Erich Griessler

Dr. Erich Griessler is a Senior Researcher at Institut für Höhere Studien.
Since 1999 he has worked as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.
Since 2016 he has been head of the research group “Techno-Science and Societal Transformation.” From 2011 to 2013, he acted as Vice President of the Austrian Society of Sociology.
From 2007 to 2013, he was a speaker in the section Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologie of the Austrian Society of Sociology.
From 1995 to 1999, he worked as a junior researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Medicine and Health Sociology in Vienna.
From 1990 to 1992, he worked as a scientific collaborator at the University of Vienna.
He studied Sociology and History at the University of Vienna (1983–1990) and the Maastricht University.
In 1990, he graduated as a Magister of Philosophy (Thesis: “Problems of Controlling Polycentric Societies”).
From 1992 to 1995, he worked on a dissertation scholarship at the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf, Department for Technological Research.
In 1992/1993 he conducted research at the Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, NL.
In 1995, he took his doctorate (Dissertation: “Technology Foresight as Organizational Innovation in Public Administration.
A Comparison between Austria and the Netherlands”).