science, social studies of social sciences, empirical social research |
| Scheibelhofer, Elisabeth | interpretative social research, migration, mobility, transnational social spaces |
| Schlembach, Christopher | history of sociology, social theory, sociology of deviance, sociology of organizations, safety culture |
| Schmidt, Eva-Maria | family and gender, parenthood, paid and unpaid labor, childhood and youth |
| Schörpf, Philip | sociology of work, virtual work, platform work, outsourcing, creative industries |
| Siegert, Christina | Poverty, employment, income inequality, feminist perspectives, quantitative methods |
| Steiber, Nadia | social stratification and social inequality, education and social mobility, employment, family, ageing, well-being/health, quantitative methods |
| Trimarchi, Alessandra | demography, family, intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status, social stratification and inequalities |
| Urbaniak, Anna Pawlina | ageing, life-course transitions, social exclusion, qualitative social research |
| Valls Casas, Ona | sociology of education, educational transitions, educational inequalities, youth, panel and longitudinal analysis |
| Vogl, Susanne | methods of social research, family sociology, sociology of deviant behaviour, childhood sociology |
| Vogtenhuber, Stefan | social stratification, education, skill formation and training, labour market, employment, quantitative methods, data visualization |
| Wolf, Margarita | interpretative social research, visual sociology, biographic research, national socialism and afterlife of concentration camps in Austria and Germany |
| Zartler, Ulrike | family, childhood, divorce, qualitative social research |
| Zuccato-Doutlik, Marlies | family, parenting, gender, divorce, qualitative methods in social research |