Hanna Brinkmann is an interdisciplinary oriented art historian with a minor in psychology. Her research areas "art reception and perception", "methods in art history", "eye tracking" and "visitor studies" are embedded in the field of visual culture studies. From 2013-2016 she was a DOCteam-fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2014 she was a visiting researcher at the DFG Research Training Centre "Visibility and Visualization – Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge" at the University of Potsdam and at the School for Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. From 2017-2019 she worked as a postdoc researcher in the Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History (CreA) at the University of Vienna and as PI of the WWTF-project “Wild colors, gentle lines? Engaging with color and line in an interactive children's environment” (Dec. 2019-Dec. 2020). Since Oct. 2019 she is part of the leading team of the structured doctoral programme “Music Matters” at mdw and since Oct. 2022 she is the deputy head of the programme.