CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of Empirical Gender Research at the University of Innsbruck.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
since 10/19 Assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck (parental leave from 05/21 to 07/22)
04/19 - 10/19: Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at the Ludwig- Maximilians-University (LMU Munich)
10/18 - 04/19: Marie Andeßner Research Fellow, University of Salzburg.
04/18 - 10/18: Laufer Research Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
05/15 - 04/18: Junior scholar, project ‘Consequences of Electoral System Change in Modern Democracies’ funded by the FWF,
University of Salzburg
EDUCATION
2019: Ph.D., Departement of Political Science, University of Salzburg (Austria)
2014: M.A. European Affairs, Sciences Po Paris, France
2011: B.A. European Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
2010: Semester Abroad at the faculty for International Relations Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
GRANTS
2021 Research Grant by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) for the project "Communicating the COVID 19 crisis" (398,170.50€, wirh Lore Hayek and Martin Senn)
2021: Research grant by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the project ““Can she do the job? How MPs control female ministers” (200,000.00€, with Corinna Kroeber).
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
02/16 - 06/16: Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, Vienna, Austria
Consultation: provision of analytical reports, identification of relevant opportunities for partnership-building and development of related coordination between the Austrian and Zambian parliament
01/13 - 02/15: European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Research assistant to a Member of the European Parliament
05/12–07/12: European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Internship at the office of a Member of the European Parliament
11/11–05/12: Amnesty International, Berlin
Internship in the department Country, Topics and Asylum, main focus Africa, ESC rights, police and disarmament
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2018: Marie Andeßner Felloship of the Gendup, University Salzburg (24 000€)
2018: Laufer Fellowship of the Laufer Stiftung, LMU Munich (8900€)
2016: Erika Weinzierl Scholarship awarded by the ‘Women’s Office’ of the city of Salzburg and the ‘Department for Women, Diversity and Equal Opportunities’ of the Province of Salzburg (1200€)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
since 2015: Co-editor of the academic blog “Counting Counts” (countingcountsblog.wordbress.com or @electsystblog).
2022: Co-Organizer Workshop "Women as Political Actors", University of Greifswald
2020: Section chair “Analyzing Institutions: Limits and Responses to Challenges of Modern Democracies?” at the visual ECPR General Conference (Innsbruck, Austria).
INVITED TALKS
2022: Women’s Leadership in the European Parliament: A Long-Term Perspective. Virtual Workshop. Tampereen yliopisto / University of Tampere, Tampere.
2022: Die Repräsentation von Frauen im Deutschen Bundestag - Historische Entwicklung, aktuelle Ereignisse und die Debatte um die Quote. Arbeitskreis Politikwissenschaften. Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Bamberg.
2020: How gender stereotypes shape the way MPs assess the competences of ministers: Evidence from a survey experiment. Monday Seminar Series Trinity College Dublin, Dublin.
2020: How gender stereotypes shape the way MPs assess the competences of ministers: Evidence from a survey experiment. Essex Government Speaker Series.University of Essex, Colchester.
2020: Negative political speech and gender: Evidence from Austrian parliamentary debates. Kolloquium, GSI, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München.
2018: Lecture on "Women's representation in the Austrian parliament" (with Corinna Kroeber). Fachmittag of the Austrian Parliament (Vienna, Austria).
PHD SUPERVISION
Camila Montero (since April 2021)
COMMITTEES
since 2019 VIce-Chair Curriculum Commission University of Innsbruck.
2023 Member of the habilitation committee, University of Innsbruck.
2021 Member of the search committee, Assistant Professorship Experimental Political Science, University Innsbruck.
REVIEWER ACTIVITIES
Austrian Political Science Association’s best thesis award; British Journal of Political Science, Democratization, European Journal of Politics and Gender, Electoral Studies, Feminist Politics, Femina Politica, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Politics, Local Government Studies, Perspective on Politics, Political Behaviour,Political Research Quarterly, Politics&Gender, Representation, Social Science, West European Politics.