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