Spotlight
This page is dedicated to the employees of the IHS, who will be introduced via short interviews on a monthly basis. The Interviews focus on the personal as well as the academic background of the people constituting the IHS. Older articles will be archived and are accessible on this page.
Sylvia Mandl
Sylvia Mandl as been working at the IHS and in the Higher Education Research Group since 2019. Among other things, she is responsible for the international higher education research project EUROSTUDENT.
Angela Wroblewski

Angela Wroblewski is working at the Institute for Advanced Studies since 1996. She conducts research on gender equality issues in science and research and is one of the IHS Gender Equality Officers.
Shauna Stack

Shauna Stack is a Junior Researcher at IHS and part of the institute since 2020. As a member of the research group Science, Technology and Social Transformation she focuses mainly on the democratization of research and innovation.
Elisabet Torggler
Elisabet Torggler is head of the library at the Institute for Advanced Studies. In this interview, she talks about how digitalization affects her work and how it will change in the future.
Karim Bekhtiar
Karim Bekhtiar is a PhD student and has been at the IHS since 2018. His research focuses on labor market economics and technological change, among other things.
Kerstin Plank
Kerstin Plank is a socio-economist and part of the research group "Energy, Environment and Sustainable Economic Structures". Her expertise lies in the interface of society, economy and environment. In this interview she gives an insight into her research.
Marcel Seifert
Marcel Seifert is part of the IHS Behavioral Economics Research Group since 2021. In the interview, he explains what he sees as the key to more climate protection and sustainability and what role IHS plays in this.
Felix Schröter
Felix Schröter is an economist and has been working at IHS since 2023. He is part of the research group European Governance, Public Finance and Labor Market and deals with fiscal policy, among other topics.
Nora Haag

Nora Haag joined IHS in 2018, then as a student assistant. Today, the sociologist conducts research in the field of higher education research and has most recently been involved in a project on student monitoring.
Kira Abstiens
Kira Abstiens is a Researcher at IHS and works in the research group for Behavioral Economics, Insight Austria. She studied psychology in Vienna and is interested in health and sustainability topics as well as science communication.
Alexander Lang
Alexander Lang has been at the IHS since 2011 and explored a series of different topics in his research, including technology assessments, responsible research, and examining the notion of “good death". He is part of the research group Science, Technology and Social Transformation and currently working on his dissertation.
Judith Engleder
Judith Engleder has been at IHS since 2018 and is a member of the IHS research group Higher Education Research. Her time at IHS has so far been marked by her work on the Student Social Survey.
Andreas Huber
Andreas Huber is a historian and sociologist and at IHS since 2019. He is responsible for processing the institute's archives and for his book "Der Deutsche Klub", which he wrote together with Linda Erker and Klaus Taschwer, on the shortlist for the Science Book of the Year.
Anna Durnová
Anna Durnová currently works as an Elise Richter Research Fellow at the competence center Insight Austria. In her work, she is primarily concerned with the interplays between emotions and knowledge in politics.
Richard Sellner
Richard Sellner has been at IHS for more than 10 years and has also been a member of the Economic Forecast Group for almost a year. He is part of the Macroeconomics and Economic Policy research group. In the Spotlight interview, he talks about his research interests and home office routine in times of the corona crisis.
Vlasta Zucha
Sociologist Vlasta Zucha joined IHS in fall 2019 and works in the research group Higher Education Research. Before joining IHS she gained seven years of experience as project manager at Statistik Austria.
Elisabeth Frankus
Elisabeth Frankus is a Senior Researcher at the IHS research rroup Techno-Science and Societal Transformation and works on fostering responsible research and innovation, participation and the mobility of the future. Since this year, she is also coordinating the research platform Science Goes Public.
Markus Kraus
Markus Kraus is a member of IHS since 15 years and works at the research group Health Economics and Health Policy. He is currently involved with an EU-funded project regarding integrated care for people with multimorbidity.
Nadia Steiber
Nadia Steiber joined the IHS at the beginning of 2018 and works in the research group in_Equality and Education on the topics of education, labor market and social inequality. At the moment she is involved in multiple projects including labor market integration of migrants in Austria and social progress in education and work.