EARTH
PhD projects VISESS 2020 Call
As indicated in the PhD project descriptions, for many of them funding is secured already while for others funding might come via a VISESS PhD fellowship or through other future funding sources.
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Earth
- Dense Potassium-Bearing Carbonates – Structure and Stability in Relation to the Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle (Supervisor: Ronald Miletich / funding secured)
- Late Quaternary evolution of Mediterranean biodiversity – A window into global change scenarios (Supervisor: Martin Zuschin / funding potentially via PhD fellowship)
- Mechanisms of Deep Moist Convection Initiation in the Alps (Supervisor: Martin Weissmann / funding potentially via PhD fellowship)
- Near-Snowball Earth states and their implications for the deeptime climate of Earth and the habitability of extrasolar planets (Supervisor: Aiko Voigt / funding secured)
- On-line Lagrangian modelling of atmospheric transport processes (Supervisor: Andreas Stohl / funding secured)
- Past and future tropical rainfall changes through the lens of stormresolving climate modeling (Supervisor: Aigo Voigt / funding secured)
- Sedimentary Record of Recent Glaciation in Tirol and Carinthia (Supervisor: Dan Le Heron / funding potentially via PhD fellowship)
- Sulfide weathering in As- and Sb-extreme environments: tackling arsenic in pyrochlore-supergroup antimonates (Supervisor: Tamara Đorđević / funding potentially via PhD fellowship)
- Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil assemblage changes and events evaluated on a Milankovitch cycle resolution (Supervisor: Michael Wagreich / funding secured)
- Usage of sintering aids for coarse pottery clays at low firing temperatures (Supervisor: Christian Lengauer / funding secured)
- Dense Potassium-Bearing Carbonates – Structure and Stability in Relation to the Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle (Supervisor: Ronald Miletich / funding secured)