Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics:

Maximilian Dreer

Supervisor: Christa Schleper

Thesis topic: Biofilm formation and transformation of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea

Tobias Viehböck

Supervisor: Silvia Bulgheresi

Thesis topic: Compaction and organization of animal symbiont chromosomes

Angus Samuel Hilts

Supervisor: Filipa Sousa

Topic: The Oxygen Gambit: How life risked the reactivity of oxygen for energetic gain

ORCID

Erika Wimmer

Supervisor: Christa Schleper

Topic: Alternative functions of type III-B CRISPR-Cas systems beyond antiviral defense

ResearchGate

Anastasiia Padalko

Supervisor: Filipa Sousa

Topic: Metabolic traits prediction and validation in Archaea

ResearchGate

Barbara Reischl

Supervisor: Simon Rittmann

Thesis topic: Physiological and biotechnological characteristics and application possibilities of archaeal co and pure cultures

Hayk Palabikyan

Supervisor: Simon Rittmann

Topic: Converting carbon dioxide into bioplastics

Thomas Pribasnig

Supervisor: Schleper Christa

Topic: Energy and carbon metabolism of Nitrososphaeria

Val Karavaeva (they/he)

Supervisor: Filipa Sousa

Topic: Rings of life and where to find them: evolution of tetrapyrroles


Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology:

Sebastian Valerio Aymerich

Supervisor: Monika Bright

Topic: Dynamics of the Giant Ciliate Symbiosis: An Omics Study

Michaela Berensmeier

Supervisor: Martin Zuschin

Topic: Paloenvironmental changes of a shallow-water ecosystem in the Northern Adriadic Sea: Development of the community composition and its taphonomy

ResearchGate

Eva Breyer

Supervisor: Monika Bright, Franz Berthiller, Christian Griebler

Topic: Oceanic fungal ecology and biogeochemistry

Salvador Espada-Hinojosa

Supervisor: Silvia Bulgheresi

Topic: A cultivation and population genetics approach to study transmission and maintenance of the thiotrophic Candidatus Thiobius zoothamnicola - Zoothamnium niveum symbiosis

Alexandra Haselmair

Supervisor: Martin Zuschin

Topic: Historical ecology of the northern Adriatic sea: spatial and temoral distribution of the high biomass epifauna

ResearchGate

Angelina Ivkic

Supervisor: Martin Zuschin

Topic: Red Sea coral reefs: A Pleistocene - Recent comparison

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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).

ResearchGate

Giulia Marchioro

Supervisor: Luise Kruckenhauser, Pedro Frade, Igor Adameyko, Cecilia D'Angelo

Topic: Functional diversity of coral fluorescent proteins in mesophotic reefs

Philipp Pröts

Supervisor: Jörg Ott

Topic: Morphological adaptations to the symbiotic life-style of Stilbonematinae (Desmodoroidea, Nematoda)

Daniel Martinovic Saavedra

Supervisor: Federico Baltar

Topic: The role of enzyme promiscuity on organic phosphorus cycling in the ocean

Marilena Heitger

Supervisor: Gerhard Herndl

Topic: Shedding light on dark ocean’s detrital particles: origin, composition, and age

Teresa Maria Rosa Winter

Supervisor: Monika Bright

Topic: Ecology of Zoothamnium assemblages on experimental shallow water wood falls

Dmytro Spriahailo

Supervisor: Gerhard Herndl and Thomas Reinthaler

Topic: Diversity and metabolic activity of bacteria in the sea-surface microlayer

Isabella Leonhard

Supervisor: Martin Zuschin

Topic: Survival of the smallest? The long-term impact of climate warming on the body size of non-commercial fishes in the Adriatic Sea


Environmental Change and Biodiversity

Michaela Berensmeier

Supervisor: Martin Zuschin

Topic: Paloenvironmental changes of a shallow-water ecosystem in the Northern Adriadic Sea: Development of the community composition and its taphonomy

ResearchGate

Florian Danzinger

Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger, Thomas Wrbka

Topic: A safe operating space for agricultural landscapes: integrating green infrastructure, ecological restoration and stakeholder involvement

Andreas Gattringer

Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger

Topic: Plant migration in silico - Methods for simulating plant dynamics in a warming world

ResearchGate

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

ResearchGate

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

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Ekin Kaplan

Supervisor: Franz Essl

Topic: Temporal Changes and underlying Drivers of the Richness and Composition of Eu-rope’s Native and Non-Native Flora

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Chytrý Kryštof

Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger

Topic: Effects of microclimate on distribution patterns of high alpine flora

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Lisa Tedeschi

Supervisor: Franz Essl

Topic: Ecology, spread, and impacts of invasive alien mammals in Europe

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).

ResearchGate

Ana Isabel Martinez Richart

Supervisor: Franz Essl, Jana Petermann

Topic: Landscape connectivity in forests.  A multi-taxa case study on stepping stones between the Dürrenstein-Lassingtal Wilderness Area, and the Kalkalpen and Gesäuse National Parks, Austria

ResearchGate

Rym S. Nouioua

Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger and Bea Maas

Topic: Birds, bats and related ecosystem services in a European land-use context: linking conservation knowledge, agricultural practices and socio-ecological perspectives

Clemens Pachschwöll

Supervisor: Franz Essl

Topic: Detecting ‘invaders in disguise’  DNA barcoding of invasive plant species in Austria

ResearchGate

Sonia Rashid

Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger

Topic: Modelling climate-driven range changes of European butterflies and their host plants - do transient dynamics matter?

ResearchGate

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

ResearchGate

Pablo Aycart Lazo

Supervisor: Bea Maas and Stefan Dullinger

Topic: Functional diversity and interactions of birds, bats and arthropods in tropical cacao agroforestry systems: linking biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service management

 

 

Johannes Hausharter

Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger

Topic: The role of micro-climate and micro-environment for population dynamics of alpine plants


Evolutionary Anthropology

Jeannette Becker

Supervisor: Sylvia Kirchengast

Topic: Comparative analysis of respiratory health during the medieval period in Austria

Leo Capari

Supervisor: Harald Wilfing

Topic: Anatomy of challenge driven R&I: The cases of energy transition and demographic change

ResearchGate

Aigerim Rymbekova

Supervisor: Martin Kuhlwilm

Topic:  Reconstructing the genetic history of Central Eurasia

Tobias Göllner

Supervisor: Martin Fieder, Helmut Schaschl

Topic: The Peopling of Asia: Genetic Ancestry, Population Structure, Demography and Natural Selection

Sonja Kuderer

Supervisor: Martin Fieder, Sylvia Kirchengast

Topic: An interdisciplinary approach: the co-evolution of handedness, sensation seeking and anxiety

Savannah Schaufler

Supervisor: Harald Wilfing, Tatiana Konrad

Topic: Sustainability Reset: Questions of Behavioral and Cultural Changes Revealed by COVID-19

Katarina Matiasek

Supervisor: Harald Wilfing

Topic: Incorporations. Stereo Photography in Anthropology

Victoria Oberreiter

Supervisor: Ron Pinhasi, Thomas Rattei

Topic: Mineralogical Preservation of the Human Biome from the Depth of Time (MINERVA)

 

 

Inga Stolbovaya

Supervisor: Fred Bookstein, Gerhard Weber

Topic: 3D morphometric analysis of the human cranium for the investigation of posterior discrepancy

Constanze Hedwig Schattke

Supervisor: Harald Wilfing, Sabine Eggers

Topic: Witnesses of Violence? Combining Bioarchaeology and Provenance to research violence in the acquisition contexts of human remains in the Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna from 1857 – 1935

Marcel Seifert

Supervisor: Harald Wilfing

Topic: Walk It Like You Talk It: Closing the Value-Action Gap in Climate Action with Experimental Evidence

Muhammad Bilal Sharif

Supervisor: Elmira Mohandesan, Katrin Schäfer

Topic: Investigating the mule's ancient history in Austria and Germany using paleogenomics

Petra Simkova

Supervisor: Gerhard Weber

Topic: Morphological variation and covariation in human postcanine dentition

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

Paul Klostermann

Supervisor: Sabine Eggers

Topic: Adolescence in the Early Medieval Age. A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Pubertal Timing in Central Europe.

Elöd Úry

Supervisor: Gerhard Weber

Topic: A 4D study of the mandibular guiding system: An integrated geometric morphometric approach

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Brina Zagorc

Supervisor: Maria Ivanova-Bieg, Ron Pinhasi

Topic: Sex-specific variations in the health status of subadult Central European skeletal populations during Antiquity and Early Medieval times

Liesa Geppner

Supervisor: Maja Henjakovic, Harald Wilfing

Topic: Micro- and nanoplastic: Methodology for extraction and detection of plastic particles from human blood and mammalian tissue.

Emily Pigott

Supervisor: Thomas Higham

Topic: Re-assessing human and faunal remains from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites within the Crimean Peninsula, using more recent protocols of radiocarbon dating.

Evolutionary Zoology and Palaeobiology

Arnaud Begat

Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet

Topic: Mesozoic elasmobranch fish (sharks, skates, and rays) ecology and diversity patterns before extinction events

 

 

Julian Bibermair

Supervisor: Thomas Schwaha

Topic: Evolution of phylactolaemate bryozoans

Sebastian H. Decker

Supervisor: Thomas Schwaha

Topic: Life cycle and systematics of boring bryozoans

Carlos Fernando De Gracia

Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet

Topic: Evolutionary patterns between fossil and living billfishes (Istiophoridae).

 

 

 

Willy De Mattia

Supervisor: Elisabeth Haring, Gerhard Steiner

Topic: Anatomical revision of Alopiinae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Clausiliidae): TesIng genital characters in clausiliid systematics

Margret Eckhard

Supervisor: Andreas Wanninger

Topic: Glue characterization in centipedes

Iris Fischer

Supervisor: Elisabeth Haring

Topic: Ecological status of aquatic habitats in Vienna: critical comparison of classical monitoring and molecular genetic methods to assess species distribution and composition of the dragonfly fauna

June Feliciano Fronda Ordonez

Supervisor: Tim Wollesen

Topic: Neuronal cell type development in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera

Sophie Greistorfer

Supervisor: Gerhard Steiner

Topic: Glowing mucus; Characterisation of the unique defence secretion of Latia neritoides (Gastropoda)

Anna-Maria Sabine Gschwandner

Supervisor: Robert Ptacnik

Topic: Remoteness and size as determinants of Lake Ecosystem stability (RemoLake)

 

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Marina Ivanković

Supervisor: Robert Ptacnik , Mia Bengtsson

Topic: The impact of mixotrophic bacterivory on microbial food webs in changing lake ecosystems

Patrick Leopold Jambura

Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet

Topic: Evolutionary history and trait evolution in sharks (Selachimorpha; Chondrichthyes): Remembering the past and imaging the future of an apex predator.

Mildred Jessica Johnson

Supervisor: Thomas Schwaha

Topic: The life cycle and systematics of the boring ctenostome bryozoan families Immergentiidae and Spathiporidae

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Claudia Klimpfinger

Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet

Topic: Labial Cartilages in Sharks - an Anatomical Analysis of Present and Past Species

Giulia Marchioro

Supervisor: Luise Kruckenhauser, Pedro Frade, Igor Adameyko, Cecilia D'Angelo

Topic: Functional diversity of coral fluorescent proteins in mesophotic reefs

Katharina Mason

Supervisor: Elisabeth Haring

Topic: When genetics contradicts morphology: How does this affect our species concepts?

ResearchGate

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

ResearchGate

Susanne Reier

Supervisor: Luise Kruckenhauser, Anja Palandacic

Topic: Genetic variation of small cyprinids in the karst area

Julia Türtscher

Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet

Topic: Taxonomic and systematic significance of dental traits in elasmobranch fishes

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Manuel A. Staggl

Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet

Topic: Drivers of Elasmobranch Diversity in Deep Time


Limnology

Pamela Alessandra Baur

Supervisor: Stephan Glatzel

Topic: Greenhouse gas exchanges of special wetland ecosystems in Austria

Florian Caillon

Supervisor: Jakob Schelker and Peter Peduzzi

Topic: Understanding the dynamics of bacterial communities and dissolved organic carbon in small headwater streams

Constanze Englisch

Supervisor: Christian Griebler

Topic: Heat below the City - How increased temperature influences urban groundwater ecosystems

Anna-Maria Sabine Gschwandner

Supervisor: Robert Ptacnik

Topic: Remoteness and size as determinants of Lake Ecosystem stability (RemoLake)

Marina Ivanković

Supervisor: Robert Ptacnik , Mia Bengtsson

Topic: The impact of mixotrophic bacterivory on microbial food webs in changing lake ecosystems

Francine Mathieu

Supervisor: Martin Kainz

Topic: "Temporal dynamics of plankton food webs and sediments of young gravel
pit lakes."

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Raphael Müller

Supervisor: Stephan Glatzel

Topic: Mechanisms of Peat Formation in Different Wetland Ecosystems

Stefano Mari

Supervisor: Martin Kainz, Libor Zavorka

Topic: The importance of dietary omega 3 fatty acids for development of cognitive skills in wild fishes through the lens of Tingbergen’s four

ResearchGate

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.

Pratiksha Acharya

Supervisor: Christian Griebler, Katrin Attermeyer, Simon Vitecek

Topic: Influence of resource and consumer diversity on the quality and microbial processing of fine particulate organic matter during leaf breakdown in streams


Molecular Evolution and Development

Isha Joshi

Supervisor: Peter Schlögelhofer

Topic: Uncovering the Interrelation of DNA damage and Pathogen Response Pathways

Lisa Rouressol

Supervisor: Oleg Simakov, Margaret McFall-Ngai

Topic: Genomic novelty underlying symbiotic organ evolution in bobtail squids

Andreas Denner

Supervisor: Ulrich Technau

Topic: Characterization of putative stem cell marker genes in Nematostella vectensis

Patricio Ferrer Murguia

Supervisor: Ulrich Technau

Topic: Red Sea coral reefs: A Pleistocene - Recent comparison

Lubna Younas

Supervisor: Qi Zhou

Topic: Molecular mechanisms of tissue-specific dosage compensation in Drosophila species

ResearchGate

Paul Knabl

Supervisor: Grigory Genikhovich

Topic: BMP signaling in the cnidarian germ line

 

Koto Kon

Supervisor: Oleg Simakov

Topic: Elucidating the role of transposable element activity in hydra regeneration

Oliver Link

Supervisor: Ulrich Technau

Topic: On the origin and evolution of striated muscle cells: Insights into muscle cell transcriptomes from striated muscles of cnidarian jellyfish

Sanjay Narayanaswamy

Supervisor: Ulrich Technau

Topic: Assessing senescence in the regenerative and long lived Nematostella vectensis


Molecular Systems Biology

Fariha Naz Apon

Supervisor: Peter Schlögelhofer, Marie-Theres Hauser

Topic: Functions of cell wall integrity sensors in plant stress responses

Zhengnan Cai

Supervisor: Elke Heiß, Wolfram Weckwerth

Topic: Metabolic alternation interacts with immune signal transduction in tumor-associated macrophages

Yovita Astuti Djohan

Labgruppe

Supervisor: Stefanie Wienkoop

Topic: Stress-induced Pea-omics: Messire vs. Protecta

Shuang Zhang

Supervisor: Wolfram Weckwerth

Topic: Spatial Variability of Wheat Grain Protein Quality and Its Physiological Mechanism in Response to Different Ratios of Basal Nitrogen Fertilizer to Topdressing Nitrogen Fertilizer

ResearchGate

Maryam Alsadat Zekri

Supervisor: Ingeborg Lang, Daniel Tholen

Topic: Water’s gateway to heaven 3D imaging and modeling of transient stomatal responses in plant leaves under dynamic environments

Jiahang Li

Supervisor: Wolfram Weckwerth

Topic: Development of Systematic Mathematic Matlab-based Software for the Analysis of Environmental, Clinical and Translational Large-scale OMICS Datasets

Madeleine Schnurer

Supervisor: Verena Ibl

Topic: Characterization of TOL proteins in barley

Carlos A. Pérez Rízquez

Labgruppe

Supervisor: Stefanie Wienkoop

Topic: Underlying mechanism(s) of the symbioprotein ferritin on legume root nodule formation and drought stress

 

 

Julian Preiner

Supervisor: Stefanie Wienkoop

Topic: Changes in C/N-metabolic processes and heavy metal stress response of leguminous plants (Glycine max) and their symbiotic partners during tungsten (W) and olybdenum (Mo) induced stress: An integrated proteomic, metabolomic and physiologic assessment.

ResearchGate

Stefan Plott

Supervisor: Wolfram Weckwerth, Verena Ibl

Topic: "ESCRT-Proteins and TOR as Regulators of Protein Turnover in Barley Grains"


Plant Evolutionary Biology

Teerna Saugata Khastgir

Supervisor: Ovidiu Paun

Topic: Comparative genomics and population genomics of the adaptive radiation of Diospyros on New Caledonia, a biodiversity hotspot

Sadia Sabrina Alam

Supervisor: Andreas Bachmair

Topic: The role of post-translational modifications (PTMs) in plant stress resilience

Johannes Maximilian Braunisch

Supervisor: Gerald Schneeweis

Topic: What determines distribution limits of range-restricted species in high-mountain habitats?

Lukas Dirr

Supervisor: Friðgeir Grímsson

Topic: The Application of Citizen-Science and Crowd-Sourced Data in the Field of Aerobiology

Florian Etl

Supervisor: Stefan Dötterl, Jürg Schönenberger

Topic: Mechanisms of reproductive isolation and adaptations to different pollinators in complex pollination networks of tropical Araceae.

Christian Geier

Supervisor: Friðgeir Grímsson

Topic: Flower-insect interactions in the Eocene to Oligocene of Central Europe

 

 

 

Clara Adriana Groot Crego

Supervisor: Ovidiu Paun

Topic: "Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of an adaptive radiation in Tillandsia"

Vildana Kapetanovic

Supervisor: Hanna Schneeweiss

Topic: Diversity and evolution of chili peppers, the genus Capsicum (Solanaceae)

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Karen Kölzer

Supervisor: Martina Weber

Topic: Authenticity of urban honey: Specific challenges for palynology and how diversification of methods can overcome them

Constantin Kopper

Supervisor: Jürg Schönenberger, Agnes Dellinger

Topic: Pollinations syndromes, pollinator shifts and floral evolution in Melastomataceae

Dennis Jonas Larsson

Supervisor: Gerald Schneeweiss

Topic: Evolution in high mountain systems ( Phyteuma, Campanulaceae)

Clemens Pachschwöll

Supervisor: Franz Essl, Gerald Schneeweiss

Topic: Detecting ‘invaders in disguise’  DNA barcoding of invasive plant species in Austria

Martin Rose

Supervisor: Michael Kiehn

Topic: Impact of trade restrictions on species survival

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Theoretical Evolutionary Biology

Nina Kraus

Supervisor: Brian Metscher

Topic: Hemodynamic influences on heart morphogenesis of the developing chick outflow tract

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Katharina Stefke

Supervisor: Philipp Mitteröcker, Frank Zachos

Topic: Morphometric and non-metric analyses in intraspecific variation in the red deer (Cervus elaphus) and their bearing upon evolutionary history and taxonomy

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Inga Stolbovaya

Supervisor: Fred Bookstein, Gerhard Weber

Topic: 3D morphometric analysis of the human cranium for the investigation of posterior discrepancy


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Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity

Barbara Waringer

Supervisor: Christian H. Schulze

Topic: Clutch predation risk in ground nesting birds: effects of predator identity, habitat features and landscape structure.

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