Peter Schweitzer

Prof. Peter Schweitzer is a University Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna's Faculty of Social Sciences, leading the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. A scholar with dual affiliations, he also holds the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His research focuses on the Arctic and Subarctic regions, emphasizing infrastructure's socio-cultural impacts, climate change, and indigenous communities.

Education: Studied Philosophy, Political Science, and Anthropology at the University of Vienna. PhD in Ethnohistory of Northeastern Siberia (1990).

Research Interests: Built environment anthropology, mobilities, remote area studies, climate change adaptation, indigenous rights, and Arctic history. Current projects include permafrost thaw risks and infrastructure's role in socio-environmental dynamics.

Recent Activities: Leads the Snow2School citizen science project and the PERMAFROST-POLLUTION-HEALTH initiative. Serves on advisory boards for the Arctic Human Development Report and the International Arctic Social Sciences Association.

Grants & Labs: Principal investigator on EU-funded projects and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Coordinates the Research Platform for Transformations and Eastern Europe at the University of Vienna.