Elisabeth Roehrlich is an Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Vienna's Department of History and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. Her expertise is in twentieth century global and international history, the history of international organizations, the history of the nuclear age and the Cold War, and Austrian contemporary history. She received her PhD in history from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and has held fellowships at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, the German Historical Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (both in Washington D.C.), RWTH Aachen University, and Monash University South Africa. She is the author of a prize-winning book about the former Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky (Kreiskys Außenpolitik, Vienna University Press, 2009), and her writings on the history of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been published in journals such as Diplomacy and Statecraft, Cold War History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, the IAEA Bulletin, and Nature Reviews Physics. Her monograph Inspectors for Peace on the history of the IAEA has been published with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2022. In 2017, the City of Vienna awarded her the prize of best academic achievement in the humanities for a researcher under the age of 40.

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