Barbara Prainsack
Univ.-Prof. Mag. phil. Dr. phil.Full Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2026
- Commission Democracies in Digital Societies, Chairwoman
- Commission on the de-fossilization and carbon neutrality of the European energy system
- Professorin für Vergleichende Politikfeldanalyse an der Universität Wien
Barbara.prainsack(at)univie.ac.at
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-6335-1532
Research Areas:
- Political Science
- Policy analysis
- Political sociology
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- Academia Europeae
- acatech
- Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (foreign member)
Selected Prizes:
- Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2023/24)
- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow (2016)
- Dissertationspreis der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (2023)
Selected Publications:
- Barbara Prainsack (2026). States of solidarity: How to build a society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Hendrik Wagenaar and Barbara Prainsack (2021). The Pandemic Within: Policy Making for a Better World. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
- Barbara Prainsack (2017). Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century? New York City: New York University Press.
- Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx (2017). Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Barbara Prainsack (2019). Logged out: Ownership, exclusion and public value in the digital data and information commons. Big Data & Society, 6(1).