Please note that the information on the institutes listed below is only partly available in English.
Assigned to the Rectorate
Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health
Head: Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Musalek
Interdisziplinäres Forschungsinstitut für Gesundheitsrecht und -wissenschaft
Head: Prof. Dr. Roland Schlesinger MBA, MPH
E-Mail: roland.schlesinger@sfu.ac.at
Past name: „Department of Health Law & Science“
The institute is currently undergoing restructuring.
Assigned to the Faculty of Psychotherapy Science
Institute for Qualitative Psychotherapy Research
Head: Assoz. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Mörtl
Institute for Psychotextology and Philosophical Psychotherapy Studies
(Before: Institute for Hermeneutic Therapy School Research & Therapy School Dialogue)
Heads: Univ.-Prof. DDr. Kurt Greiner / Ass.-Prof. Dr. MMag. Martin Jandl
Institute for Psychosomatics
Heads: Univ. Prof. Dr. Jutta Fiegl / Assoz. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Mörtl
Institute for Transcultural and Historical Research
Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Steiner
Institute for Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Head: Mag.a Dr.in Gabriela Pap, MSc.
Institute for Psychoanalytic-Ethnological Disaster Research
Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag. DDr. Bernd Rieken
Institute for Mental Health and Business
Head: Mag. Dr. Monika Spiegel
Institute for Behavioural Addictions and Addiction Research
Head: Dr. Dominik Batthyány
Institute for Ageing Research
Head: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Gerald Gatterer
Institute for Futures Research in Human Sciences
Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Reinhold Popp
Institute for Training Research
Heads: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jutta Fiegl
Linz Institute for Basic and Methodological Research
Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Stephenson
Institute for Transgenerational Trauma Transfer Research
Head: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Erzsébet Fanni Tóth
Institute for Security Research and Crisis Management
Head: Mag.(FH) Dr. Gerd HIESS, BSc MSc
Assigned to the Faculty of Psychology
Institute for Statistics
Head: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jan Aden, MSc.
Institute for Qualitative Social Research
Head: Ass.-Prof. Dr.in Katharina Hametner
Institute for Counselling and Management Sciences
Head: Univ.-Ass.in MMag.a Melanie Rückert & Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Benetka
Institute for Future Psychology and Future Management
Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Druyen
Institute for Wealthibility and Wealth Psychology
Director: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Druyen
Freud CanBeLab – Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience and Behavior Laboratory
Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Walla PD
Institute for Health Communication and Prevention
Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. Fred Harms
Institute for RemembranceCulture
Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Benetka
Assigned to the Faculty of Medicine
Institut für Psychosomatik der Medizinischen Fakultät
Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Christiane Eichenberg