Johanna joined IHS in 2019 and is part of the Competence Center Survey Research. She graduated in Sociology at the University of Vienna and is specialized in quantitative methodology, higher education research, and social inequality.

Her research focuses on the social dimension of higher education, with a special interest in the areas of gender, health and disability. Johanna has comprehensive experience in conducting cross-national graduate surveys and was involved in several rounds of the Austrian Student Social Survey. Johanna’s methodological interests include innovative approaches to data collection and measurement to improve the representation and analysis of marginalized populations in large-scale studies. She uses a critical quantitative research perspective to make survey research practices more inclusive.