Franziska Windisch is a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna since November 2023. Previously, she was a research fellow in the project "Perceptions and Politicization of Wealth Inequality" and associated with the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz. Franziska studied Political Science at the University of Vienna and worked as a student assistant at the Department of Government. 

Her research interests revolve around Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Politics and Austrian Politics. In particular, she works on the politics of (re)distribution, on political parties and interest groups, and on (semi-)automated text analysis.