Faculty Medicine
Location Vienna
Field of work
University Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Resume
Dr. Klier completed training as an adult and child psychiatrist as well as a psychotherapist and graduated from the Medical University of Vienna. She spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University in New York City with Myrna M. Weissman, where she began her research career in the field of perinatal psychiatry, particularly focusing on affective disorders following reproductive events. This led her back to the United States twice, where she worked at Drexel University in Philadelphia with Prof. Pamela Geller on the topic of mental health after miscarriage.
Her research interests include perinatal psychiatry, psychopharmacology during pregnancy, and pediatric psychosomatics. More recently, her research has shifted toward the area of infanticide and its prevention. After returning from a sabbatical in Australia, where she worked at ORYGEN at the University of Melbourne in the field of youth mental health prevention, she was appointed Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna in 2013. Over the past 10 years, she has served as Head of the Pediatric Psychosomatic Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of the Vienna General Hospital.
On January 1, 2026, she was appointed University Professor at SFU.
Memberships
10/2025 – present: Member of the Forensic Working Group of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
2020 – present: Member of the Reproductive Mental Health Forensics SIG Section of the International Marcé Society, Steering Committee
2018 – 2023: Secretary General of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
2016 – 2020: Board Member of the International Marcé Society
2015 – present: Member of the Examination Committee of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
2014 – 2015: Member of the Children’s Rights Monitoring Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Family and Youth
2013 – 05/2019: Board Member of the German-speaking Marcé Society
2010 – present: Member of the Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
2008 – 2010: Board Member of the Austrian Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2006 – 05/2019: Representative of the German-speaking Society in the International Marcé Society
2004 – 2010: Head of the Section for Perinatal Psychiatry of the Austrian Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
2004 – 2008: Vice Chair of the Board of the German-speaking Marcé Society
2002 – 2004: Scientific Advisor to the City of Vienna, Department for Women’s Health
2000: Member of the editorial board of the journal Archives of Women’s Mental Health
