Management team

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Isolde Prommer

Executive Manager

The PhaNuSpo Executive Manager/Coordinator - Isolde Prommer - is the first point of contact for PhD students and PI members. Tasks and responsibilities include administrative or other questions related to the doctoral programmes and management of all aspects related to PhaNuSpo activities, such as organisation of events/activities, monitoring, internal and external communication, budget management, organisation of PhD advertisements and selection procedures, preparation of reports to the SAB and Rectorate, and coordination with other administrative units within the University.

The office will be closed between 12 and 29 August 2023.

Biography: Isolde completed her MSc and PhD in Landscape Ecology and Regional Planning at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna. She worked as a researcher and project manager at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (1997-2012). Her research focused on population projections, data validation, modelling population-development-environment interactions, and population and climate change. Besides research, she mainly managed projects funded by the European Commission's FP-6 and FP-7 Framework Programmes. After 15 years at IIASA, she moved to the University of Vienna to coordinate the research platform "Human Rights in the European Context", which ended in mid-2014. Isolde continued to work with the renowned human rights experts Prof. Manfred Nowak and Prof. Hannes Tretter at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights (2014-2020) and the Human Rights Research Center at the University of Vienna (2014-2018). She has worked as a project developer and programme manager for both organisations.

Julia Li

Study Assistant

Who to contact according to the stage of your doctoral studies

Admission to PhD studies

Entry/Visa and residence permit

Submission of thesis, review, defense