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 |
2014 – 2017 | Programme Director BA in Aging Services Management |
2013 – 2014 | Head of Development Team for the BA in |
2008 – 2013 | Key Researcher Evaluation, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Health |
2008 – 2016 | External lecturer, Introduction to Quantitative Methods, |
2008 – 2013 | External lecturer, Applied Methodology and Statistics, |
2004 – 2008 | University Assistant, Department of Methodology, Institute for |
2001 – 2004 | University assistant (part-time), Department of Methodology, Institute |
1995 – 2000 | Contract Assistant, Department of Methodology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of |
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 |
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
Karin Waldherr