Personal

Name: Dr. iur. MAZAL Wolfgang                        Gender: Male

Profession: Professor at University of Vienna

Date and place of Birth:  9.Dezember 1959, Wien

Citizenship:  Austria

Familial status: married, three children, seven grand-children

Education

High school (Gymnasium) and Legal Education in Vienna (Dr. iur. 1981)

Research Fellow financed by the Austrian Foundation for Promotion of Scientific Research at University Bayreuth, Germany (1989/1990)

Habilitation 1991, University Professor 1992

Research

Scientific research, teaching and publication in wide fields of Labor Law, Social Security Law, Medical Law, Legal and Social Aspects of Families.

Research in Comparative Social Politics Europe-Asia: focus Japan, China, Korea

Responsible for the joint research program of Vienna University and Kyoto State University in Labour law and Social politics, more than fourty research and teaching stays in Japan, more than twenty non-scientific stays in Japan

Scientific Advisor under the Strategic Partnership between the Kyoto State University and University of Vienna

Responsible for cooperation between University of Vienna and Chinese University of Political Science (Beijing), several research stays in China

Positions

Director or Deputy Director of the Department of Labor Law and Social Security Law, University of Vienna since 1997

Director of the Austrian Institute for Family Studies, University of Vienna since 2002

Distinguished Visiting Professor at Kyoto University since 2016

Head of the board of trustees, Danube University for higher Education and Lifelong Learning, Krems (Austria) 2009-2019

Vice-President of the Austrian Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation AQ.Austria since 2012

Many other positions of scientific esteem

Memberships

European Academy of Sciences and Arts

International Society of Labor Law and Social Security Law

European Institute of Social Security

Austrian Society of Labor Law and Social Security Law

Austrian Society of Medical Law

Austrian Society of Law and Religion

Contact data

Department for Labor Law and Social Security Law University of Vienna
Schenkenstrasse 8-10/2, 1010 Wien ! +43 1 4277 35609

Austrian Institute for Family Studies, University of Vienna
Grillparzerstrasse 7/9, 1010 Wien ! +43 1 4277 48901

wolfgang.mazal@univie.ac.at, office@mazal.at, www.mazal.at, www.oif.ac.at