Professor and Sociologist, Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria; Director, Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute for the Sociology of Health and Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Studies in sociology, psychology, philosophy and art history at the Freie Universität Berlin, the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), the Universität Hamburg, University of Vienna and at the Institute for Advance Studies in Vienna Dr Phil., University of Vienna Post doc, Columbia University, NYC, with a fellowship from the Ford Foundation Habitation in sociology at Faculty for Social Science,  University of Vienna Psychoanalytic training analysis (affiliated member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society) training in group dynamics and systemic organizational consulting  (teaching trainer for group dynamics and organizational consulting at the Austrian Society for Group Dynamics and Organizational Consulting - OGGO)

access, empowerment, ethnic minorities, health literacy, health promotion, maternity care, migrants, prenatal course.