Prof. Sylvia Kirchengast

University of Vienna, Austria

TOPIC – Growth and Development in Times of Climate Change

Sylvia Kirchengast (Ph.D.) is currently professor of Anthropology/Human Biology at the department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna, where she has been a faculty member since 1994. She gave guest lectures at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2012 she is study program director for Biology at the University of Vienna. She completed her Ph.D. (Human Biology) as well as her undergraduate studies (Biology, Cultural Anthropology) at the University of Vienna. 1998 she completed her Habilitation for Human Biology and Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She was involved in several international and national scientific projects. She was part of the emerging field project “Comparative Human life history” at the University of Vienna. From 2000 to 2005 she was board member of the German Anthropological Society. From 2013 to 2017 she was deputy head of the German Anthropological Society. She founded the Working Group Biological Genders Studies within the German Anthropological Society and was member of the Gender and Agency Group at the University of Vienna. From 2012 to 2022 she was deputy head of the Bioethical committee of the University of Vienna. She published more than 300 papers and book chapters. Her research interests lie in the area of Evolutionary life history, in particular female life history, menopause, Growth studies, Fetal development, Childhood obesity, Evolutionary medicine, Public Health, Migration and Health, Bioarcheology and Gender studies.