Sylvia Kritzinger is Professor for Methods in the Social Sciences and acting Head of the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. She obtained her PhD in Political Science at the University of Vienna and then held positions as a Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna.
She is one of the principal investigators of the Austrian National Election Study, Director of the Interdisciplinary Value Research Network and runs the digitalisation project ‘Digitize! Computational Social Science in the Digital and Social Transformation’.
Her research focuses on citizens’ political attitudes and voting behaviour, democratic representation and political participation, voting at 16 and survey research. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, Electoral Studies, the British Journal of Political Science, West European Politics and the European Journal of Political Research.
