Irene Forstner-Müller is Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo. She is head of Tell el-Dab'a (Auaris), one of the most important excavations in Egypt. Since 2005 she has also been teaching at the University of Vienna.

Irene Forstner-Müller is a Visiting Fellow at CAS in July 2017 upon invitation from Prof. Dr. Karen Radner in the context of the CAS Research Focus "Settlements".