Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Eva Synek Priv. Doz. - Biography
1982-1990: Studies at the University of Vienna (Theology, History and Social Sciences)
1990: Graduation Dr. theol.; lecturer at the University of Vienna
1986: Scholarship of the Rumanian Orthodox Patriarchate for visiting Rumanian Convents
1990: Scholarship of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for language-studies (New Greek) at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece
1990/1991: Research project on the history of catholic communities in Bulgaria
1991-: Research Assistant at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna; since 2004 Assistant Professor
1991-: Editorial responsibility for the Yearbook of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches, Kanon
1991-1999: Editorial responsibility for the journal “Österreichisches Archiv für Kirchenrecht”
1992-1998: Participation in the programme of the European Science Foundation: „Women in the Christian Tradition“
1993/1994: Supplementary studies of Legal Sciences at the University of Salzburg
1996: Founding member of the Austrian Society for Religious Studies (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft)
1996-2009: Member of the Board of the Austrian Society for Religious Studies
1997-2004: Participation in the Research Group of the Norwegian Research Council „Gender and Religion in Formative Christianity and Islam“
1997-1999: Collaboration in the „Cultural Co-operation Agreement between the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and the University of Vienna ,Gender and Religion in Europe‘“
1999/2000: Habilitation at the University of Eichstätt, Germany
1999-2011: General Secretary of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches
2001: Founding member of the Forum für Weltreligionen and the Society for the Study of the Christian East (Gesellschaft for das Studium des christlichen Ostens)
2001-2012: Member of the Board of the Forum für Weltreligionen
2011-1017: Member of the Board of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches
2013; 2014: Guest professor for Orthodox Canon Law in Leuven
2016-: Member of RaT
Main research
- Law of the Eastern Churches, in particular Orthodox Canon Law
- History of Canon Law
- Inter-ecclesiastical Relations
- Legal Gender Studies
Cooperation in scientific operations
Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches