Faculty Psychotherapy Science
E-mail
rp@reinhold-popp.at Locations Vienna, Linz
Field of work
Lecturer
Head of Institute for Futures Research in Human Sciences
Resume
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Reinhold Popp (*1949) completed doctoral studies (education, political science, psychology, philosophy) as well as training in psychotherapy (IP) and further training in clinical psychology and health psychology. After his habilitation (1986), he headed future science-oriented research centres in Salzburg and Vienna as well as a doctoral programme (“Future – Education – Quality of Life”) at the University of Innsbruck until 2013. Since 2014, he has been a guest researcher at the “Institut Futur” of the University of Excellence FU Berlin and teaches at the master’s programme for futurology located there. At SFU Vienna he heads the “Institute for Futures Research in Human Sciences” and since 2019 he has also been deputy director of the PTW doctoral programme.
Teaching focus: futures and innovation research in the human and social sciences; history of science, theory of science & research methodology; theoretical foundations of psychodynamic concepts; research management; quality of life – in the field of tension between the individual and society.