Lecturer
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Short biography
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Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Elmar Wilhelm M. Fürst
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Elmar Fürst is an Associated Professor at the institute of Transport and Logistics Management of WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business). He is also Chairman of the Board of the Hilfsgemeinschaft (Austrian Association Supporting the Blind and Visually Impaired), Austrian largest and oldest Association in this domain. His research interests include sustainable mobility and transport as well as accessibility. He is also a Permanent Deacon in the Roman Catholic Church. |
Mag. Daniele Marano
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Mr. Daniele Marano works at the Austrian Association in Support of the Blind and Visually Impaired as a project manager in the field of accessibility and assistive technologies for visually impaired people. He holds a master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Padua (Italy). Having a visual impairment himself, he is convinced of the application possibilities of information and communication technologies and communicates this in lectures and trainings. He is a member of the Austrian Standard Institute in the committee for blind aids and barrier-free planning and building. |
Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Schönfelder
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Stefan Schönfelder has been working in the Accessibility Task Force of the Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) since August 2023. He has spent most of his working life as a mobility researcher at various institutions, such as WIFO (Austrian Institute of Economic Research), BBSR (German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development) and WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). Stefan Schönfelder is originally a trained urban planner from TU Dortmund (1999). He completed his doctorate at the ETH Zurich on the regularities of travel behavior (2007). |
Katja Hanžič
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Katja Hanžič is a project manager at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the University of Maribor. During her career at the University of Maribor, she has worked on many EU projects in the field of mobility and transport. Her most recent work in the field of mobility of passengers with disabilities relates to the improvement of passenger terminals for better accessibility for blind and visually impaired passengers and the seamless integration of external and internal navigation for persons with mobility impairments. |
Stefanie Chwalko, MA
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Stefanie Chwalko works at the Austrian Association in Support of the Blind and Visually Impaired in the project department. She holds a master’s degree in Tourism Leadership from the FH Vienna (Austria). |
Marija Binova
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Marija Binova works in the counselling department of the Austrian Association in Support of the Blind and Visually Impaired. Her areas of activity are legal and social counseling and aid support and counseling. |
Christian Platzer
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Christian Platzer works at the Austrian Association in Support of the Blind and Visually Impaired in the project development department. His working field includes languages and social relationships. |
Mag. Klaus Höckner
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Klaus Höckner is Deputy Director of the Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen/Access Austria, based in Vienna. With more than 7.000 members and about 70 employees it is the leading privately funded organisation helping visually impaired persons in Austria. He works in the field of Accessiblity of ICT since more than 20 years on a national, European and international level in several organisations and bodies. |
Sebastian Belz
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Sebastian finished his studies in spatial planning at the University of Dortmund in 1998. In the 90ies he worked as an Assistant at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy in their Transport Department. In 1999 he founded econex, a German transport consultancy with focus on public transport, transport surveys and revenue and quality management. After 25 years econex has successfully worked on 360+ projects and today comprises 45 employees and around 1.000 freelancers with customers throughout whole Germany and abroad. Since 2001 Sebastian is strongly devoted to establishing the European Platform of Transport Sciences (EPTS) as an international, intermodal and interdisciplinary market place for networking of European transport scientists of all origins. He served in the YFE, the EPTS´ young scientists section, first and from 2010 took over as Secretary General of the non-profit EPTS Foundation e.V., which organises the annual European Transport Congress, the Friedrich-ListAward and acts as lead partner to the Elsevier journal “European Transport Studies”. Sebastian is an experienced senior science networker throughout all European countries and as this implies a lot of physical travelling he became a passionate railroader during the decades. |
