Antonia Baumann - Researcher (praedoc)

Antonia Baumann holds an MA in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Graz and is currently working as a graduate research assistant on the third-party funded research project Rethinking Translation Expertise: A Workplace Study (RETREX), led by Hanna Risku. She is also completing a PhD thesis within the project, focusing on feedback in the translation industry. Her research interests include sociological and socio-cognitive aspects of translation/interpreting, workplace research, and accessibility. Additionally, she works as a freelance Speech-to-Text Interpreter.

Manuel Franco - Student Assistant

Manuel Franco holds a BA Transcultural Communication and is currently studying Romance Languages at the University of Vienna. Since February 2025, he is Prof. Hanna Risku's student assistant, supporting her education and research endeavours.

Kerstin Pasterk - Student Researcher

Kerstin Pasterk holds a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology as well as a BA in Transcultural Communication. She is currently completing an MA in Technical Translation at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. From February 2023 to February 2024, she was working as a student assistant to Prof. Hanna Risku and collaborating in the research project Rethinking Translation Expertise: A Workplace Study (RETREX).

Elisa Permanschlager - Organisational Assistant

Elisa Permanschlager holds a BA in Transcultural Communication and is currently pursuing an MA in Dialogue Interpreting at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. From October 2021 to December 2024, she has been working as a student assistant to Prof. Hanna Risku, with a one-year break for an Erasmus study period in Spain. In addition, she has been actively involved in the Student Union of the Centre for Translation Studies since 2020, where she is a student representative. Currently, she is also working as an organisational assistant to Prof. Hanna Risku.

Hanna Risku - Head of Research Group

Hanna Risku is Professor for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna in Austria and Project leader of the research project Rethinking Translation Expertise: A Workplace Study (RETREX). Prior to her work in Vienna, she was Professor for Translation Studies at the University of Graz and Professor for Applied Cognitive Science and Technical Communication, Vice Rector and Head of Department at the Danube University Krems in Austria. In the course of her career, she has also lectured at various universities in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Spain. Her main areas of interest are the cognitive scientific foundations of translation, situated cognition, translation networks, ethnographic field research and workplace research of translation, and translation as computer-supported cooperative work.

Hanna Risku's detailed CV can be downloaded.

Regina Rogl - Researcher (postdoc)

Regina Rogl holds a PhD in Translation Studies / Transcultural Communication and is currently working as a Post-Doc Researcher at the Vienna Centre for Translation Studies. She is also an Associate Researcher on the third-party funded research project Rethinking Translation Expertise: A Workplace Study (RETREX), led by Hanna Risku. Previously, she was involved in the research project Extended translation: Socio-cognitive translation processes in the workplace (EXTRA) at the University of Graz, and has completed a PhD thesis on the interplay between the social and the technological in online amateur translation at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include digital translation practices, socio-technical conceptualizations of translation, non-professional translation/interpreting, and workplace research.

Daniela Schlager - Researcher (praedoc)

Daniela Schlager holds an MA in Translation and is currently working as a graduate research assistant on the third-party funded research project Rethinking Translation Expertise: A Workplace Study (RETREX), led by Hanna Risku. From 2018 to 2022 she worked as a graduate research and teaching assistant at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. In her PhD thesis, she explores translators' personal goals as a dimension of translatorial agency. Her research interests include sociological, socio-cognitive, political and historical aspects of translators and translation.