Gottfried Schweiger is a trained philosopher and works at the Center for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) as a Senior Scientist since 2011. At the CEPR he was also the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project "Social Justice and Child Poverty", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), from 2014 to 2017. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood (both with Palgrave Macmillan). Gottfried is co-founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie and of the Springer Book Series Philosophy and Poverty. He is also associate editor of Palgrave Communications.

Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Childhood, and Poverty Research