The Austrian Academy of Sciences awards scholarships to outstanding graduates of a doctoral or PhD program in the humanities, social and cultural sciences who are pursuing an academic career in order to facilitate the transition to the post-doctoral phase. In 2024, INCHER member Magdalena Fellner is one of the post docs awarded with this scholarship.

Dr. Magdalena Fellner has been a Senior Researcher at the INCHER research area "Students and Graduates" since March 2024. From 2019 to 2024, she worked as a Senior Scientist and Course Director at the Department of Higher Education Research at the University for Continuing Education Krems. As part of her dissertation entitled "Studierfähigkeit als soziales Konstrukt. Einschränkung und Erweiterung kollektiver Möglichkeitsräume durch zugrunde liegende Verständnisse“", she analyzed and deconstructed the concept of "study ability" from a historical-comparative perspective.