Research Groups:
- Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics
- Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology
- Environmental Change and Biodiversity
- Evolutionary Anthropology
- Evolutionary Zoology and Palaeobiology
- Limnology
- Molecular Evolution and Development
- Molecular Systems Biology
- Plant Evolutionary Biology
- Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
- Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity
Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics:
Maximilian Dreer
Supervisor: Christa Schleper
Thesis topic:
Jéssica Carolina Gomes da Silva
Johannes Ben Herpell
Angus Samuel Hilts
Supervisor: Filipa Sousa
Topic: The Oxygen Gambit: How life risked the reactivity of oxygen for energetic gain
Michael Melcher
Supervisor: Christa Schleper
Topic: Metabolism and Physiology of mesophilic and thermophilic Thaumarchaeota
Anastasiia Padalko
Supervisor: Filipa Sousa
Topic: Metabolic traits prediction and validation in Archaea
Hayk Palabikyan
Supervisor: Simon Rittmann
Topic: Converting carbon dioxide into bioplastics
Thomas Pribasnig
Supervisor: Schleper Christa
Topic: Energy and carbon metabolism of Nitrososphaeria
Barbara Reischl
Tobias Viehböck
Erika Wimmer
Supervisor: Christa Schleper
Topic: Alternative functions of type III-B CRISPR-Cas systems beyond antiviral defense
Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology:
Sebastian Valerio Aymerich
Michaela Berensmeier
Eva Breyer
Salvador Espada-Hinojosa
Alexandra Haselmair
Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
Topic: Historical ecology of the northern Adriatic sea: spatial and temoral distribution of the high biomass epifauna
Angelina Ivkic
Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
Topic: Red Sea coral reefs: A Pleistocene - Recent comparison
Bianca Lintner
Supervisor: Petra Heinz , Martin Zuschin
Topic: Recent deep-sea foraminifera assemblages in the NE Atlantic
Petra Lukeneder
Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
Topic: Morphometry, taphonomy and geochemistry of late Triassic coleoids from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte near Lunz am See (Carnian, Reingraben shales, Lower Austria).
Giulia Marchioro
Daniel Martinovic Saavedra
Supervisor: Federico Baltar
Topic: The role of enzyme promiscuity on organic phosphorus cycling in the ocean
Magdalena Reitbauer
Supervisor: Federico Baltar
Topic:
Katherine Jennifer Salazar Alekseyeva
Teresa Maria Rosa Winter
Environmental Change and Biodiversity
Michaela Berensmeier
Florian Danzinger
Andreas Gattringer
Michael Glaser
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl
Topic: Past, Present and Future Weeds - Changes in the Arable Flora of Central Europe Under Climate and Land Use Change
Alexandra Haselmair
Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
Topic: Historical ecology of the northern Adriatic sea: spatial and temoral distribution of the high biomass epifauna
Norbert Helm
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger, Karl Hülber, Dietmar Moser, Johannes Wessely
Topic: Linking the micro- with the macroscale in alpine plant ecology
Angelina Ivkic
Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
Topic: Red Sea coral reefs: A Pleistocene - Recent comparison
Ekin Kaplan
Supervisor: Franz Essl
Topic:
Chytrý Kryštof
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger
Topic: Effects of microclimate on distribution patterns of high alpine flora
Bianca Lintner
Supervisor: Petra Heinz , Martin Zuschin
Topic: Recent deep-sea foraminifera assemblages in the NE Atlantic
Petra Lukeneder
Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
Topic: Morphometry, taphonomy and geochemistry of late Triassic coleoids from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte near Lunz am See (Carnian, Reingraben shales, Lower Austria).
Ana Isabel Martinez Richart
Janine Oettel
Supervisor: Franz Essl, Martin Gossner
Topic: Modelling drivers of deadwood amount, decomposition and residence time taking into account the occurrence of deadwood-inhabiting insects in Austrian forests
Clemens Pachschwöll
Supervisor: Franz Essl
Topic: Detecting ‘invaders in disguise’ DNA barcoding of invasive plant species in Austria
Sonia Rashid
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger
Topic: Modelling climate-driven range changes of European butterflies and their host plants - do transient dynamics matter?
Parvin Safiyan Böldaji
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger
Topic: Habitat suitability of the Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) and its primary prey species in north-eastern Iran
Anna Schertler
Supervisor: Franz Essl
Topic: Macroecological perspectives in invasion biology – examining drivers of fungal and plant invasion patterns and processes
Tom Vorstenbosch
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl
Topic: Modelling the future of biological invasions in the sub-Antarctic under climate change
Evolutionary Anthropology
Magdalena T. Srienc-Ściesiek
Supervisor: Sylvia Kirchengast, Sabine Ladstätter
Topic: Lifeways of the early medieval Slavs: A bioarchaeological examination of diet and health based on the human remains from three cemeteries north and south of the Karawanken Mountains
Jeannette Becker
Tobias Göllner
Supervisor: Martin Fieder, Helmut Schaschl
Topic: The Peopling of Asia: Genetic Ancestry, Population Structure, Demography and Natural Selection
Evolutionary Zoology and Palaeobiology
Katharina Wechselberger
Supervisor: Harald Krenn
Topic: Analysis of the main factors influencing the behavior of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) as a basis for the optimization of available crop protection measures on arable land
Manuel Andreas Staggl
Claudia Klimpfinger
Carlos Fernando De Gracia
Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet
Topic: Cretaceous Fossil Record of Northern South American fishes (Actinopterygii) in Global context During the Oceanic Anoxic Events
Limnology
Alice Retter
Supervisor: Christian Griebler, Fede Baltar, Henrik Nilsson
Topic: Vulnerability and response of microbial groundwater communities in alpine regions to anthropogenic impacts and climate change.
Marina Ivanković
Pamela Alessandra Baur
Supervisor: Stephan Glatzel
Topic: Greenhouse gas exchanges of special wetland ecosystems in Austria
Raphael Müller
Supervisor: Stephan Glatzel
Topic: Vulnerability and response of microbial groundwater communities in alpine regions to anthropogenic impacts and climate change.
Marina Ivanković
Pamela Alessandra Baur
Supervisor: Stephan Glatzel
Topic: Greenhouse gas exchanges of special wetland ecosystems in Austria
Molecular Evolution and Development
Tatiana Lebedeva
Lisa Rouressol
Molecular Systems Biology
Carlos A. Pérez Rízquez
Labgruppe
Supervisor: Stefanie Wienkoop
Topic: Underlying mechanism(s) of the symbioprotein ferritin on legume root nodule formation and drought stress
Yovita Astuti Djohan
Labgruppe
Supervisor: Stefanie Wienkoop
Topic: Stress-induced Pea-omics: Messire vs. Protecta
Plant Evolutionary Biology
Constantin Kopper
Supervisor: Jürg Schönenberger, Agnes Dellinger
Topic: Pollinations syndromes, pollinator shifts and floral evolution in Melastomataceae