Faculty Members and Staff

Get to know our faculty members, whose expertise and dedication shape our research, teaching, and academic community. Explore their profiles to learn more about their research interests, academic backgrounds, and areas of specialisation.

  • Esther Blanco
    Professor of Public Economics in Particular Sustainability
    Research Areas: Behavioral science helping societies overcome collective-action problems under environmental change
    ORCID: 0000-0002-4887-5717
  • Bettina Grün
    Professor of Data Science
    Research Areas: Statistical Software, Statistical Modeling, Cluster Analysis, Bayesian and Computational Statistics
    ORCID: 0000-0001-7265-4773
  • Felix Holzmeister
    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Finance 
    Research Areas: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Meta-Science
    ORCID: 0000-0001-9606-0427
  • Stefan Lang
    Professor of Statistics
    Research Areas: Applications in Marketing Science, Development Economics, Actuarial Mathematics, Real Estate Modelling
    ORCID: 0000-0003-0739-3858
  • Florian Morath
    Professor of Public Economics
    Research Areas: Public Economics, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics
    ORCID: 0000-0001-9044-3187
  • Doris Oberdabernig
    Professor of Economics in Particular Enviromental Economics
    Research Areas: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, International Economic Relations, Political Economy
    ORCID: 0000-0002-9913-3844
  • Michael Pfaffermayr
    Professor of International Economics
    Research Areas: International and Industrial Economics, Panel Econometrics, Foreign Direct Investment, Multinational Firms and Trade
    ORCID: 0000-0002-8558-7757
  • Johann Scharler
    Professor of Macroeconomics
    Research Areas: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics
  • Heiner Schumacher
    Professor of Experimental and Behavioral Economics
    Research Areas: Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics
    ORCID: 0000-0002-2259-6728
  • Reto Stauffer
    Associate Professor for Statistics
    Research Areas: Statistical Software, Statistical Modeling, Machine Learning, Probabilistic (Weather) Forecasting, Statistical Applications in Climate and the Atmosphere
    ORCID: 0000-0002-3798-5507
  • Andreas Steinmayr
    Professor of Empirical Economics
    Research Areas: Migration and the integration of refugees and other migrants, hiring and job search, education and health decisions, methods for causal inference
    ORCID: 0000-0002-2491-5032
  • Matthias Sutter
    Professor of Experimental Economics
    Research Areas:team decision-making, the development of economic decision-making behavior in children and adolescents
    ORCID: 0000-0002-6143-8706
  • Nikolaus Umlauf (Dean of Studies)
    Professor of Computational Statistics
    Research Areas: Bayesian and Computational Statistics, Development and Empirical Economics, Environmental Statistics, Machine Learning, Model Choice and Variable Selection, Probabilistic Forecasting, Semiparametric Regression, Spatial Statistics,  Statistical Computing and Software
    ORCID: 0000-0003-2160-9803
  • Janette Walde (Vice Rector of Teaching and Students)
    Professor of Statistics
    ORCID: 0000-0002-1241-5292
  • Markus Walzl (Dean)
    Professor of Microeconomics and Institutional Economics
    Research Areas: Game Theory, Information Economics, Competion Economics
    ORCID: 0000-0003-3732-7755

  • Achim Zeileis
    Professor of Statistics
    Research Areas: Statistical Software, Statistical Modelling, Machine Learning, Weather Forecasting, Psychometrics, E-Learing
    ORCID: 0000-0003-0918-3766

  • Nicolas Apfel
    Research Areas: Causal inference, (Applied) Econometrics, Statistical Learning, Applications in Labor and Trade Economics (applying and developing machine learning methods)

  • Max Breitenlechner
    Research Areas: International Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Finance, Macroeconometrics

  • Johannes Buggle
    Research Areas: Economic History, Political Economy, and the long-run interplay of culture and institutions

  • Andreas Exenberger
    Research Areas: Globalization and International Economic Relations, Political Economy, Poverty Research in global and local contexts

  • Anita Gantner
    Research Areas: Experimental Economics, Game Theory, Microeconomics

  • Daniela Glätzle-Rützler
    Research Areas: Behavioral and Experimental Economics

  • Andrea Leiter-Scheiring
    Research Areas: Health Economics, Environmental and International Trade Economics

  • Rupert Sendlhofer
    Research Areas: Public Finance, with a focus on taxation and public debt

  • Robert Steiger
    Research Areas: Sustainable Tourism Development, Regional Economics, Behavioral Economics (tourist behavior) and climate change impacts on tourism

  • Gabriele Steckel-Berger
    Research Areas: Decision Theory, Bayesian Models, Multivariate Statistics, Data Analysis

  • Marica Valente
    Research Areas: Microeconometrics, Causal Inference, Machine learning, Applied Economics, Environmental Economics

  • Joop Adema
    Research Areas: Labor Economics and Political Economy
  • Julian Benda
    Research Areas: Behavioral Economics and Experimental Economics
  • Sebastian Butschek
    Research Areas: Applied Microeconomics, Labour Markets
  • Pedru Crudu
    Research Areas: Applied Econometrics, Labour and Health Economics, Machine Learning
  • Ruby Doeleman
    Research Areas: Public Finance, International Tax Policy, Profit Shifting by Multinational Enterprises
  • Daniel Gründler
    Research Areas: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Macroeconometrics, Bayesian Econometrics
  • Essi Kujansuu
    Research Areas: Experimental Economics, Behavioural Economics
  • Daniel Neururer
    Research Areas: Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Fabian Petutschnig
    Research Areas: Cooperatives, Economic Democracy, Network Analysis, Development Economics, Game Theory
  • Thomas Rittmannsberger
    Research Areas: Behavioral and Experimental Economics 
  • Johannes Seiler
    Research Areas: Computational Statistics, Statistical modelling of health outcomes using large datasets, Global Health, SDG monitoring (especially SDG 2 and SDG 3)
  • Julia Spornberger
    Research Areas: International Economics, Applied Econometrics
  • Natalie Struwe
    Research Areas: Experimental Economy with a focus on cooperation and collective action in social dilemma situations
  • Patrick Tomberger
    Research Area: International Economics
  • Karolina Vocke
    Research Areas: Matching Markets, Game Theory, Networks
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