Martina König

Martina König, MA studied English/American Studies and French (teaching degree) with a focus on “Computational Linguistics” at Karl-Franzens University of Graz and graduated with distinction. Her extensive work and teaching experience in higher education as a senior lecturer in various Bachelor's and Master's degree programs spans 25 years to date, at FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences in Graz. Since 2017, she has also been the head of the part-time, postgraduate Master's course “Technical Documentation and Content Management”.

She regularly takes part in national and international conferences as a speaker in order to give presentations to an international audience and to constantly expand her knowledge. She was also appointed as a member of the INTED conference committee in 2019.

She has been an elected teachers' representative of the FH JOANNEUM Academic Board from 2016 to 2024 and also chaired the FH JOANNEUM Board's Personnel Committee from 2016 to 2020. Working together with representatives of students, teaching and research staff and heads of degree programs in this council has therefore not only been familiar to her for a long time, but are also of great pleasure.

Her areas of research and interests include university didactics, curriculum development, English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Lifelong Learning.

In her role as Vice Rector (since 2024), she combines motivational skills, visionary thinking, organizational talent, teamwork, social intelligence and leadership skills. She pays particular attention to maintaining and further developing the high quality of teaching and the didactic demands of higher education.