Oliver Vitouch

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Full Name	Oliver Vitouch
Occupation	University Teacher
Date Of Birth	Apr 4, 1971(1971-04-04)
Age	53
Country	Austria
Birth City	Vienna
Horoscope	Aries

Oliver Vitouch Biography

Oliver Vitouch is one of the most popular and richest University Teacher who was born on April 4, 1971 in Vienna, Austria. Oliver Vitouch (born April 4 1971, in Vienna) was an Austrian psychologist and cognitive scientist from Austria. He has been Rector of the University Klagenfurt since 2012 and as Vice-President as well as President respectively for Universities Austria since 2016.

From January 2015 until May 2016 he was the President of the AARC (Alps- Adriatic Rectors’ Association (AARC) AARC is the society that was established in 1979 in Graz which has 48 members today. institutions that come from Austria, Southern Germany, Hungary, Upper Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Albania. The successor to this position was Dragan Marusic. From January 2016 to January 2017 the Vice-President was in charge as well as from June 2016 to December 2017 as the President (after Sonja Hammerschmid’s transformation into a the federal administration) from Universities Austria, the association of Austria’s Federal research institutions. He was the main participant in the adoption of Austria’s new system of funding for universities (Art. 140 to 141c, and 71a-71d of the Austrian Universities Act). The Austrian University Act does not allow for another presidency, he has been in the role of Vice-President from January

2018. He also been acting President for the second quarter of 2019.

From November 2017 to January 2020, Vitouch wrote for the column Außensicht (German for “outer view”) of Kleine Zeitung, Austria’s largest regional daily. Earlier, he had sporadically contributed to the op-ed page (Kommentar der anderen) of Der Standard since 1996. His main topics were higher education, science, and Enlightenment.

As Vice-President of Universities Austria, Vitouch was significantly involved into the emergence of the initiative Universities for Enlightenment (U4E), sustained by the Rectors’ Conferences of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. This was triggered by the expulsion of the Central European University by the Hungarian government, the governmental reorganization of Hungarian Universities, and the government/university conflicts in Poland and the Czech Republic. The ten Rectors’ Conferences signed the “Vienna Statement” in December 2018.

Oliver Vitouch took office as Rector of the University of Klagenfurt in October 2012. He was re-elected to the post for a second term of four years (2016-2020) on May 15, 2015 as well as for another period (2020-2024) on May 19, 2019.

Oliver Vitouch Net Worth

Oliver Vitouch is one of the richest University Teacher from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oliver Vitouch 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vitouch was a student within The Akademisches Gymnasium Vienna from 1981 to

1989. He then was a student in the Vienna Conservatory from 1986 to 1992. In the University of Vienna, he pursued a degree in psychology (with an emphasis on human biology as well as cognitive neuroscience) and graduated with the master’s degree in 1995, and the doctorate in 1999. He was a postdoctoral associate in the University of Vienna from 1995 as well as an investigator in Gerd Gigerenzer’s Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) located at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin between 2000 and
1990. He has also been instructing at both the Free University of Berlin and the University of St. Gallen. Following his habilitation in psychology was completed, he was appointed an associate instructor in the University of Vienna in 2002 and was promoted to as full professor in Cognitive Psychology in the university of Klagenfurt in 2003.

From 2005 until 2006, Vitouch was the director in from 2005 to 2006, Vitouch was the head of Department of Psychology, and from 2006 until 2012, was Chairman of the university’s Senate (re-elected three times). Vitouch was a member of the Board (2004-2006) and the President (2008-2010) of the Austrian Psychological Association. In his capacity as President, he contributed significantly to the establishment of the university admissions laws (Art. 124b. Now Art. 71c (of the Austrian Universities Act) in result of the decision from the European Court of Justice decreeing an open access policy to Austrian universities, as well as in the case of German students.

On June 9, 2016, a group of identitarians invaded a lecture on inclusion at the University of Klagenfurt. Aiming to keep hold of the squad leader until the police arrives, Vitouch was punched in the stomach. The offender was convicted of aggravated assault on July 12, 2019 by the criminal court in Graz.

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Oliver Ranked on the list of most popular University Teacher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Austria. Oliver Vitouch celebrates birthday on April 4 of every year.