Franziska Bruckner is head of the Research Group Media Creation at St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, project lead of FFG AR/VR Project Immersive Media Lab, FWF PEEK project VRinMotion and GFF NÖ project Climate Media Frames. She is a curator and organizer of the international symposium series Animafest Scanner and coordinator of the working group Animation of the German Society for Media Studies. Her education includes master-degrees in painting and animated film at the University for Applied Arts Vienna and in Theater, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, where she worked as a University Assistant from 2009 to 2013. In 2017 she earned her doctorate which was awarded with the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Award. She was a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg among others. Since 2021 she is mother of a son. Her research focuses on experimental film, hybrids of animation and live-action films, animation in virtual and augmented environments, and the connection between art and film.