Marianne Penker
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr.nat.techn. Marianne
Penker
Institute of Development Research
Location Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Wien
Email marianne.penker@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73115
ORCID: 0000-0002-5185-9558, opens in new window.
AuthorId : 6505929928, opens in new window.
classifications according to Statistics Austria:
Agricultural sociologyEnvironmental researchRegional developmentSustainable agricultureSustainable economicsRegional research
Agricultural sociologyEnvironmental researchRegional developmentSustainable agricultureSustainable economicsRegional research
Research Focus
Rural Development; Inter- and transdisciplinary research supporting transformative solutions in rural areas of Europe and beyond
keywords
- Institutional Analysis
- Property Rights
- Regional Governance
- Landscape Governance
- Collective Action
- Local food systems
- Geographical indications
- Agro-Food Systems, Agro-Food Studies
Career
- 2015 Deputy Head of Institute
- 2025 Head of the Institute
- 2022 - 2024 Deputy Head of Institute
- 2017 Professor for Rural Sociology and Rural Development
- 2013 - 2015 Deputy head of the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development
- 2011 - 2016 Deputy Head of the Doctoral School Sustainable Development
- 2009 - 2012 Deputy Head of Department
- 2008 - 2010 Guest Professor at the University Klagenfurt (MSc Programme Management of Protected Areas)
- 2007 Habilitation - Tenure position as Associate Professor for Regional Development
- 2004 - 2007 Assistant Professor (Vertragsassistentin), Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BOKU
- 2003 - 2003 Research visit, University College London, Department of Economics, CSERGE: The Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment
- 2003 - 2008 Guest Professor at the Free University Bozen/Bolzano in Italy ( for Economic and Structural Development in Rural Areas)
- 2001 - 2003 Assistent Professor, Institute of Agricultural Economics, BOKU
- 2000 - 2000 PhD, University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna
- 1999 - 2000 DOC – Grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1997 - 1999 Research Fellow, Institute of Agricultural Economics, BOKU
- 1996 - 1996 Diploma, University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna
Awards
- Year: 2019 Awards: AUSTRIAN SDG-AWARD, Senat der Wirtschaft, Parlament Carnuntum Projekt gewinnt den SDG Award im Bereich Gemeinden
- Year: 2015 Awards: European Research Council: Invitation to present a proposal for an ERC Consolidator Grant (Evaluation Panel SH3: Environment, Space and Population; final round of evaluation, grant not received)
- Year: 2001 Awards: Umweltforschungspreis der Stadt Wien
- Year: 1999 Awards: DOC Stipendium der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften