Petra Schiefer
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Petra Schiefer

Head of the video editorial team

About the author

Coming from South Tyrol, she got stuck in Vienna after her studies. She is living in Mödling in the Viennese outskirts, where she likes exploring the pine woods with her husband and two daughters while at the same time enjoying the vicinity to the metropolis.

I am in Rudolphina because …

... at the University of Vienna, a lot of extremely exiting research is happening, which just needs to be told, and because the researchers’ passion about their work is fascinating and motivating me always anew. For me, it is generally important to give academia a voice in public discourse.