Marina Fischer-Kowalski

Career

• 2018 Transfer Institute of Social Ecology to University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2018 prof. em. and senior scientist at the Institute of Social Ecology, BOKU Vienna
• 2003 - 2014 full professor of Social Ecology at the Alpen-Adria-University
• 2003 visiting professor at the University Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• 2002 visiting professor at the Faculty for Forestry and the Environment, Yale University, USA
• 2000 - 2003 director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities (IFF)
• 1997 visiting professor at Roskilde University, Denmark
• 1996 visiting fellow at Griffith University, Australia
• 1992 guest lecturer at the Institute for Global Governance, London School of Economics
• 1991 - 1999 lecturer in Environmental System Sciences at the University of Graz
• 1987 - 1991 lecturer for gender relations at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Vienna and Innsbruck
• 1987 - 1994 vice director and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities (IFF)
• 1986 - 2019 lecturer for sociology at the University of Vienna
• 1986 - 2011 founder and head of the Institute of Social Ecology at the Faculty (resp. Institute) for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF)
• 1985 - 1986 research cooperation with F. Kreissler (Sorbonne) on unemployment and quality of life (comparison France - Austria)
• 1985 habilitation for sociology at Graz University
• 1982 - 1984 Austrian delegate to and consultant of OECD Paris, program social indicators
• 1971 - 1982 assistant professor for sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
• 1971 PhD in sociology, psychology and history of art (PhD, University of Vienna)
• 1970 - 1972 postgraduate social science studies at Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
• 1970 - 1978 lecturer at the Academy of Social Work, Vienna, for sociology and social psychology, and project learning
• 1967 - 1971 research assistant at the Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna