winiwarter has been a member of the commission for interdisciplinary ecological studies at the austrian academy of sciences since october 2006. since may 2010, she has been a corresponding member of the section for the humanities and social sciences of the austrian academy of sciences, and since december 2011 she has been a member of the advisory board of the rachel carson center. furthermore, she has held a seat on the scientific advisory board of the estonian centre for environmental history (kajak) at the institute of history of tallinn university and of the center for environmental and technological history in st. petersburg since 2012.