
Department Management
Team

Katherine Dormandy
Moral psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of digitalisation

Christoph Jäger
(Social) epistemology, philosophy of religion, theory of free will, theory of emotions

Christian Kanzian
Metaphysics, ontology, history of philosophy, philosophy of language, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Winfried Löffler
Logic, philosophy of science, applied ethics (medical ethics, environmental ethics), philosophy of religion

Federica Malfatti
(Social) epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science

Bruno Niederbacher SJ
Metaethics, morality and religion, philosophy of spirituality, St Thomas Aquinas

Claudia Paganini
Media ethics, environmental ethics, animal ethics, philosophy of digitalisation, religion and society, philosophy of religion

Josef Quitterer
Philosophy of mind, social philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, St Thomas Aquinas
Other research assistants
- Vukoman Milenkovic, MA MA, PhD student at Doctoral programme Philosophy of Religion
Emeriti or retired
- Assistant Prof. Dr. Bernhard Braun
- Univ.-Doz. Dr. Hans Kraml
- Emeritus Professor Dr Edmund Runggaldier SJ
- Emeritus Professor DDr Gerhard Leibold †
- Retired university professor Dr Hans Goller SJ
- Former university professor Dr. Siegfried Battisti
- emer. o.Univ.-Prof. Dr Otto Muck SJ †
- emer. o.Univ.-Prof. Dr Vladimir Richter SJ †
- emer. o.Univ.-Prof. DDr. Emerich Coreth SJ †
Visiting Fellows
- Matteo Baggio, Università di Torino (2025)
- Francesco Cagnin, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (2025)
- Gabriela Vičanová, Charles University Prague (2024)
- Sylwia Wilczewska, Catholic University of Lublin "John Paul II" (2019)
- Åke WahlbergPTH St. Georgen (2018-2019)
- Kathrin Koslicki, University of Alberta, (2018-2019)
- Marek PiwowarczykCatholic University of Lublin "John Paul II" (2018)
- Maria Ayelen Sanchez, Universidad Nacional del Sur (2016)
- Nguyen Vu Hao, Vietnam National University (2015)
Guest lecturers
- Karl Heinz Sager, Innsbruck (2020)
- Dr Christian Weidemann, University of Münster (2019)
- Prof. Dr Christoph Amor, Philosophical-Theological University of Brixen (2011, 2012, 2019)
- Natalia Deng, Yonsei University (2018)
- Justin McBrayer Ph.D., Fort Lewis College (2015/2016)
- ao. Prof. Dr Markus Moling, Philosophical Theological University of Bressanone/Brixen, (2015, 2016)
- Dr Stephan Herzberg, PTH St. Georgen (2015)
- Dr Dr Robert Deinhammer SJ, Innsbruck (2011, 2018, 2019)
- Dr theol. Peter Marinkovic Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munich (2011)
- Univ.-Doz. Mag. Dr Horst Schreiber, University of Innsbruck (2011)
- Prof. Dr Antonella Corradini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano (2010)
- Prof. Dr jur. utr. Norbert Brieskorn SJ, Munich School of Philosophy (2007)
- Dr Armin Berger, Salzburg (2006)
- PD Dr Ulrich Metschl, Ludwig-Maximillians-University Munich (2006)
- Prof Dr Elisabeth Gössmann †, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2005)
- Prof Dr Thomas M. Schmidt, Goethe University Frankfurt (2005)
- Dr Hubert Hänggi, Munich (2005)
- Dr Armin Schwibach, Ateneo Pontificia Regina Apostolorum (2004)
- PD Dr Uwe Meixner, University of Regensburg (2004)
Former employees (of the last years)
- Clement MayambalaM.Phil, Project Humane Epistemology: An Inquiry Concerning Social-Epistemic Structured Ignorance, Tiroler Nachwuchsforscher:innen Förderung (TNF)
- Scott Hill PhD, Post-doctoral Fellow in the trilateral EUREGIO project Resilient Beliefs: Religion and Beyond (until 2024)
- Univ.-Ass. Michael Vollmer, MA MSc (until 2023)
- Univ.-Ass. Dr Dr Robert Deinhammer SJ (until 2022)
- Peter M. Schenkel, MA, project collaborator in the FWF project "Critical Edition of František Příhonský's manuscript on David Friedrich Strauß" (2017-2021)
- Univ.-Ass. Dr phil. habil. Georg Gasser (Programme Administrator of the Analytic Theology Project of the John Templeton Foundation) (until 2020)
- Dr Klaus Viertbauer (until 2020)
- Jacob HessePhD (until 2020)
- Mag. Marisa Hanna Gasteiger, Project Associate in the Analytic Theology Project of the John Templeton Foundation (until 2020).
- Univ.-Prof. Dr Dr Christian Tapp, Endowed Professorship for Christian Philosophy of the Peter Kaiser Memorial Foundation (1793-1864) (2015-2019)
- Susannah Haas, BA (until 2019)
- Dipl.-Theol. Georg Wolfgang Alexander Sauerwein, MSc (until 2019)
- Marco BenassoPhD (until 2018)
- Simon KittlePhD (until 2018)
- Mag. Sylvia Eibl (until 2017)
- Lukas B. Kraus, PhD (until 2016)
- Daniel Saudek, PhD (until 2016)
- Univ.-Ass. Dr Christian Weidemann (until 2016)
- Dr Johannes Grössl (until 2014)
- Dr Anne Sophie Meincke neé Spann (until 2014)
- Dr Christian J. Feldbacher (until 2013)
- Adam GreenPhD (until 2013)
- Patrick ToddPhD (until 2013)
- Mag. Dipl.-Mus. Dr Rainer Klotz (until 2012)
- MMag. Matthias Stefan (until 2011)


