Interested in PhD research on the Cosmos, Earth or Anthroposphere?

The Big Picture - Our Mission

 

Humanity faces grand challenges such as resource depletion, climate change, and insecurity about future energy supply. The mission of our Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences (VISESS) at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy is to address these challenges through inter- and trans-disciplinary academic research connecting the cosmos with planets & atmospheres including its environments and with the anthroposphere. We aim our students to become world-leading experts in either of these three branches while also confidently communicate and contribute across all three branches. We want our school to become a central place in the heart of Europe for training and as a resource of knowledge about our place in space and time.

Earthrise. Taken by astronaut William Anders, Apollo 8. (NASA)


 News

29.10.2024
 

Are you curious about how human activities drive Climate Change and how these changes impact our future in return? This Climate Fresk workshop for the...

13.05.2024
 

Come and join us for this exciting event: Science and art, academia and other passions, how can these be combined? This event elucidates these...

19.04.2024
 

Be invited to a talk by Sebastián Lehuedé on the concepts of coloniality and autonomy and how they manifest in the governance of astronomy data in...

12.04.2024
 

Join us for a talk by Mary Anne Holmes, awarded with the new "Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion-Awards" of the European Geosciences Union...

15.02.2024
 

New year, new photos - new photo competition: The "Snapshots of Exploration" photo competition for students at the Faculty of Earth Sciences,...

11.02.2024
 

Science is fascinating, impactful, multifaceted - and female, too! To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Feb 11, we have...