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Associate Professor Anna-Theresa Renner, opens an external URL in a new window has been assigned to the Institute for Spatial Planning, opens in new window (E280) at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, opens an external URL in a new window as Associate Professor for Social Infrastructure Research and Planning since 1 December 2025.

CV: Anna-Theresa Renner comes from Upper Austria and studied economics at the University of Vienna. She then completed a master's degree in Health Economics, Policy and Law, opens an external URL in a new window at Erasmus University Rotterdam from 2010 to 2011. Back in Vienna, she held positions at Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, the Centre for Health and Migration and, finally, from 2016 at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she also obtained her doctorate in 2020 with a dissertation on “Waiting time, avoidable hospitalisations and patient mobility: The economics of healthcare access, opens an external URL in a new window” (her dissertation was awarded the Science Prize of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour). In October 2020, Anna-Theresa Renner took up a tenure track position in ‘Social Infrastructure Research and Planning’ at TU Wien's Institute of Spatial Planning. From 2021 to 2022, she was also a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University. Research stays also took her to Milan (Bocconi) and York (Centre for Health Economics), funded by the Schumpeter Fellowship and EU COST networks, among others.

Her academic home is the Research Area of Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy (E280-03). Her research focuses on health economics and social infrastructure, specifically on spatial accessibility and how it affects population health and patient mobility. She also works on projects investigating the impact of extreme heat waves on workplace accidents in Austria and the efficient organisation of the hospital sector.

Publications by Anna-Theresa Renner in the Scopus, opens an external URL in a new window database and in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.