Verena Winiwarter
IFF - Fakultät fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung und Fortbildung
der Universitaet. Klagenfurt (Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz)
Schottenfeldgasse 29/Stiege 1/A
1070 Vienna, Austria
verena.winiwarter@uni-klu.ac.at

Verena Winiwarter (*1961, Vienna) is professor of Environmental History at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies of Klagenfurt University in Vienna. After obtaining a degree in technical chemistry, she worked for several years at Vienna's Technical University doing trace analysis of air pollutants. She then acquired a degree in medieval history and communication sciences, and a PhD in environmental history, and subsequently wrote her Habilitation in human ecology at Vienna University. Since 2003 she is head of the Centre for Environmental History of the Institute for Social Ecology in Vienna. Her numerous publications encompass themes from antiquity to the recent past, centred on agro-ecosystems and their history, with a special interest in the history of soils and conceptual issues of interdisciplinary work. She is the author, with Martin Knoll, of the first German textbook for environmental history, Umweltgeschichte. Eine Einführung (UTB Böhlau, 2007).
More information can be found at http://www.iff.ac.at/umweltgeschichte/winiwarter.php