Mag. Dr. Lucia Gassner

Lucia Gassner has been working as a Senior Researcher at AIHTA since June 2020. Additionally, since 2020, she has been active as a Lecturer in Public Health at the Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU) Salzburg. She primarily works on projects in the fields of public health interventions to support evidence-based policy decisions in healthcare and high-tech medicine (evaluation of individual medical procedures). Her current thematic research focus is on mental health and digital health.

She holds academic degrees in educational science, graduating in 2011 from the University of Vienna. Furthermore, she completed her PhD theses in 2023 at RMIT University Melbourne (Biomedical Engineering) and at the University of Vienna (Sport Science), where she investigated the impacts of sport climbing on the quality of life in Parkinson’s patients.

Prior to joining AIHTA, she worked in clinical trials at the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna. Additionally, she operated as a process manager and medical training therapist at the Vocational Education and Rehabilitation Centre, and as a project manager and consultant at the Austrian Ministry of Education.