Lars Kaczmirek

Lars specializes in survey methodology and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Mannheim. He is the co-founder of the journal Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, where he also was the editor for several years. In the past he was responsible for several large surveys of the general population in Germany in the domains of sociology, political science and psychology. He has extensive experience in successfully building new research infrastructures and services from scratch and is passionate about building infrastructure and tools that benefit science and society.

Lisa Hönegger

Lisa is the Deputy Head of AUSSDA and in charge of managing and developing the archive. She is also responsible for legal issues concerning data protection and licenses. Through further projects and working groups, she actively supports the areas of open science and research data management, as well as the development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Lisa graduated in political science, Slavic studies and global studies from the Universities of Vienna, Addis Ababa and Leipzig.

Otto Bodi-Fernandez

As a senior research associate at the Institute of Sociology, Otto represents AUSSDA at the University of Graz and is thus the contact person for all AUSSDA matters in this region. In addition to research and teaching, he supports AUSSDA in data acquisition, offers advice and training on research data management and assists researchers in archiving replication data.

Anita Bodlos

Anita works at the University of Innsbruck at the department for Digital Research Services. For AUSSDA, she mainly focuses on research data management. Anita studied political science (MA) and communication science (BA).

Iris Butzlaff

Iris coordinates the area of data access at AUSSDA, enabling interested researchers to access data. She also supports the team with data curation, as well as with long-term archiving. In addition, she coordinates the data ingest and works closely with depositors as a data curator to make metadata, datasets and documentation findable and reusable in the AUSSDA Dataverse. She also prepares data for long-term archiving to ensure the curated data can be found easily and remains available in the long term. Iris studied economics at the University of Göttingen and the University of Chile and holds a doctorate in economics.

Karin Faktor

Karin studied art history at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and completed the university course Library and Information Studies in 2018. At AUSSDA, her responsibilities include the collection, processing and coordination of metadata for a public opinion research institute. She also supports the data access and curation team and takes care of internal office agendas.

Julia Geistberger

Julia is responsible for AUSSDA's communication affairs and works for the project Infra4NextGen, organizing training events on the reuse of social survey data. She studied political and communication science and graduated in international development (BA) and journalism (MA).

Veronika Heider

Lisa Hirsch

Lisa works in the areas of data ingest and data preparation. She checks the quality of research data and is responsible for their publication. As part of the Infra4NextGen project, she organises and gives training courses in Open Science and data management and creates training materials that can be reused. Lisa studied political science and statistics, and completed her PhD in political science at Aarhus University.

Franziska Krauss

Franziska is repsonsible for communication and supports in business development at AUSSDA. From 2022 until the beginning of 2025, she also worked at OpenAIRE as their Network Outreach and Engagement Officer. Currently, she is working in a project for data dissemination and science communication. Before she joined AUSSDA, she studied political science (MA) and sociology in Munich and Vienna.

Ruth Kreuz

Ruth is a subject librarian and collection manager for economics and sustainability and a Data Steward at the University Library of the Vienna University of Economics and Business / WU University Library. She is the contact person for all AUSSDA matters and reference point for the EOSC Support Office Austria at WU Vienna as well as a member of the expert group “Data Management & Open Science” at ENGAGE.EU. Previously, she worked at the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Austrian Science Fund. Ruth studied Economics (MSc/MA) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Lorenz Makula

Lorenz studied sociology at the University of Graz. At AUSSDA, he is mainly involved in data ingest and data preparation, where he assesses the quality of research data and publishes datasets. In addition, he participates in a CESSDA project for data management and archiving.

Julia Schwab

Julia is a student assistant at the "FAIR-Infopoint" of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. She is the contact person for all requests regarding AUSSDA and research data management at the faculty. In addition, she supports AUSSDA in data acquisition and data processing. She is also involved in setting up the faculty's science communication programme. Julia is currently studying for a Master's degree in sociology - social and political theory at the University of Innsbruck.

Nikolai Soran

Nikolai works at the Main Campus Library (License Management and Scholarly Services) at the University of Linz in the field of research data management and supports AUSSDA in data curation. Nikolai studied history and German at the University of Graz.

Cornelia Wallner

Cornelia works in research management at the University for Continuing Education Krems. She is the contact person for all AUSSDA matters and supports researchers in the creation of data management plans. Cornelia holds degrees in sociology with a focus on law and economics (Mag.rer.soc.oec.) and in communication science (Mag.phil., Dr.phil.). She has many years of experience in empirical social science research from her academic work at various universities in Austria and abroad.

Patrick Wimmer

Patrick is a librarian and data steward for the social sciences at Salzburg University Library. He is the central contact person for all matters regarding AUSSDA and research data management at the University of Salzburg. He studied sociology (MA) at the University of Salzburg and library and information science (MA) at the Humboldt University in Berlin.