Elisabeth Lichtenberger

She taught at the University of Vienna, and was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1999.

[1] She was a fellow of the British Academy, a member of Academia Europaea and the Austrian Academy of Sciences,[2] and holder of honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago and Leipzig University.

In 1988, she also founded the Institute for Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Raum und Gesellschaft) of the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF).

[3] From 1985 to 1996 she was president of the Austrian National Committee for the International Geographical Union.