Patricia F. Zauchner, PhD
Current Position and Education
| Since September 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Potsdam |
| April 2023 | PhD in Social Sciences, University of Bremen |
| February 2016 | M.A. in Sociology, University of Vienna |
| May 2011 | B.A. in Sociology, University of Vienna |
Teaching Experience
| Behavioral Economics (Spring 2026) |
| Decision Support Systems (Spring 2024 & Spring 2025), Session on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), course by Prof. Dr. Dr. Björn Niehaves, Dr. Marc Wyszynski, Dr. Gerhard Klassen, Sebastian Weber, MSc |
| Introduction to Academic Research and Writing in Political Science (Fall 2021/22 & Fall 2016/17) |
| Principles of Distributive Justice (Spring 2021) |
| Reading Rawls (Spring 2021 & Spring 2018) |
| Meeting, Assembly, Protest: Theory and Practice of Collective Action, Deliberation and Decision-Making (Fall 2017/18) with Dr. Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele & Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier |
| The Unconditional Basic Income (Spring 2017) |
| Various Statistics Tutorials (2009–2015, with interruptions) |
Publications
Zauchner, P. F. (2024). Raising the acceptance of rank reversing redistributions: The role of need considerations. Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45085-4
Ceron, T., Barić, A., Blessing, A., Haunss, S., Kuhn, J., Lapesa, G., Padó, S., Papay, S., & Zauchner, P. F. (2024). Automatic analysis of political debates and manifestos: Successes and challenges. In P. Cimiano, A. Frank, M. Kohlhase, & B. Stein (Eds.), Robust argumentation machines: First international conference, RATIO 2024, Bielefeld, Germany, June 5–7, 2024, proceedings (pp. 71–88). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63536-6_5
Pritzlaff-Scheele, T., Zauchner, P. F., & Nullmeier, F. (2024). Deliberation and need-based distribution. In B. Kittel & S. Traub (Eds.), Priority of needs? An informed theory of need-based justice (pp. 151–176). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53051-7_6
Pritzlaff-Scheele, T., & Zauchner, P. F. (2017). Meeting needs: An experimental study on need-based justice and inequality (FOR 2104 Working Paper 2017-07). https://epub.sub.uni-ham-burg.de/epub/volltexte/202h0/100422/