Sonja Strohmer is a research assistant working at the Department of Industrial Sociology at the University of Vienna on the topic of Foreign Direct Investments and industrial relations in Europe, which is also the topic of her Ph.D. thesis that she is writting.

She was formerly working as a national reporter for the EU agency, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) and as freelance researcher for the Working Life Research Center FORBA on the topics of Corporate Social Responsibility and working conditions in the Austrian business consultancy sector. During the Austrian EU Presidency in 2006, Strohmer worked as project manager at the Office of Science & Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC, where her focus was on assisting in coordinating the EU presidency activities of the OST.

Strohmer studied sociology at the University of Vienna and at the Charles University in Prague. Her main focus was on economic sociology and the sociology of organizations.

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