The STS Unit is growing steadily!

Wer are happy to welcome Julian Anslinger, Michael Kriechbaum and Stefan Reichmann.

   Julian Anslinger wrote his PhD thesis (submitted May, 2019) in social psychology at the Center of Excellence for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) in the work group applied social psychology and gender research. He is expert for social psychological processes, gender studies, quantitative methods and scientific communication. His areas of research are social gender justice in academia and research, stereotypes, sexual objectification and harassment, sexism, judgment and decision making as well as queer-feminist science and technology studies    Currently he is working at IFZ Graz in the department of Women* – Technology – Environment and member of the work group Queer STS. He is working in the projects CHANGE and VITAPATCH.  
In the beginning of 2019 Julian Anslinger was awarded with a scholarship of the of the Bielefelder Fund for Young Scientists (Bielefelder Nachwuchsfonds). He is fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz since July 2019.  
Since October 2019 Julian Anslinger holds the position of Deputy Head of the organization ommittee of the STS Conference Graz.  
Main fields of research: social gender justice in academia and research, stereotypes, sexual objectification and harassment, sexism, judgment and decision making as well as queer-feminist science and technology studies

   Michael Kriechbaum holds bachelor degrees in environmental system sciences (with the focus areas geography and economics), a master degree in sustainable development, and a PhD in sustainability-oriented management. He attained all degrees at the University of Graz, but spend exchange and research stays at the University of the Pacific (USA), Utrecht University (NED), University of Stellenbosch (RSA), and the Technical University of Madrid (ESP). In his PhD research, which he carried out as a member of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme “climate change – uncertainties, thresholds and strategies”, he analyzed the institutional structures that co-emerge with renewable energy technologies and examined how these novel structures interact with already established institutional configurations.  
In his current post-doc position at the STS Unit, Michael is responsible for developing a research proposal entitled ‘Power to Gas in sustainable energy systems: Technological visions for a cross-sectoral energy innovation’.  
Main fields of research: Sustainable innovation, socio-technical change, energy policy, technological expectations 

   Stefan Reichmann is a researcher in the STS Unit and a PhD-candidate in sociology at the University of Graz. Additionally, he is a member of the Open and Reproducible Research Group (led by Tony Ross-Hellauer). As project researcher in data management, he is involved in developing Research Data Management and Open Science Policies. In 2019, he was awarded an Early Career Grant by the Research Data Alliance Europe. Stefan holds degrees in sociology (MA 2016) and philosophy (Mag. phil. 2013). Stefan’s current research interests include the impact of Open Science on researchers and policy makers. His dissertation research explores the opportunities and for and barriers to introducing research data management at Graz University of Technology. 
Before joining the STS Unit and the ORRG, Stefan was a research assistant in national and European-funded research projects, in particular the Horizon2020 project TRUESSEC.eu which developed a criteria catalogue for trustworthy IT. Before his dissertation project, Stefan also worked in SysSon, a project that explored the possibilities of sonification (i.e. the use of sound to explore data structures) for analysing climate data. For the STS Unit, Stefan works in the ON-MERRIT project (Horizon2020) studying Matthew effects in responsible research and innovation. 
Main fields of research: Sociology of science, knowledge, and technology, Open Science, Responsible Research and Innovation