Short biography

Julia Eder is a Research Associate (Post Doc) at the Institute of the Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) since July 2024. She collaborates in the research projects "Producing the mobility transition“ and F-SET. From October 2015 until September she was a Research Associate (Prae Doc) at the Institute of Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. She holds a PhD in Social and Economic Sciences (major: Sociology) and diploma degrees in ‘Development Studies’ and ‘Romance Studies’.

Research interest

Julia Eder's research focuses on the industrial development in Austria and in the European Union as well as on globally uneven and dependent development in the context of globalisation (e.g. challenges for catch-up industrialisation, characteristics of global production networks). She is particularly interested in the use of industrial and trade policy instruments for promoting a socially just green and digital transformation and to mitigate the effects of economic crises and geopolitical tensions. Therefore, she closely follows the current debates on strategic autonomy and competitiveness. She is particularly interested in the nexus of industry and mobility in the context of the mobility transition. Theoretically, she approaches her research topics from a politico-economic perspective, drawing on dependency school, world-systems analysis, regulation school, and materialist state theory. Methodologically, she has a qualitative focus, drawing mostly on expert interviews and discourse analysis.

• Socio-ecological transformation; global production networks/global value chains; uneven and dependent development; critical political economy; industrial policy; competitiveness; EU trade policy; strategic autonomy; regional economic integration; mobility transition

Teaching experience

Julia Eder acquired teaching experience at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, and the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna. She taught different courses, for example, „Introduction to Sociology“, „Scientific Writing“, „EU Trade Policy and Civil Society Resistance“, „Emerging Markets“ and „European Union Economics“.

• Socio-ecological transformation; global production networks/global value chains; uneven and dependent development; industrial policy and catch-up industrialisation; EU trade policy; regional economic integration; mobility transition; scientific writing