Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (PhD in Sociology 1998, Ruhr University Bochum) is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research focuses on sociological theory and the sociology of gender, with particular interests in biopolitics and the sociology of the body.

In December 2025, she was a POLY Short-Term Fellow and delivered a public keynote lecture for the Writing Group “Embodying Christianities” at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg, titled “BodyPracticesWriting: The Challenges of Lived Embodiment.”