Vice-Rector for Education & Diversity

Doris Hattenberger has served as Vice-Rector for Education since 2017.

Doris Hattenberger (*1965) completed both her diploma and her doctoral studies in Law at the University of Vienna and earned her doctorate with a thesis on environmental protection and constitutional law. She also completed a continuing education programme in international relations at the University of Vienna. She has taught and conducted research in the field of public law at the University of Klagenfurt’s Department of Law since 1992, and has held the position of assistant professor there since 2001. She worked in the Constitutional Affairs department at the Office of the Carinthian Government from 2001 to 2002. Her research interests include environmental law, public (including European) economic law, university law, media law and data protection law. In addition to teaching in degree programmes such as Business and Law, Business Administration, Informatics and Media and Communication Studies, as well as in several continuing education programmes at the University of Klagenfurt, she has also taught at the University of Vienna and the University of Leoben. For several years she taught courses at the International University Institute for European Studies in Gorizia (IT). She chaired the Senate of the Austrian Student Grant Authority from 1998 to 2001 and from 2010 to 2015. She has been a member of the Ethics Commission of the State of Carinthia since 2011 and its deputy chair since 2014. She held the position of Rector of Studies at the University of Klagenfurt from 2013 until the end of 2016, before taking on the role of Vice-Rector for Education in early 2017.

In May 2020 and then again in July 2024, the University Council confirmed her appointment for a further term of office.