Univ. Prof. Dr. habil Franzisca Weder is researching, writing and teaching in the areas of Organizational Communication and Public Relations with a specific focus on Sustainability Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Before joining the Department of Business Communication, Franzisca worked as Associate Professor at University of Queensland (School of Communication and Arts, Brisbane) and University of Klagenfurt (Department for Media and Communication Studies, Austria); as Guest Professor she worked at University of Alabama (USA), University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (GER), University of Waikato (NZ), RMIT (Melbourne, AUS) and University of Ilmenau (GER).

Franzisca Weder is outgoing Chair and now Education Fellow of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) and the Austrian Association for Communication and Media Studies (ÖGK).