Environment and Climate Research Hub

Our Research

Interdisciplinary research at the ECH explores the complex dynamics of environmental change – bridging humanities, natural and social sciences to generate impactful knowledge.

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Shaping Tomorrow: The Impact of Today’s Research

We are motivated to deliver scientific research that contributes to the protection of our climate and environment. We work jointly in excellent cross-disciplinary teams beyond the border of each discipline on research ideas and collaborations.

At the University of Vienna, one of the biggest and most renowned in Europe, we want to advance environmental research for society. We use the strength of networking excellent expertise of individual disciplines in our research hub.

We focus on training, education and excellent qualification of our members. We constantly develop our knowledge and competencies further to develop innovative concepts and approaches for solutions in the areas of environment and climate.

We want to shape society – as an education institution, a hub and a partner for dialogue. For this reason, we educate students and early career scientists and enter active dialogues with civil society and decision-makers in government and society.

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Projects

Research projects are hosted at the specific Faculty of ECH members. The selection here reflects the diverse range of research excellence at the University of Vienna in the field of environment, climate change and sustainability. We list projects led by ECH members as a PI, or those in which they are part of a larger consortium such as in Horizon Europe projects.

Whole-Genome Assessment of Endangered Species for Conservation Success and Biodiversity Reporting

ECH Project
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Barbara Knickmann

ECH members Daria Shipilina at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research and Arne Langlet at the Department of Political Science are working together with Botany and Biodiversity researcher Norman Wickett in this project to not only understand the genome of endangered species better, but also to translate their findings into policy-relevant outpots to improve Austria's CBD/KMGBF reporting…

Linking Environmental to Human Data: Screening of Electrochemically-generated Biotransformation Products

ECH Project
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CeMess / Thomas Suchanek

This Project by Vinicius Verri, Benedikt Warth and Valentin Göldner is trying to bridge environmental and human biomonitoring. It does so by screening NIST Standard Reference Materials (serum, plasma, urine, breast milk) for environmental transformation products (ETPs) using LC–HRMS/MS, leveraging a curated spectral library for suspect screening and subsequent chemical characterization to increase…

NEREIDES: Neutrally Buoyant Particles in the Deep Sea: Turnover, Origin and Global Impact on the Marine Carbon Cycle

Member Project
Epifluorescence image of a bathypelagic neutrally buoyant detrital particle from 3390 m depth

Gerhard Herndl of the Department of Evolutionary Biology is leading the Project NEREIDES.

Export of organic matter produced in the sunlit surface waters into the ocean’s interior removes about one third of the anthropogenically produced carbon dioxide. The amount of organic matter sinking into the deep ocean, however, is not sufficient to support the carbon demand of the heterotrophic food web in…

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