Members

Currently the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) has 65 members from different faculties and departments of the University of Vienna. All are engaged in research around topics in the area of environment and climate.

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Member list

Dr. Byeongsun Ahn, MSc

Department of Sociology

Main research areas:

  • Citizen Participation
  • Policymaking
  • Sustainable Development

 

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Dott. mag. Dr. Atakan Aral

Department of Computer Science

Main research areas:

  • Distributed Systems
  • Sustainable Computing
  • Environmental Monitoring and Intelligence

 

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Dr. Katrin Attermeyer

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Main research areas:

  • Freshwater Carbon Cycling
  • Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Greenhouse Gases
  • Environmental Change Research

 

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Valentina Ausserladscheider, BA MSc M.Phil. PhD

Department of Economic Sociology

Main research areas:

  • Climate Change Vulnerabilities
  • Stranded Assets
  • Discourse

 

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Ayansina Ayanlade, BSc MSc PhD

Department of Geography and Regional Research

Main research areas:

  • Climate Change Vulnerability Risk
  • Climate Change Impacts and Adaption
  • Applied Climatology
  • Land-Climate Processes

 

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Kyle Boodoo, BSc MSc MSc PhD

Department of Geography and Regional Research

Main research areas:

  • Sustainable Management
  • Peatland Science
  • Carbon Biogeochemistry

 

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Mag. Dr. Alina Brad

Department of Political Science

Main research areas:

  • International Climate Politics
  • Geo-Engineering
  • Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies

 

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Dott. Dott. mag. Dr. Giorgio Brocco

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Main research areas:

  • Human and Environmental Health
  • Epigenetics
  • Chemo-Ethnography

 

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Dr. Lukas Brunner, BSc MSc

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

Main research areas:

  • Temperature Extremes
  • Climate Models
  • Machine Learning

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Polit. Dr. Ulrich Brand

Department of Political Science

Main research areas:

  • International Politics
  • Global Environmental Governance

 

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Ass.-Prof. Dr. sc. ETH Alexandra Brausmann

Department of Economics

Main research areas:

  • Macro and Micro Impacts of Climate Change
  • Environmental Migration

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Böttcher

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Main research areas:

  • Chemistry of Microbial Interactions
  • Strategies for Modulating Microbial Growth, Virulence, and Coordinated Behaviours

 

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Palak Chaturvedi, B. Tech M. Tech PhD

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Main research areas:

  • Crop Improvement and Resilience
  • Proteomics
  • Sustainable Agriculture

 

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Univ.-Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh, PhD

Department of Philosophy

Main research areas:

  • Philosophy of Technology
  • Ethics of Technology

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Antje Daniel, B.A. MA

Department of Development Studies

Main research areas:

  • Human-Environment-Relations
  • Social Movements
  • Global Transformation

 

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Kimberly Crystal Doell, MSc PhD

Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology

Main research areas:

  • Behaviour Change
  • Social Psychology
  • Environmental Neuroscience

 

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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan Dullinger

Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research

Main research areas:

  • Spatial Biodiversity Patterns
  • Invasion Biology

 

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Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Franz Essl

Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research

Main research areas:

  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Neobiota

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt

Department of Science and Technology Studies

Main research areas:

  • Participation and Governance of Science/Technology in Democratic Societies
  • Science Communication

 

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Mag. Lucia Fuchslueger, PhD

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Main research areas:

  • Soil Ecology
  • Soil Nutrient Cycling
  • Carbon Storage

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexa Färber

Department of European Ethnology

Main research areas:

  • Cultural Urban Studies
  • Anthropology of Knowledge

 

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Dr. Blaž Gasparini, MSc ETH

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

Main research areas:

  • Cloud Physics
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Solar Geoengineering

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Vw. Thomas Gehrig, PhD

Department of Finance

Main research areas:

  • Financial Intermediation
  • Price Discovery and Information Aggregation in Market Systems

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Geogr. Dr. Stephan Glatzel

Department of Geography and Regional Research

Main research areas:

  • Soil Science
  • Environmental Science

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Leticia Gonzalez Herrero

Department of Theoretical Chemistry

Main research areas:

  • Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Dynamics
  • Simulations on Photocatalysis and Solar Fuels

 

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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian Griebler

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Main research areas:

  • Biodiversity in Groundwater Ecosystems
  • Role of Microorganisms and Metazoans in the Carbon Cycle of Subterranean Aquatic Habitats

 

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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Nils Robert Güttler

Department of History

Main research areas:

  • History of the Environment and Science
  • History of Technology and Infrastructure

 

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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Karin Hain

Isotope Physics

Main research areas:

  • Dispersion Pathways of Long-Lived Radioisotopes Released into the Environment
  • (Environmental) Tracer Applications

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Herndl

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Main research areas:

  • Marine Microbial and Molecular Ecology
  • Microbial Oceanography

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Eva Horn

Department of German Studies

Main research areas:

  • Literature and Art in the Anthropocene
  • Conceptualizations of Climate

 

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Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Christina Kaiser

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Main research areas:

  • Soil as a Complex System
  • Soil Organic Matter Decomposition

 

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Univ.-Prof. Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov, PhD

Department of Sociology

Main research areas:

  • International Urban Sociology
  • Comparative Social Policy

 

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Sebastian Paul Klinger, M.Phil. PhD

Department of German Studies

Main research areas:

  • Theories of Habitability
  • Literature and Media in the Anthropocene
  • History of the Environmental Sciences

 

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Laura Koesten, MSc Ph.D.

Research Group Visualization and Data Analysis

Main research areas:

  • Data Visualization
  • Human Data Interaction
  • Climate Data

 

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Dr. Tatiana Konrad, MA

Department of English and American Studies

Main research areas:

  • Climate Change (on Page and Screen)
  • Human and More-than-Human Relationships
  • Environmental Racism

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Krellenberg

Department of Geography and Regional Research

Main research areas:

  • Urban Sustainability Transformations, Urban Vulnerability, and Urban Adaptation
  • Global Environmental Change and the Digital Transformation

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Geol. Dr. Stephan Krämer

Department of Environmental Geosciences

Main research areas:

  • Pollutant and Nutrient Biogeochemistry
  • Mineral Interactions with Nucleic Acids

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gunda Köllensperger

Department of Analytical Chemistry

Main research areas:

  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Inorganic Trace Analysis

 

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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Claus Lamm

Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology

Main research areas:

  • Brain Research
  • Social Psychology

 

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ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Alina-Maria Lengauer, LL M

Department of European, International and Comparative Law

Main research areas:

  • European Energy and Environmental Law
  • European Migration Law

 

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Laura Maggini, BSc MSc PhD

Department of Organic Chemistry

Main research areas:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Sustainable Electronics
  • Additive Manufacturing

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Doris Marko

Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology

Main research areas:

  • Bioactivity
  • Molecular Mechanisms of Food Constituents

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nuno Maulide

Department of Organic Chemistry

Main research areas:

  • Stereoselective Synthesis of Organic Compounds
  • Development of New Synthetic/Catalytic Methodologies

 

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Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stephanie Nitsch

Department of European, International and Comparative Law

Main research areas:

  •   Comparative Private Environmental Law
  •   Private International Law  

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Department of English and American Studies

Main research areas:

  • Medical Humanities
  • Adaptation Studies

 

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Dr. Petra Pjevac

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Main research areas:

  • Nitrogen Cycling
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Aquatic and Terrestrial Microbiology

 

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Shaul Pollak Pasternak, B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D.

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Main research areas:

  • Microbial Ecology
  • Genomics
  • Machine-Learning

 

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Dr. Gina Porras Brenes

Department of Biological Chemistry

Main research areas:

  • Natural Product Chemistry
  • Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Bioactive Molecules

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Main research areas:

  • Carbon Use Efficiency
  • Growth and Turnover of Microbial Communities
  • Arctic Soil Carbon Storage and the Permafrost-Climate Feedback

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Geogr. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak, MA

Department of Geography and Regional Research

Main research areas:

  • Vulnerable Groups Living with Risk
  • Human-Environment-Relations

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Christa Schleper

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Main research areas:

  • Ecology and evolution of Archaea
  • Development and application of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic, metabolomic and proteomic
    approaches to study natural microbial communities

 

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Dr. Etienne Schneider, BA MA

Department of Development Studies

Main research areas:

  • Industrial Policy and Decarbonization
  • European Climate Policy
  • Carbon Dioxide Removal

 

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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Andreas Stohl

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

Main research areas:

  • Transport Processes in the Atmosphere
  • Ozone Formation

 

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Mag. Dr. Sabine Tebbich, Privatdoz.

Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology

Main research areas:

  • Invasive Species
  • Habitat Restoration  
  • Island Conservation

 

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Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Alice Vadrot

Department of Political Science

Main research areas:

  • Global Environmental Politics
  • Practices, Discourses and Institutions in International Biodiversity Politics

 

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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sanderien Verstappen

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Main research areas:

  • Visual and Multimodal Anthropology
  • Mobility Studies
  • Urban Studies

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Aiko Voigt

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

Main research areas:

  • Global Climate Dynamics and Climate Modeling
  • Clouds, Radiation and Circulation of the Atmosphere

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Benedikt Warth, Bakk.

Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology

Main research areas:

  • Metabolomics and Exposomics
  • Impact of Food and Environment-Related Molecules on Human Health and Disease

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfram Weckwerth

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Main research areas:

  • Metabolomics - from Farm to Health
  • Sustainable and climate smart agriculture, international agricultural networks (CGIAR) and resilient crop plants in the climate crisis

 

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernadett Weinzierl

Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics

Main research areas:

  • Airborne Aerosol Measurements
  • Aerosol Long Range Transport

 

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Mathew White, BSc MSc PhD

Vienna Cognitive Science Hub

Main research areas:

  • Benefits of Exposure to Natural Environments for Health and Wellbeing 
  • Public Understanding of Anthropogenic and Natural Environmental Hazards
  • Pro-Environmental Attitudes, Behaviours and Behaviour Change

 

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Assoz. Prof. Dr. Paul Winkler, Privatdoz.

Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics

Main research areas:

  • Heterogeneous Nucleation Processes
  • Nanoparticle Dynamics

 

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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Chi Zhang

Department of Meteorology and Geophysics

Main research areas:

  • Quantifying Soil/Rock Architecture and Predicting Hydrologic Parameters
  • Identifying and Projecting Biogeochemical Processes

 

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