Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Sylvia Kritzinger

Professor of Methods in the Social Sciences, Department of Government, University of Vienna

Sylvia Kritzinger is Professor of Methods in the Social Sciences at the Department of Government of the University of Vienna. She obtained her PhD in Political Science at the University of Vienna and was then Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS-Vienna). She is one of the principal investigators of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES) and the Austrian Cooperative Infrastructure for Electoral Research (ACIER). She acts as Deputy Director of the Vienna Centre for Electoral Research (VieCER), runs the infrastructure initiative PUMA (Platform for Surveys, Methods and Empirical Analyses) and the 2018 round of the European Value Study (EVS). She serves as advisor to the Methods Advisory Board (MAB) of the European Research Infrastructure European Social Survey (ESS). Her research focuses on Political Behaviour and Electoral Research, Democratic Representation and Political Participation. She has published inter alia in Political Communication, Electoral Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, British Journal of Political Science, etc.