Teaching

I am teaching in the BA, MA, and PhD programs of political science at the University of Innsbruck (you can access the course catalogue here) as well as in study programs at the Vienna School of International Studies (Diplomatische Akademie Wien). In these programs I am offering introductory IR courses, advanced IR courses (in particular on order in world politics), advanced courses on academic writing, and simulations.

In my teaching, I am committed to experimenting with new ideas and didactic tools. Together with my BA-students, for example, I have developed the “AUTside” podcast channel. To this channel I regularly add episodes that students develop a seminar on Austrian foreign and security policy.

I am also supervising BA- and MA-theses as well as PhD projects. Ongoing PhD projects, in which I am first or second supervisor, are:

• Katja Astner: State Advocacy for Nuclear Disarmament (StAND). 1^st supervisor Martin Senn, 2^nd supervisor Franz Eder (University of Innsbruck). Funded by the DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

• Oleksandra Terentyeva: Politics of memory as a practice of decolonization. 1^st supervisor Julia Mourão Permoser (University of Vienna), 2^nd supervisor Martin Senn. Funded by the DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

• Anna Saischek: The Politics of Problem Formation: The Case of Nuclear Security. 1^st supervisor Martin Senn, 2^nd supervisor Carmen Wunderlich (University of Duisburg-Essen).

• Anna Stock: Citizens’ Attitudes on Foreign Policy and International Order: Developing, Validating and Implementing Instruments for Measurement. 1^st supervisor Martin Senn, 2^nd supervisor Franz Eder (University of Innsbruck).

Three PhD-projects were finished under my (co-)supervision as of February 2026:

• Christian Schwaderer: Making sense in times of crises: A comparative study on public perception of risks and information dissemination during the COVID-19 pandemic. 1^st supervisor Martin Senn, 2^nd supervisor Lore Hayek (University of Innsbruck).

• Susanne Reitmair-Juárez: What’s (in their) news? Personalized online news use and its implications for adolescents’ political participation. 1^st supervisor Lore Hayek (University of Innsbruck), 2^nd supervisor Martin Senn. Funded by the Tyrolean Parliament.

• Trix van Mierlo: Does the Barking Dog Bite? Civil Society Efforts to Subnational Authoritarian Enclave Democratization (see the publication in International Political Science Review, which also received the 2022 Best Paper Award of the University of Innsbruck). 1^st supervisor Ludger Helms (University of Innsbruck), 2^nd supervisor Martin Senn.