Supervisors and Co-supervisors
Supervision plays a key role in doctoral education. Supervisors provide feedback, guidance and support to PhD students to successfully complete their research project. The VDSEE has a number of highly experienced supervisors who provide excellent infrastructures and conditions for carrying out research.
Candidates are invited to contact our faculty members and discuss their research projects and ideas with them.
All our supervisors have agreed to the Code of Good Practice for Doctoral Schools.
Supervisors by Research Group
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Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics
- Christa Schleper
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Research Areas: Archaea ecology and evolution CRISPR defense systems
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- Silvia Bulgheresi
Research Areas: Environmental Cell Biology
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- Simon Rittmann
Research Areas: Archaea Physiology and Biotechnology
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- Filipa Sousa
Research Areas: Early evolution of Life
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Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology
- Gerhard J. Herndl
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Research Areas: Biological Oceanography, Marine Biogeochemistry and Marine Environmental Change
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- Monika Bright
Research Areas: Marine Biology, Microbial/Eukaryote Mutualism and Zoology
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Pedro Frade, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Corals and Coral reef science; Coral biology, Ecology and Evolution; integrated Systematics, Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics; Biodiversity, Symbiosis, Microbial Ecology and host-associated microbes; invertebrate Zoology
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- Doris Nagel
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- Jörg Ott
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Environmental Change and Biodiversity
- Stefan Dullinger
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Research Areas: Global Change, Biogeography and Biodiversity
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- Franz Essl
Speaker
Research Areas: Bioinvasions, Global Change and Macroecology
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- Karl Hülber
Research Areas: Plant Marcoecology
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- Leyla J. Seyfullah
Research areas: Plant Evolution and Paleobotany
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- Thomas Wrbka
Research Areas: Ecosystem Research; Nature Conservation; Geoecology; Biodiversity Research; Agroecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation; Botany, Vegetation Science, Plant Ecology; Geoinformatics
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- Martin Zuschin
Research Areas: Conservation Paleobiology and Historical Ecology
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Evolutionary Anthropology
- Gerhard Weber
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Research Areas: Human Evolution and Primate Morphology
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- Martin Fieder
Research Areas: Evolutionary Demography, Migration and Integration, Evolution of Religions, Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics, Research and higher Education Management and Human Cooperation
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- Ron Pinhasi
Research Areas: Ancient DNA genomics of human populations across the world during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene with a strong link to physical anthropology and archaeology; aDNA from sediments and pathogen aDNA as well as on the genomics of domesticated species and commensals.
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- Sylvia Kirchengast
Research Areas: Body composition and health; Migration and Health; Biological, evolutionary and social aspects of teenage pregnancies; etc.
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- Katrin Schäfer
Research Areas: Human Behavioral Biology and Evolutionary Aesthetics
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- Harald Wilfing
Research Area: Human Ecology
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- Elmira Mohandesan (co-supervisor)
Research Areas: Ancient DNA (Paleogenomics), Animal Domestication, Population Genetics, Phylogenetics, and Conservation Biology
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- Maria Teschler-Nicola, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Bioanthropology, evolutionary anthropology, palaeopathology, archaeometry (migration studies, Sr-isotope ratios), history of anthropology
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- Katerina Douka
Research Area: Radiocarbon Dating and Paleoproteomics
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- Thomas Higham
Research Areas: Radiocarbon Dating, Archaeological Science, Palaeolithic archaeology, chronology, Neanderthals and Denisovans
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- Martin Kuhlwilm
Research Area: genomics, admixture, primates incl. humans
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Evolutionary Zoology and Palaeobiology
- Andreas Wanninger
Speaker
Research Areas: Animal morphology, Development and Evolution
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- Jürgen Kriwet
Co-Speaker
Research Areas: Vertebrate Evolution, Morphology and Diversity Patterns
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Pedro Frade, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Corals and coral reef science; coral biology, ecology and evolution; integrated systematics, phylogenetics and phylogenomics; biodiversity, symbiosis, microbial ecology and host-associated microbes; invertebrate zoology
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- Elisabeth Haring, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Evolutionary genetics, biodiversity, molecular systematics (animals), molecular phylogenies, phylogeography, population/conservation genetics, DNA barcoding genetic monitoring
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- Harald Krenn
Research Areas: Integrative Zoology and Insect Morphology,
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- Luise Kruckenhauser, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Population and Conservation Genetics, Species Delimitation, Molecular Systematics, Phylogeography, Biodiversity, genetic Monitoring, Evolution of cave fish and DNA barcoding of Molluscs
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- Anja Palandačić, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Population and conservation genetics, species delimitation, molecular systematics & taxonomy, phylogeography, biodiversity, museum and ancient DNA analysis
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- Thomas Schwaha
Research Areas: Animal Morphology and Evolution
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- Gerhard Steiner
Research Areas: Invertebrate Phylogenetics and Evolution
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- Tim Wollesen
Research Areas: Marine Invertebrates
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- Frank Zachos, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Biodiversity, Phylogeography, Population/Conservation genetics of mammals and birds, Species concepts, Theoretical foundations of taxonomy, History and Philosophy of Biology
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Limnology
- Christian Griebler
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Research Area: Groundwater Ecology
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- Katrin Attermeyer
Research Areas: Carbon cycling and freshwater microbial ecology
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- Stephan Glatzel
Research Areas: Wetland Ecology and Management
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- Martin Kainz
Research Areas: Food web ecology, ecotoxicology, trophic tracers
Wassercluster Lunz
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- Hubert Keckeis
Research Areas: River and fish ecology
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- Robert Ptacnik
Research Areas: Aquatic Biodiversity, plankton ecology; lecturer in multivariate statistics
Wassercluster Lunz
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Molecular Evolution and Development
- Ulrich Technau
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Research Areas: Molecular Evolution and EvoDevo
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- Grigory Genikhovich
Research Areas: Evolution and molecular mechanisms of pattern formation in development
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- Thomas Hummel
Research Areas: Molecular and cell biological regulation of brain development in Drosophila, Neurobiology, Evolution and Development
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- Roger Revilla-i-Domingo
Research Areas: Stem cells, early animal evolution and deep-sea sponge ecology
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- Oleg Simakov
Research Areas: Comparative and regulatory genomics
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- Qi Zhou
Research Areas: Sex chromosome evolution
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Molecular Systems Biology
- Wolfram Weckwerth
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Research Areas: Molecular Systems Biology
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- Verena Ibl
Research Areas: Plant cell biology in crop seeds
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- Ingeborg Lang
Research Areas: Structural and functional plant cell biology
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- Stefanie Wienkoop
Research Areas: Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction
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- Steffen Waldherr
Research Areas: Computational Methods for Bio-/Chemical Processes
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Plant Evolutionary Biology
- Jürg Schönenberger
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Research Areas: Diversity and Evolutionary Biology of Flowers
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- Andreas Bachmair
Research Areas: Protein modification in plants, Plant stress responses, Plant molecular biology
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- Agnes Dellinger
Research Areas: Pollination ecology, pollen analysis, floral biology, geometric morphometrics, plant morphology and ecology
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- Friðgeir Grímsson
Research Areas: Paleobotany, paleoecology, palynology and plant-animal interactions
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- Michael Kiehn
Core Facility Botanical Garden
Research Areas: Angiosperm Karyosystematics, Phylogeography and Speciation; International Conventions and Plant Conservation
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- Leyla J. Seyfullah
Research areas: Plant evolution, Palaeobotany
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- Martina Weber, emer.
Research Areas: Palynology
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Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
- Mihaela Pavlicev
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Research Areas: Developmental evolution, reproductive biology, evolvability, evolutionary medicine
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- Joachim Hermisson
Research Areas: Population Genetics
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- Philipp Mitteröcker
Research Areas: Theoretical evolutionary Biology, evolutionary Medicine and Biometrics
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- Frank Emmanuel Zachos, Natural History Museum Vienna
Research Areas: Biodiversity, Phylogeography, Population/Conservation genetics of mammals and birds, Species concepts, Theoretical foundations of taxonomy, History and Philosophy of Biology
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- Brian Metscher
Research Areas: 3D-Imaging, 3D-Modeling, Evolution, X-ray Computed Tomography
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Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity
- Christian H. Schulze
Research Areas: Conservation Biology, ecology, biodiversity, conservation, species diversity, sustainability, ecosystem ecology, natural resource management, ecology and evolution and invasive species
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