Judith Feichtinger is a Senior Researcher and Project Manager at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI). Her expertise lies in environmental governance, sustainability transitions, policy integration, and stakeholder participation. She works at the intersection of research, policy, and practice, supporting the design and implementation of participatory approaches that foster social innovation and systemic change.

Her thematic areas of expertise include the bioeconomy, climate change adaptation and mitigation, energy transitions, water governance, circular economy, and sustainable rural development. Judith has extensive experience in coordinating and implementing European and national research and innovation projects, as well as in stakeholder engagement, co-creation processes, policy analysis, and science communication. She has contributed to numerous international initiatives addressing societal and environmental challenges, including projects on bio-based value chains, energy citizenship, climate adaptation, and innovation uptake in the water sector.

Judith holds a PhD in Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), where she also worked as a university assistant at the Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy. Alongside her research activities, she continues to teach in BOKU’s Environmental and Bio-Resource Management programme.