Judith Kohlenberger

Judith Kohlenberger is a migration researcher at the Institute for Social Policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She conducts research and teaches in the fields of migration, integration, and belonging. In autumn 2015, she was involved in one of Europe’s first studies on the large refugee movement. Her work has been published in international journals and has been awarded the Kurt-Rothschild-Preis 2019 and the Promotion Award of the City of Vienna. She currently serves as chairwoman of the Integration Council of the City of Vienna and as Secretary General of the Schumpeter Society Vienna. She supports COURAGE – Mut zur Menschlichkeit, an initiative for legal escape routes. Furthermore, she is committed to ensuring that scientific findings are used in public discourse and political decisions. Until today, Judith Kohlenberger published the works Wir (2021) and Das Fluchtparadox (2022), both with Kremayr & Scheriau.