Andrea Leitner is a Senior Researcher in the research group Educational Structures and Educational Opportunities. She has been member of the academic staff at IHS since 1995. She studied Economics and Sociology at the University of Graz, attended a postgraduate course in Sociology at IHS and earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of Vienna in 2005.

Her research interests focus on gender studies at the interface between employment and education and evaluation research. In her work she combines qualitative and quantitative methods including innovative techniques in data collection. She works on gender issues both in academic publications (e.g. on corporate and public gender policy practices, gender analysis, segregation) and in applied research projects (e.g. evaluation of gender equality policies).