Mag. Dr. Erich Griessler
- Social Sustainable Transformation
erich.griessler@ihs.ac.at

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Erich Griessler has been a senior researcher at IHS since 1999 and is part of the research group "Social Sustainable Transformation". He studied sociology and history in Vienna and Maastricht and holds a PhD in sociology. Before joining the IHS, he conducted research at the University of Vienna, the AIT and the Ludwig Boltzmann Society. From 2003 to 2017 he taught empirical social science at WU and the University of Vienna. Since 2015 he teaches at the Department of Political Science (University of Vienna). In 2016 he started a research group on science, technology and social change at the IHS, which he will lead until 2023.
His research interests include social studies of science and technology, ethical, legal, and social aspects of research and innovation, democratic participation, regulation of assisted reproductive technologies, political sociology, responsibility in research, and transdisciplinarity.
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Machen BürgerInnenräte einen Unterschied? Vergleichende qualitative Analyse der Wirkungen ausgewählter nationaler BürgerInnenräte zum Problem Klimawandel. (2025)
with Shauna Stack
SWS-Rundschau (65. Jg.) Heft 1/ 2025: 6–26Dealing with radiation risks in systemic cancer treatment: Perspectives of practitioners and patients in French hospitals. (2025)
with Solenn Thircuir, Héloïse Pillayre and Johannes Starkbaum
PLOS ONE, 20, e0316998
Reflections on the science society relationship. A mixed-methods study on science skepticism in Austria. (2025)
with Johannes Starkbaum, Peter Grand, et al.
Accepted for publication, ÖZSNavigating Care: Understanding Cancer Patients’ Experiences with Systemic Radionuclide Therapy. (2025)
with Johannes Starkbaum, Solenn Thircuir and Florian Winkler
Supportive Care in Cancer.
The Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe. Variation, Convergence and Trends. (2022)
with Lenka Slepičková, Heleen Weyers, Florian Winkler and Nicolle Zeegers (eds.)
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group- Genetic Nature Observation and Action (GENOA).
Funding: COST - Gesundheitsdaten. Chancen und Risiken der Nutzung für Früherkennung, Prävention und Forschung.
Funding: TA-SWISS - CLIMAS - Climate change citizens engagement toolbox for dealing with Societal resilience
Funding: HORIZON-MISS-2021-CLIMA-02 - Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft - Läuft etwas falsch? Ursachenstudie zu Ambivalenzen und Skepsis in Österreich in Bezug auf Wissenschaft und Demokratie
Funding: Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research - Qualitative analysis of interdisciplinarity- and open innovation practices within, and in the context of the research group “Senescence and Healing of Wounds (SHoW)”‑ Lessons for organizational learning
Funding: Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
- Genetic Nature Observation and Action (GENOA).