Verena Winiwarter#
Photo: Pilo Pichler
| Membership Number: | 5365 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6033-4219 |
| Twitter: | @VWiniwarter |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/verena-winiwarter-1552383a/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Professor Emeritus
- 2018 Professor for Environmental History at the Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- 2010, 01 - 2015, 12 Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies
- 2007 - 2017 Professor of Environmental History at the University of Klagenfurt (Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies)
- 2003 - 2009 Head of the Centre for Environmental History at the IFF (Institute for Research and Post-Graduate Education)
- 2003 - 2007 Co-ordinator of the Study Program "Environmental History" at the University of Vienna
- 2003 - 2006 APART fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities: Team Member 1993 - 1999. Firnberg Research Fellow University of Vienna, Institute for Anthropology, 1999 - 2002. Research Fellow St. Gallen University, Switzerland, March - July 2003
- Lecturer at the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt and the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna since 1993 (more than 160 courses taught)
- Lecturer at the Summer School on Environmental History, CEU, Budapest, July 2002
Fields of Scholarship
- River landscapes
- Theory of interdisciplinary research
- Soil science
- Environmental history
- Contaminated sites
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Corresponding Member Austrian Academy of Sciences, Section for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- 2014 “Austrian Scientist of the year 2013”
- (Austrian Club of Science and Education Journalists)
- 2015 Grand Decoration of Honour of Carinthia
- 2016 Full Member Austrian Academy of Sciences, Section for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award of the City of Vienna (Preis der Stadt Wien für Geistes-, Kultur-, Sozial- und Rechtswissenschaften)
- 2019 Honorary Doctorate in Environmental History, Aalborg Universitet
