Robert Groß

Career

• 2023 - 2024 Research assistant in the project "Phasing in: Understanding the emergence of Vienna's natural gas dependence, 1969-1978", funded by: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• 2023 - 2023 Replacement of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Kupper at the Chair of Economic and Social History, Institute of Historical Sciences and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck
• 2022 - 2023 EVN100 Fellow, funded by EVN AG, Maria Enzersdorf
• 2019 - 2019 Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of the LMU Munich
• 2018 - 2021 Research assistent in the project MAT_STOCKS: Understanding the Role of Material Stock Patterns for the Transformation to a Sustainable Society; funded by H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) (Project ID: 741950)
• 2018 - 2021 University assistent at the "Kernfach Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte", Institute of History and European Ethnology of the Innsbruck University
• 2017 - 2018 Scholar-in-Residence at the "Münchner Zentrum für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte" of "Deutschen Museum", project "Der deutsche Forstwirtschafts-Zellstoffindustriekomplex 1933-1952: Nachhaltigkeit, Autarkie und Innovation"
• 2017 - 2018 Teaching assignment "Schauplätze des European Recovery Program (ERP)/Marshall Plan in Westösterreich" (4 ECTS), institute of history and european ethnology, Innsbruck University
• 2017 - 2018 Organizer of the International Colloquium "Transformative Recovery? The European Recovery Program (ERP)/Marshall Plan in European Tourism" in cooperation with Fachbereich Geschichte of the Salzburg University, funded by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation.
• 2017 Member of "Arbeitskreis Tourismusforschung" of the German Sociey for Geography (DGfG)
• 2017 - 2018 Lead Author of the APCC Special Report Health, Demography and Climate Change; Chapter 4: Maßnahmen mit Relevanz für Gesundheit und Klima
• 2016 - 2017 Research assistent in the project "Whatever the weather. We must move together. Towards an environmental history of the post-WWII relations of the U.S.A. and Austria”, funded by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies in Washington DC/USA
• 2016 - 2016 Participant of the International Graduate Workshop ‘Transformations of the Earth’ of the Rachel Carson Center of the LMU Munich and the Center for Ecological History at the Renmin University in Beijing/China.
• 2016 Member of the Environmental History Cluster Austria (EHCA)
• 2015 - 2015 research assistent in the project "Skilifte, Bildpostkarten und Massentourismus. Der Fotograf Risch-Lau als Akteur im Kulturlandschaftswandel?", supported by the provincial government of Vorarlberg,
• 2014 - 2014 Guest scholar at the DFG-funded research training group "Topology of Technology" at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
• 2014 Member of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
• 2013 - 2014 Research assistent in the project "Die Transformation der ländlichen Räume in Österreich durch das ERP (European Recovery Program)", funded by "Forschungsrat" of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Vienna, Graz
• 2013 - 2018 Coordinator of the Center for Environmental History (ZUG) of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Vienna, Graz
• 2013 - 2013 ERASMUS+ internship at the Center for Culture and Global Studies at the Aalborg University, Denmark
• 2013 - 2013 Summer school "Mountains Across Borders – A Summer School in environmental history" of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) in Lavin, Switzerland
• 2012 - 2015 Research assistant in the project "How skiers’ sensations shaped Alpine valleys. An environmental history of winter tourism in Vorarlberg/Austria from 1920 – 2010", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (no. P24278-G18)
• 2011 - 2011 Project "Naturschutz zwischen Bodensee und Gletschereis. Eine umwelthistorische Annäherung an die Landesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Fokus auf der touristischen Entwicklung in Vorarlberg"; with support of "Verein für sozialwissenschaftliche Regionalforschung", Bregenz.
• 2011 - 2017 Doctoral studies environmental history at the Institute of Social Ecology of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Vienna, Graz (passed with distinction)
• 2008 - 2010 Diploma Thesis "Wie das 1950er Syndrom in die Täler kam. Umwelthistorische Überlegungen zur Konstruktion von Wintersportlandschaften anhand des Beispiels Damüls in Vorarlberg", funded by "Verein für sozialwissenschaftliche Regionalforschung", Bregenz.
• 2002 - 2010 Individual diploma studies "Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences" at the University of Vienna
• 1992 - 2002 Professional experience in different, non-scientific fields

Awards

• Year: 2018 Awards: Wissenschaftspreis des Stand Montafon, Kategorie Dissertation, Titel “Die Beschleunigung der Berge. Eine Umweltgeschichte des Wintertourismus in Vorarlberg/Österreich, 1920-2018“, 20. November 2018