Ivo Ponocny

Short Bio

Ivo Ponocny is part of the Department for Sustainability, Governance, and Methods at MODUL University Vienna. He started his career at the Institute for Psychology of the University of Vienna where he developed goodness-of-fit tests for the Rasch model, for which he was awarded the Gustav A. Lienert prize of the German Psychological Society. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Psychology and an MSc in Mathematics and has a habilitation in Psychological Methodology. After an employment at Statistics Austria where he was head of the unit “Social Statistics and Education” and later “Science, Technology, and Education” he joined MODUL University Vienna in September 2007.

Research interests:

Ivo Ponocnys current main research focus lies on quality-of-life and its drivers and assessment, in particular the MODUL Study of Living Conditions, a mixed-methods pilot project about the link between life circumstances and subjective well-being. Further research interests are social and environmental psychology, statistics in general, especially non-parametric procedures, and the methodology of international educational studies such as PISA and PIAAC. Teaching activities include statistics and scientific methodology, decision theory, social sustainability and quality of life and its links to social psychology.