Karin Waldherr

Since 2017, Karin Waldherr has headed the Research & Development Department and the Certificate Programme Evaluation in the Health, Social and Education Sector at Ferdinand Porsche FernFH, with an emphasis on evaluation and implementation research, research methods, psychometrics, health promotion, prevention and treatment of mental illnesses (especially eating disorders and associated disorders) over the lifespan, e-mental health and overarching questions.

Between 2015 and 2019, she was principal investigator at FernFH and task leader of the stakeholder survey for the Horizon2020 project “ICare - Integrating Technology into Mental Health Care Delivery in Europe”. Since 2012, she has been Chair & Convenor of the International Congress on Eating Disorders in Alpbach/Tyrol (since 2021 together with Gerhard Schüßler, before with Günther Rathner). Waldherr is also Associate Editor at the journal "GIRA - Global Implementation Research and Applications", member of the editorial board of "Digital Psychology" and member of the scientific advisory board of Fonds Gesundes Österreich (FGÖ).

Career path

Since 2017	Head of Research & Development, Programme Director Evaluation in the Health, Social and Education Sector
2014 – 2017	Programme Director BA in Aging Services Management
2013 – 2014	Head of Development Team for the BA in Aging Services Management
2008 – 2013	Key Researcher Evaluation, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Health Promotion Research, Ludwig Boltzmann Society, Vienna
2008 – 2016	External lecturer, Introduction to Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
2008 – 2013	External lecturer, Applied Methodology and Statistics, BA in Business Administration & Psychology, FernFH
2004 – 2008	University Assistant, Department of Methodology, Institute for Basic Psychological Research, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna
2001 – 2004	University assistant (part-time), Department of Methodology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Basic and Integrative Sciences, University of Vienna
1995 – 2000	Contract Assistant, Department of Methodology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Basic and Integrative Sciences, University of Vienna

Education

2003 – 2005	International postgraduate training on the treatment of eating disorders
2001 – 2004	Postgraduate training as clinical psychologist and health psychologist
1995 – 2001	Doctoral studies, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna Topic: Differential Item Functioning analyses using the family of Rasch models
1987 – 1995	Diploma in Psychology, University of Vienna

Memberships of Academic Societies

Austrian Society on Eating disorders (ASED), President
Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), representative of ASED on the “Partnership, Chapter and Affiliate Committee”
DeGEval Evaluation Society
Austrian Society for Public Health (ÖGPH)
European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
German Speaking Implementation Assocation (GSIA)
Global Implementation Society (GIS), founding member, Co-Chair of GIS Journal Committees

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Karin Waldherr

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karin.waldherr@fernfh.ac.at

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