Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (born 1968) is a German-Argentine sociologist. She is a professor of general sociology and gender studies at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

(LMU) and president of the

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Career

Villa Braslavsky was born in

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and grew up in Argentina, Chile, USA, Canada, and Germany. She is a daughter of the chemist

Silvia Braslavsky Silvia Elsa Braslavsky (born April 5, 1942 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chemist. She is the daughter of educationist and biochemist Lázaro Braslavsky, and the sister of Cecilia Braslavsky, educationist and erstwhile director of the Internat ...

and a grandchild of the educator Berta Perelstein de Braslavsky. She moved to Germany with her mother and sister in 1976. She studied social sciences in Bochum and Buenos Aires. She worked at the

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before she became professor of general sociology and gender studies at LMU. She was director of the Department of Sociology at LMU from 2010 to 2012. In 2021 she became president of the

. She has served on its board since 2013. She is also a board member of the Gender Studies Association in Germany. Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies Association
''Vorgängige Vorstände: Vorstand 2012–2014.''
I: ''fg-gender.de.'' 2020.

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German sociologists Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 1968 births Living people {{Germany-sociologist-stub