Lars Kaczmirek

Lars specializes in survey methodology and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Mannheim. He is honorary associate professor at the Australian National University (ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences) and adjunct assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research (ISR), Center for Political Studies (CPS). He is the co-founder of the journal Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, where he also was the editor for several years. In the past he was responsible for several large surveys of the general population in Germany in the domains of sociology, political science and psychology. He has extensive experience in successfully building new research infrastructures and services from scratch and is passionate about building infrastructure and tools that benefit science and society.

Lisa Hönegger

Lisa is the Deputy Head of AUSSDA and in charge of managing and developing the archive. She is also responsible for legal issues concerning data protection and licenses. Through further projects and working groups, she actively supports the areas of open science and research data management, as well as the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Lisa graduated in Political Science, Slavic Studies and Global Studies from the Universities of Vienna, Addis Ababa and Leipzig.

Christian Bischof

Christian is responsible for long-term archiving at AUSSDA and for the metadata used in the archiving process, and is also active in data curation. His responsibilities also include archiving technologies and the administration of the data repository software Dataverse. Christian studied sociology at the University of Vienna and has been working in the field of social science data archiving and data analysis since 2004.

Otto Bodi-Fernandez

As a senior research associate at the Institute of Sociology, Otto represents AUSSDA at the University of Graz and is thus the contact person for all AUSSDA matters in this region. In addition to research and teaching, he supports AUSSDA in data acquisition, offers advice and training on research data management and assists researchers in archiving replication data.

Anita Bodlos

Anita works at the University of Innsbruck at the department for Digital Research Services. For AUSSDA, she mainly focuses on research data management. Anita studied Political Science (MA) and Communication Studies (BA).

Iris Butzlaff

Iris coordinates the area of data access at AUSSDA, enabling interested researchers to access data. She also supports the team with data curation, as well as with long-term archiving. In addition, she coordinates the data ingest and works closely with depositors as a data curator to make metadata, datasets and documentation findable and reusable in the AUSSDA Dataverse. She also prepares data for long-term archiving to ensure the curated data can be found easily and remains available in the long term. Iris studied economics at the University of Göttingen and the University of Chile and holds a doctorate in economics.

Karin Faktor

Karin studied Art History at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and completed the university course Library and Information Studies in 2018. At AUSSDA, her responsibilities include the collection, processing and coordination of metadata for a public opinion research institute. She also supports the data access and curation team and takes care of internal office agendas.

Julia Geistberger

Julia is responsible for AUSSDA's communication affairs and supports with data acquisition and research data management. Moreover, she works for the project Infra4NextGen, organizing webinars and creating educational videos. She studied political and communication science and graduated in International Development (BA) and Journalism (MA).

Veronika Heider

Lisa Hirsch

Lisa works in the areas of data ingest and data preparation. Within the EOSC Future project, she organises and delivers trainings for Open Science and creates training materials that can be reused. Lisa studied political science and statistics, and then completed her PhD in political science at Aarhus University.

Franziska Krauss

As an organisational assistant, Franziska supports AUSSDA in Business Development & Administration as well as in communication activities. She also works for OpenAIRE, as their Network Outreach and Engagement Officer. Before she joined AUSSDA and OpenAIRE, she studied Political Science (MA) and Sociology in Munich and Vienna.

Lorenz Makula

Lorenz studied sociology at the University of Graz. At AUSSDA, he is mainly involved in data ingest and data preparation, where he assesses the quality of research data and publishes datasets. In addition, he participates in a CESSDA project for data management and archiving.

Dimitri Prandner

Dimitri is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Empirical Social Research at JKU and the regional contact for AUSSDA in Upper Austria and Salzburg. He supports AUSSDA in accompanying research and offers researchers advice on research data management and data protection. He is a member of the SSÖ consortium, leads work package 5 - Digitisation of social science methodology in the Digitize(!) project and represents Austria in a project on survey data on ethnic and migrant minorities. Dimitri holds degrees in Sociology (Mag.) and Communication Science (Dr.) and is Ars Docendi laureate 2020.

Maria Schreiner

Maria is a student assistant at the "FAIR-Infopoint" of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. She is the contact person for requests regarding AUSSDA and research data management at the faculty. In addition, she supports AUSSDA in data acquisition and data processing. Maria is currently studying Political Science: European and International Studies at the University of Innsbruck (Master’s Programme).

Nikolai Soran

Nikolai works at the Main Campus Library (License Management and Scholarly Services - ­­eBooks, AUSSDA) at JKU Linz and supports AUSSDA in data curation.