Irmtraud Fischer is an Austrian theologian and professor at the Institute of Old Testament Biblical Studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz. From October 2007 to 2011, she was vice-rector with responsibility for research. President of the European Society for Women's Research in Theology, Fischer was given the 2003 Bad Herrenalber Akademie Preis.

She is currently one of the general coordinators of the "Bible and women" project.

​

​