Michaela Moser is based in Vienna and currently employed as a lecturer and researcher at the Ilse-Arlt-Institute on Social Inclusion Research at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten/Austria with a special interest on issues of poverty and inequalites, inclusion, participation and self-organisation and Democracy development.

She holds master degrees in theology and public relations and a PhD in philosophy, has lectured at various universities, has been activist with a number of NGOS and civils Society initiatives, above all the Austrian and European Anti Poverty Network, and preferably works at the interface between education, empowerment, activism and research.