Hans Pechar is an associate professor at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF), University of Klagenfurt (Vienna location), and head of the Institut for Science Communication and Research in Higher Education.

His research topics are comparative higher education and economics of higher education. In 1990/1991 he worked as a research associate at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley.

Pechar received his Ph.D. in educational research from the University of Vienna.

• Why Austrian Universities Need a Tenure Track (July 13, 2005)