PhDs

Jana Brandl, MMSc.

Jana Brandl is a PhD candidate at the Research Platform The Challenges of Urban Futures at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include the interrelation of social and environmental sustainability, the role of gender in socio-ecological transformations, and critical discourse analysis. She obtained a MSc. in Welfare Management and Policies from Lund University and a MSc. in Socioeconomics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. After her studies she worked at Lund University on the research project The New Urban Challenge? Models of Sustainable Welfare in Swedish Metropolitan Cities as well as at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna on the research project TransLoc –Transformation of Cities into a Low Carbon Future and its Impacts on Urban Metabolism, Environment, and Society.

Contact: Jana.Brandl@univie.ac.at

Laura Lotteraner, MSc

Laura Lotteraner is a PhD candidate at the Research Platform The Challenges of Urban Futures at the University of Vienna. Her doctoral research is carried out at the intersection of data science and environmental sciences, starting with a project in groundwater modeling. Her main research interest is explaining human influence on our environment using data that is available from a variety of sources.

She obtained her MSc (Dipl.-Ing.) in Applied Mathematics from Vienna University of Technology. After her studies she joined Kapsch Group for a 2 year job rotation program in Vienna and Jönköping, Sweden, and became product owner for their deep learning based traffic analytics software.  

Contact: laura.lotteraner@univie.ac.at 

Hannah Sommer, MA

Hannah Sommer is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. Her doctoral research is carried out within the SoliDi (Solidarity in Diversity) project. She obtained her B.A. in philosophy and her B.Sc. in psychology at LMU Munich and her MA in philosophy at University College London. In her MA dissertation titled ‘Refuge, Power and Social Identity’ she looked at how power dynamics and related discourses shape social realities of people labelled as ‚refugees’ and/or ‚migrants’ and what kind of (structural) inequalities result from these power differentials. After the completion of her master’s degree, Hannah worked for the Munich Refugee Council (2019-2021). She first worked in a project locally implementing the UN’s global refugee resettlement programme and then in another project in cooperation with Amnesty International where she provided legal consultation to asylum seekers.

Contact: Hannah.Sommer@univie.ac.at