Anja BAUER
Dr.
Anja Bauer is a political scientist with a focus on environmental, sustainability and technology governance and worked at ITA from June 2015 to May 2020. She was particularly interested in the role of expertise, anticipation and participation in decision-making processes. She worked on public participation in the context of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as well as the practices and paradigms of policy advice in technology assessment.
Ernst BRAUN
Prof. Ernest Braun was the founding director of the Technology Assessment Unit (TAU) 1988 to 1991, which became in 1994 the Institute of Technology Assessment. He was previously professor for physics and technology policy at the Aston University in Birmingham.
See: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Braun_(Technikforscher)
Rafaela CAVALCANTI de ALCÂNTARA
Mag.
Rafaela is holding a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and a Bachelor’s in Law. As part of the Auto-Welf project team at ITA, she dedicated herself to understanding the connections between welfare, data analysis, and the use of algorithms in the public sector - especially regarding urban management and social security. For this purpose, she has been conducting ethnographic research in Portugal. She was at the ITA from January 2023 to December 2025.
Leo CAPARI
Mag.
Leo Capari is a human ecologist and was a Junior Scientist in the Technology and Sustainability Department at ITA from June 2013 to May 2022. His main research interests were Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), Environmental Sciences /Sustainability Sciences but also Bibliometrics/Scientometrics. A methodological focus of interest was computer-based social network analysis and network visualization.
Johann ČAS
Ing. Mag.
Johann Čas a technology assessment expert from January 1988 to the end of March 2023 and thus one of the first scientific staff members of ITA. In his research, he has dealt with numerous aspects of the information society and societal consequences of information and communication technologies. Past research interests include technological development programs, employment and regional development impacts, and regulatory issues of new telecommunications technologies.
Daniela FUCHS
MSc BA
Daniela Fuchs is a human ecologist and joined ITA in April 2014 as a Junior Scientist until March 2023. She has been working on public participation issues in the context of new technologies (neuroenhancement, synthetic biology) in several EU projects, as well as on the use of computer modeling in policy advice.
André GAZSÓ
MMag. Dr.
His career in TA began in 1998 with studies on thermonuclear fusion. In this role he led a number of projects within the EU/Euratom SERF (Socio-economic Research on Fusion) programme. In 2002, he was a project partner of ‘Trustnet 2’ and its sequel ‘Trustnet-in-Action’, a European network on risk management and risk governance. Until the end of 2024, he worked primarily on nanotechnologies.
Alicia GUTTING
Mag.a
Alicia Gutting is a cultural studies graduate and worked as a junior researcher at the ITA in the field of energy system transformation and sustainable energy technologies from November 2017 until September 2018. Since 2015 she has been working as a research assistant at the ITA, first in the project Monitoring of Urban Technologies (MuT), then in 2016 in the project MATCH: Markets - Actors - Technologies. In October 2018 she joined the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm as a PhD candidate in the ERC project NUCLEARWATERS.
Julia HASLINGER
Mag.a
In 2008, she started at the ITA as an intern and then continued to work on several projects. After her graduation she became a staff member and was involved in the project NanoTrust and other projects on sustainable development and environment technologies. Her focus lied on the media coverage of nanotechnology in print media in Austria, Germany and Switzerland and on participatory processes on nanotechnology.
Magdalena Hinteregger
BSc of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna.
Currently studying phytomedicine at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
Aug 2021 - Dec 2025 part of the project: NanoTrust-Beyond
René KÖNIG
Dipl.Soz.
From April 2008 until January 2011 employed at ITA, firstly as trainee, then as scientific assistent in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT). After that postgraduate at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) in Karlsruhe (Germany).
Steffen BETTIN
MSc
Jaro Krieger-Lamina (né Sterbik-Lamina) holds a degree in information security management and is interested in the relation between surveillance, security and the protection of privacy. Other research interests are information security management, data protection, cyber security and the protection of critical infrastructures. Since 2007 he has been a research associate at the ITA working in various projects in the research area of privacy. He left the Institute in April 2025.
Helge TORGERSEN
Helge TORGERSEN
Dr.
Helge Torgersen joined ITA in June 1990 and worked initially in the field of biotechnology, later on governance of technology controversies. He was generally interested in the relationship between technology development and societal perceptions; specifically, in recent years he worked mainly on societal aspects of synthetic and systems biology as well as nanotechnology and on participatory processes of technology assessment. He retired at the end of 2019.
Titus UDREA
Dr.
Titus Udrea is a political scientist researching in the areas of representation, new forms of participation and governance, with a special focus on the role of social networks, policy advice, expertise and participation in policy-making processes. From July 2018 to January 2024 he worked at the ITA as a post-doc.
Petra WÄCHTER
Mag.a Dr.in
Dr. Petra Wächter was a researcher at the ITA (see projects) from March 2009 to February 2015. In march 2014 she passed with honors her doctoral studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business with the title: Future Energy Use in Austria: Contributions about the Transformation to a Sustainable Energy System.