Personal Information:
Date of Birth: 26.9.1964
Place of Birth: Vienna
Citizenship: Austria
Education:
1984 A-Level
1984 Study of Psychology at the University of Vienna
1985–1995 Study of Biology/Behavioural Biology at the University of Vienna
1989-1996 Study of Informatics at the Technical University of Vienna
1995 Graduation; Master Thesis on “Steroids and Song Learning in the Chaffinch”
1995–1997 Doctorate- Study at the University of Vienna
1998 Promotion to Dr. rer nat. at the University of Vienna; Thesis on “Quality of Movement in Courtship Behaviour”.
Professional Career:
1991-1992 Employee at the Department of Zoology of the University of Vienna
1992-1995 Grant financed research work at the Department of Zoology of the University of Vienna
1995-1997 Employed on the FWF financed Research Project “Towards Pigeons Categorization” coordinated by Dr. Ludwig Huber.
1996-1998 Employed on the Project “Quality of Movement in Courtship behaviour” funded by the Austrian National Bank
1997-1999 Employed in the Logistic Centre of the University of Vienna as representative of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Vienna during reorganisation process.
2000- 2003 Assistant of the Rector’s team at the University of Vienna
2004-2011 Staff of the Rector’s office of the University of Vienna with the focus on strategic planning, quality assurance, contract management and organizational change and benchmarking.
2004-2008 Head of the Office of the Rectorate of the University of Vienna.
From 2009 on:Advisor of the Rectorate of the University of Zagreb in ongoing university reforms in Croatia with a special focus on change management, organization and strategic planning. Half time scientist at the Department of Anthropology and strategic consultant of the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna.
2012 Habilitation in Anthropologyat the University of Vienna – Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology
2016 since Jan. 2016 cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Interior, Section Migration on “Evolutionary basics of Human Migration”
2017 since August 2017, Associated Professor for Evolutionary Demography
2019 November: Research stay at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane
2020 since Jan. 2020 Member of the Research Center “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society” at the Catholic Faculty of the University of Vienna
Editorial Function: since July 2015, Associated Editor in Frontiers of Psychology in the section “Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience”
Reviewing:
Proceedings B
Biology Letters
American Journal of Human Biology
Evolution and Human Behavior
Population Studies, a Journal of Demography
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Marriage and the Family
Health
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Teaching
030622 VO Evolution und biologische Grundlagen menschlichen Verhaltens (Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Wahlfach Strafrecht)
300047 UE Mathematisch – statistische Übungen für Anthropologen
300084 SE Bachelorseminar für Studierende des Lehramtsstudiums Biologie und Umweltkunde
300169 SE Departmentseminar Anthropologie
300431 VO Evolution und menschliche Organisation
300084 SE Bachelorseminar für Studierende des Lehramtsstudiums Biologie und Umweltkunde
300189 VO Verhaltensgenetik
300338 SE Evolutionäre Demographie
Betreuung derzeit von ca. 7 Masterarbeiten
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martin Fieder