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

01.07.2021
 

Geographer Raffaella Pagogna achieves second place at the photo competition "My research in one picture" with a photo taken 2019 in Ethiopia during...

01.06.2021
 

Register now for the interdisciplinary 'Big Picture Panel Discussion: Science Communication - Challenges and Opportunities' on 16 + 17 June 2021.

20.05.2021
 

The first call for applications of the Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences attracted strong international interest. In each of the...

05.05.2021
 

Lern how Ronald Miletich investigates how produced potassium-containing carbonates react to different pressure and temperature conditions.

16.12.2020
 

In her PhD thesis Tadeja Veršič from VISESS aims to unravel the mystery of dark matter. In this video she gives an insight into her research.

24.09.2020
 

Start für neue univie-Doktoratsschulen

Insgesamt 14 neue Doktoratsschulen - darunter VISESS, die Vienna International School for Earth and Space Sciences an der FGGA - starten diesen Herbst...