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Univ.-Doz. Dr. Katharina Miko-Schefzig
Vice-Head of the research institute FORM (affiliated)
Assigned researchers

Assistant Prof. Jürgen Braunstein, PhD
Geofinance Unit | Institute for Spacial and Social-Ecological Transformation (ISSET)
Sustainability Program | Department for Continuing Education | Harvard University
His research interests include the geopolitics of energy transitions, and increasingly how these dynamics influence patterns of labor migration and climate-induced migration - as well as the financial and political challenges they pose for sending and receiving countries.

Assoc. Prof. Priv.Doz.Dr. Mihaela Dimitrova
Associate Professor at the Department of Global Trade
Her research interests focus on global work experiences, in particular the management of global employees, cross-cultural management and the proactive behavior and success of employees in international environments.

Mag.a Schifteh Dohr-Hashemi, MIM (CEMS)
University Assistant (prae doc) at the Institute for Public Management and Governance
Her focus is on healthcare management and governance of public healthcare systems at the interface with advanced technologies and the use of AI-supported systems.

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Felbermayr
Professor at the Department of Economics and Director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
His research interests include the theory and politics of international trade, climate and international trade, labor markets in open economies, international migration and European integration.

Dr. Christian Grünhaus
Scientific Director of the Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship
His research and interests focus on the financing and governance of non-profit organizations and the evaluation of organizations with a focus on social added value.

Assoc. Prof. PD Daniel Hausknost, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (IGN)
He works primarily on questions of the transformability and sustainability of modern democratic systems and the capitalist state. He studied political science and philosophy in Vienna and holds a doctorate from Keele University (UK).

PD Dr. Johannes Koll, M.A.
Senior Scientist at the Institute for Economic and Social History
Head of the University Archive
His research interests include the history of flight and (e)migration during National Socialism and the Second World War, patriotism, national identity, regionalism and nation-building as well as biographies. He studied medieval and modern history, musicology, philosophy and political science at the University of Cologne.

associate Prof. Doz. Dr. Gunther Maier
associate Professor at the Competence Center for Multi-Level Governance and Development at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Professor of Regional and Real Estate Economics at the Modul University in Vienna
His research interests include the spatial effects of computer networks, regional aspects of the restructuring of Central Europe, regional economic models and urban development.

prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Head of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Behavioural Management, member of the Competence Centre for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship
His research focuses on international personnel and corporate management, career research, recent systems theory and business administration.

Eva More-Hollerweger
Senior Researcher and Head of the NPOs & Civil Society Research Unit at the Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship
Chairwoman and board member of npoAustria!
Her work focuses on NPOs, civil society, volunteering, evaluations and strategic management.

PD Dr. Michaela Neumayr
Associate Professor at the Competence Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship and at the Institute for Nonprofit Management and Governance.
Her research focuses on civic engagement and the interactions between socio-economic inequality, philanthropy and volunteering.

Prof. Dr. Jonas Puck
Head of the Institute for International Business, Team Puck
His current research interests lie in the intersection of global strategy, finance and political science, often with an industry focus on energy and extractive industries.

ao. Prof. Dr. Ruth Simsa
Associate Professor at the Institute for Sociology and Empirical Social Research, at the Competence Centre for Nonprofit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship and at the Research Institute for Cooperation and Cooperatives
Her research focuses on sociology and economics, e.g. development and framework conditions in civil society, NPO management, impact measurement, volunteering and activism, and social movements.

Prof. Dr. Sigrid Stagl, M.S.
Academic Director of the Competence Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility, Director of the Institute for Ecological Economics and the Department of Socioeconomics, Research Associate at the Research Institute Economics of Inequality
Her research interests include sustainable work, ecological macroeconomics, integrated assessment methods and socio-economic theories of action, with an empirical focus on energy and food.

Prof. Dr.phil. Nadine Thielemann
As Professor of Intercultural Communication and Slavic Studies and Head of the Institute for Intercultural Communication, her research interests include discourses at the interface of business and politics, the construction of migrant identity and qualitative analyses of lived experiences of migration. She also focuses on the consequences of cultural and linguistic diversity as they arise through increasing individual mobility in organizations and societies.

Dr. Milda Zilinskaite
Senior Scientist at the Competence Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility
Her focus is on globalization of work, anti-corruption, intercultural management and migration research. Zilinskaite studied modern languages in the USA. She has been a guest lecturer at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Laxenburg since 2018.