Professor of Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

Expertise: Socio-cognitive translation studies, embodied cognition, organizational learning, workplace ethnography

Hanna Risku is Professor of Translation Studies and head of the Research Group Socio-Cognitive Translation Studies (socotrans) at the University of Vienna in Austria. Prior to her work in Vienna, she was Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Graz, and Professor of Applied Cognitive Science and Technical Communication, Vice Rector and Head of Department at the Danube University Krems in Austria. In the course of her career, she has also lectured at various universities in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Spain. In 2023, she was CETRA Chair professor at KU Leuven and DOTTSS Guest professor at Tampere University. She is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Her main areas of interest are translation and situated cognition, translation and network analysis, ethnographic studies in translation workplaces, usability and information design.