Vera Gallistl holds a position as Assistant Professor of Gerontology and Health Research at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences. She is a sociologist specializing in health and illness, with a research emphasis on ecological and technological sustainability in the health and care sector. Her work explores how vulnerability and care are constructed across various life stages and institutional contexts, examining the impact of societal transformations—such as digitalization and climate change—on the assessment and negotiation of vulnerability. She studies these topics using quantitative and mixed- methods, with a particular focus on ageing and later life.

Before joining Karl Landsteiner University, Vera was a university assistant at the department for Sociology at the University of Vienna and a visiting scholar at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) and Trent University (Canada). She is a founding member of the Socio-Gerontechnology network and the network “Material Gerontology”. Her PhD work has been awarded the sowi:doc grant for outstanding research contributions from the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences.

Since earning her PhD in 2020, Vera has worked on the project "Algorithmic Governance of Care" (funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund and the State of Lower Austria, 2021-2025), investigating bias, explainability, and sustainability of AI in care. Her current research project, "Waste/land/futures – Intergenerational Relations in Places of Abandonment and Renewal across Europe" (funded by VW Stiftung, 2024-2028), examines intergenerational care relations in regions significantly impacted by de-industrialization and climate change.