ViDSS alumnae and alumni
We encourage graduates to stay in touch with the ViDSS and aim at connecting them with each other and with current members of the Doctoral School.
The ViDSS Alumn Programme is open to all graduates from the doctoral programme in Social Sciences who have been members of the ViDSS. Participation in the programme entails being named on the ViDSS website (including year of graduation, doctoral thesis title and position after graduation or current position, if available), receiving the ViDSS Newsletter and being invited to networking events organised by the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences.
If you are not yet listed here and would like to join the programme, please get in touch with us (email to eva.koessner@univie.ac.at).
Communication
| Sandra Banjac | 2021 | Role theory and the changing relationship between journalists and audiences: Towards (re-)conceptualising roles and expectations (more information and abstract) | Assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen; research fellow at the Journalism Studies Centre, University of Vienna |
| Yulia Belinskaya | 2022 | Resistance and deception in the Russian social media: The overspilling public sphere (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media and Digital Technologies, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences |
| Ming Manuel Boyer | 2021 | Processing the news in times of identity politics: Group identities in motivated reasoning and opinion formation (more information) | Research Associate at the Department of Communication, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Jana Laura Egelhofer | 2021 | I don’t like it – let’s call it ‘fake’ – The content and consequences of the fake news debate (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Munich Science Communication Lab, LMU München |
| Lisa Esti Puji Hartanti | 2023 | Social media influencers in Indonesia: A critical case study on the status and development of media literacy (more information and abstract) | Assistant professor at the Department of Communication, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia |
| Anita Gottlob | 2021 | Risk, immigration and the media: A comparative analysis of immigration frames in the media and their effect on immigration attitudes through the lense of risk (more information) | Junior health expert in the Department of International Affairs, Policy, Evaluation and Digitalisation, and scientific assistant to the executive director at the Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH) |
| Hannah Greber | 2024 | Immersive journalism – the future of the news? (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna |
| Tobias Heidenreich | 2021 | Mapping political migration discourses on social media in Europe (more information and abstract) | Research fellow of the research unit Global Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| Melanie Hirsch | 2024 | Political and issue fit of targeted political advertising on social media: Perceptions, evaluations, and behavioral intentions (more information and abstract) | Senior Scientist at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna |
| Ruta Kaskeleviciute | 2024 | Perceptions and effects of mediated terrorism: An intergroup approach (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna |
| Bruktawit Ejigu Kassa | 2022 | An analysis of gender in media policy in Africa: The case of Ethiopian media policy (more information and abstract) | |
| Fabienne Lind | 2021 | Multilingual automated content analysis for comparative communication research (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna |
| Phoebe Maares | 2022 | Investigating techno-economic influences on the journalistic field: Atypical journalistic work in Europe (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher in the FWF Project “From Periphery to Core”, University of Vienna |
| Manina Mestas | 2022 | Suicide reporting in Austria in the nineteenth century and the Belle Époque: Investigating the Werther effect (more information and abstract) | Researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna |
| Sophie Minihold | 2024 | Digital campaign competence: The role of citizens in data-driven election campaigns (more information and abstract) | Staff member at the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection |
| Andreas Nanz | 2022 | Incidental exposure in the online world: Antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Digital Governance, Technical University of Munich |
| Ariadne Neureiter | 2023 | Misleading compensation claims in advertising: Perceptions and effects of greenwashing (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher in the Advertising and Media Psychology Research Group (AdMe), University of Vienna |
| Alina Nikolaou | 2023 | How good is “VR for Good”? Examining Virtual Reality as a medium for social attitude and behavior change (more information) | |
| Stefan F. Ossmann | 2022 | Loving, living, acting, thinking and feeling poly. Polyamory in self-perception and media representation in the German-speaking region 2007–2017 (more information, abstract and full text) | Lecturer at the University of Vienna |
| Samira Rahimi Mavi | 2024 | Communication about controversial issues: The case of offering Halal products and services in non-Muslim countries (more information and abstract) | |
| Michael Reicho | 2024 | Counteracting fake news (COFANE): Rethinking digital competences for the future (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz |
| Franz Reiter | 2024 | Dirty campaigning in electoral communication: Perceptions and effects (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media, Society and Communication, University of Innsbruck |
| Manuel Rotter | 2024 | Von Mediensozialisation zu mediatisierter Sozialisation: Zur Weiterentwicklung eines wissenschaftlichen Begriffs im Kontext der Sozialisation in mediatisierten kindlichen und jugendlichen (more information, abstract and full text) | Teaching consultant at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna |
| Annika Schwabe | 2023 | Print to screen – the consequences of reading narrative texts digitally (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher in the FWF Project “Listening to Literature”, University of Vienna |
| Ines Spielvogel | 2022 | Aufklärungshinweise für Produktplatzierungen in Kinderfilmen: Inhalte, Wirkungen und die elterliche Perspektive (more information) | Academic expert and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication, Vienna |
| Anja Stevic | 2021 | Calling or Scrolling? The opportunities and risks of smartphone use for individuals’ well-being (more information) | Postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Communication, Stanford University |
| Julia Stranzl | 2024 | Appreciation during the COVID-19 pandemic – an internal crisis communication perspective (more information) | Postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Communication Management and Media, Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| Marlis Stubenvoll | 2023 | Why misperceptions persist: The role of resistance to evidence in political news (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Media and Communications, University of Klagenfurt |
| Marina Thomas | 2023 | Swipe culture: The psychological effects of swiping on dating applications (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre Transitional Psychiatry, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences |
| Teresa Weikmann | 2024 | Getting real with fakes: Characteristics and consequences of ‘deepfakes’ in democracies | |
| Daniel Wolfgruber | 2023 | The communicative constitution of the moral organisation: Exploring the multiple roles of organisational communication in the context of ethics, diversity, and inclusion (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Management, HEC Montréal |
Demography
| Brian Matthew Buh | 2024 | Having children in low fertility contexts: Competing and complementary life domains | |
| Claudia Reiter | 2022 | The demography of skills-adjusted education indicators: A global perspective (more information, abstract and full text) | Researcher at the Department of Demography, University of Vienna, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) |
| Saroja Adhikari | 2024 | Understanding differentials by level of education in fertility intentions and behaviors in lower- and middle-income countries (more information, abstract and full text) | Research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
Nursing science
| Jasmin Eppel-Meichlinger | 2023 | Theorising uncertainty in chronic illness – refinement of Mishel’s reconceptualised uncertainty in illness theory (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Division of Nursing Science, Department of General Health Studies, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences |
| Ana Raquel Valente dos Santos Cartaxo | 2024 | The MISSCARE-Austria study: Uncovering missed nursing care in general units in Austrian hospitals, a quantitative cross-sectional study followed by a comprehensive data analysis on the reasons for missed nursing care moving from a positivist to a complexity theory-related approach (more information and abstract) | Health expert at the Department of Health Professions and Long-Term Care, Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH), lecturer at the University of Vienna |
Political science
| Clemens Binder | 2023 | The politics of research and development in border security: Exploring imaginaries, structures and practices of technology design in bordering the EU (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen |
| Lukas Egger | 2022 | Die Debatte über den Ursprung der rassistischen Sklaverei in Virginia aus der Perspektive von politischem Marxismus und materialistischer Staatstheorie (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz |
| Magdalena Eitenberger | 2023 | Technologising care in chronic illness: A policy analysis of health technologies for Type 1 Diabetes in Austria (more information) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (personal website) |
| Myriam Gaitsch | 2022 | Die Gouvernementalität öffentlicher Dienstleistungsarbeit: Eine affekt- und machtkritische Ethnographie von Arbeitsvermittlungspraxen in der Schweiz (more information and abstract) | Researcher at FORBA – Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt |
| Judith Götz | 2024 | Geschlechterpolitiken der „Identitären“: Ein Beitrag zur politischen Bildung gegen Rechtsextremismus (more information and abstract) | Researcher at the Department of Education, University of Innsbruck |
| Lena Huber | 2023 | The role of social groups in political communication and public opinion (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim |
| Ruth Kager | 2024 | Öffentlichkeit und Affizierung: Glück, Liebe und die Legitimierung von Macht in Hannah Arendts politischem Denken (more information and abstract) | Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna |
| Matthias Kaltenegger | 2023 | Leaders under pressure: Drivers and consequences of intra-party power dynamics (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government, University of Vienna |
| Mathias Krams | 2024 | Die Metagovernance urbaner Mobilität auf Ebene der EU (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Arne Langlet | 2024 | Navigating high seas governance: Understanding the marine biodiversity regime complex surrounding the BBNJ negotiations (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna |
| Valerie Lenikus | 2024 | Agrarian extractivism, its power relations and socialecological conflicts: A political ecology analysis based on the case of the shrimp sector in coastal Ecuador (more information and abstract) | Senior scientist at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna |
| Sofia Marini | 2024 | Party policy shifts: Causes, consequences, and perceptions (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University |
| Alessandra Santoianni | 2024 | Teachers’ beliefs about civic and citizenship education in Italian high schools (more information and abstract) | Researcher at Demokratiezentrum Wien |
| Manuel Schwaninger | 2021 | Soziale Verteilungspräferenzen in Koalitionsverhandlungen (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg |
| Helena Segarra | 2023 | Refugee reception as a site of bordering. Governing the inclusion and exclusion of refugees in European member states (more information) | Postdoctoral researcher and co-project lead, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna |
| Manuela Stein da Silva Barbosa | 2024 | Who cares? Ein staatstheoretischer Zugang zur Reproduktion intersektioneller Ungleichheiten in der Care-Arbeit in Brasilien (more information, abstract and full text) | |
| Josefa Maria Stiegler | 2023 | Em nome do estado: A feminist, decolonial analysis of everyday (in)securities in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) |
| Wanda Spahl | 2024 | From medical care to citizenship: Mapping the healthcare systems’ function of inclusion for refugees in Vienna, Austria (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Division Biomedical and Public Health Ethics, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences |
| Leda Sutlovic | 2021 | Interpreting post-socialist gendered transformations through feminist institutionalism, ideas and knowledge: The case of Croatia (1970–2010) (more information and abstract) | |
| Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki | 2024 | Science-policy interfaces for ocean protection: The case of the international negotiations for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) (more information, abstract and full text) | Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security, University of Wollongong |
Science and technology studies
| Anna Pichelstorfer | 2023 | (Re)producing public issues: The co-production of assisted reproduction and democracy in Austria (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna |
| Michaela Scheriau | 2023 | Modes of justification in bioethical opinion papers: How scientific societies try to govern the moral fabric of human reproduction (more information, abstract and full text) | Researcher at the Vienna Centre for Societal Security (VICESSE) |
| Pouya Sepehr | 2024 | Urban (dis)articulations in assembling Smart City Vienna: Towards a response-able urban innovation (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC), University of Siena |
| Elena Šimukovič | 2023 | Of hopes, villains, and Trojan horses: Open Access academic publishing and its battlefields (more information, abstract and full text) | Head of Research and Infrastructure at the University Library, Zurich University of Applied Sciences |
| Paul Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg | 2022 | Imagining, enacting, and justifying future borders: The eu-LISA Agency and the digital transformation of the border regime (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral scientist at Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna |
Social and cultural anthropology
| Ria-Maria Adams | 2024 | The quest for a good life: Young people’s wellbeing in northern Finland (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Project “InfraNorth”, University of Vienna |
| Bernhard Braun | 2021 | Moskaus (in)existente Mittelschicht: Eine Ethnographie (more information and abstract, full text/open access e-book) | Program director at CareerDesign@TUM, Technical University of Munich |
| Ilona Grabmaier | 2023 | Daheimgeblieben. Re-/Konfigurationen von Sorge in der ländlichen Ukraine (more information and abstract) | Researcher at Die Johanniter and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
| Suzana Jovicic | 2022 | Scrolling, swiping, snapping – the playful in-between: Digital practices and hanging out, doing nothing and wasting time among Viennese youths (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
| Liudmila Martynenko | 2023 | Keepers of culture: The Ossetian community in Moscow (more information and abstract) | |
| Alexandra Meyer | 2023 | Arctic change: An ethnography of entangled climatic and societal transformations in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
| Olga Povoroznyuk | 2022 | Soviet infrastructure in the post-Soviet era? Building a railroad and identity along the Baikal-Amur mainline in East Siberia (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
Sociology
| Faime Alpagu | 2021 | Migration narratives juxtaposed: A sociological analysis of biographies, photos and (audio) letters of “guest workers” from Turkey living in Austria (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna |
| Angelina Brotherhood | 2021 | Socio-spatial aspects of substance use and abstinence: “Interpreted space” as a concept for environmental prevention (more information, abstract and full text) | Health expert at the Addiction Competence Centre, Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH) |
| Ahn Byeongsun | 2022 | Living in a “just” city: Citizen participation and social interaction in Vienna’s regenerating neighborhoods (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the research platform The Challenge of Urban Futures, University of Vienna |
| Kristina Eisfeld | 2023 | Revealing the hidden link: Energy poverty and self-restricted energy use in Austria (more information, abstract and full text) | Project coordinator at the Energy Poverty Advisory Hub, European Commission |
| Clara Holzinger | 2023 | „Wir können nicht alle Sprachen der Welt sprechen”: Eine Studie zu Street-level Bureaucracy im Kontext migrationsbedingter Heterolingualität am Beispiel des österreichischen Arbeitsmarktservice (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna |
| Fabian Kalleitner | 2023 | Explaining preferences for redistributive taxation (more information, abstract and full text) | Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Free University of Berlin |
| Philipp Knopp | 2023 | Praxisform Polizeinotruf: Eine Studie zur Mobilisierung und Kontrolle von ziviler Wachsamkeit und polizeilicher Intervention (more information, abstract and full text) | Researcher and lecturer at Bertha von Suttner Privatuniversität, St. Pölten |
| Barbara Mataloni | 2024 | The creation of action space(s) in young people’s leisure time: Insights based on a new measurement instrument for survey research | |
| Jana Mikats | 2024 | When home is a workplace: Practices of doing family, gender and childhood in relation to home-based work (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral researcher at Webster Vienna Private University |
| Maria Schlechter | 2023 | Sozialbindungen von Jugendlichen zwischen schulischen Regeln und digitalen Medien: Eine lebensweltanalytische digitale Ethnographie des Kommunikations(zeit)raums Schule (more information and abstract) | Postdoctoral Researcher at Bertha von Suttner Private University and Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna |