Simone Uran

Simone Uran (u:cris) is a university assistant at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna. She studied Transcultural Communication and Translation at the University of Vienna and the University of Bologna, graduating with an MA in Conference Interpreting. Her main research interests include legal interpreting, interpreting in prison settings as well as translation and migration.

Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Interpreting Studies at the University of Vienna under the supervision of Mira Kadrić-Scheiber. Her PhD project investigates communication and translation in asylum appeal hearings at the Austrian Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) in Vienna.

She is also a freelance interpreter and translator for German, English, and Italian, and delivers workshops on legal interpreting.