Doris Damyanovic

Doris Damyanovic has served as Vice-Rector for Teaching, Continuing Education, and Students at BOKU University since April 2023. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic development and quality assurance of teaching, continuing education, and internationalisation. She has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Landscape Planning since 2017, specializing in Sustainable Landscape Planning and Gender Planning.

Doris studied Landscape Planning and Management at BOKU, graduating in 1997. She subsequently worked in landscape planning and nature conservation for five years before earning her doctorate in 2006 and completing her habilitation in 2016. Guest research appointments took her to Leibniz University Hannover (2011) and Technical University Berlin (2022). Her research and teaching focus on climate-adapted landscape and urban planning, gender-sensitive planning, risk governance, and interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary participatory processes, carried out in close cooperation with local authorities and civil society.

In the field of natural hazard management, Doris is particularly interested in how gender- and diversity-sensitive approaches strengthen resilience, how nature-based solutions are implemented, and how evidence-based participatory processes improve decision-making.

Doris is a founding member of we4DRR and is strongly committed to enhancing the visibility, networking, and leadership of women in DRR, while building bridges between science, practice, and policy. As a member of the Steering Committee, she promotes quality assurance in university and continuing education, knowledge transfer, and equal opportunities in practice. She contributes her expertise in gender mainstreaming, mentoring, network building, and translating research into implementable measures at the local level.