PhDs


Cosmos PhD Students

PhD studentProjectSupervisor(s)
Christine AckerlAccretion Histories of Galaxies from Integrated-Light SpectroscopyGlenn van de Ven, Ryan Leaman
Francesca Bonanomi

Origin and evolution of fiber networks: 
comparing ALMA observations and simulations

Alvaro Hacar
Vyacheslav ChubenkoRadiative transfer and intensity distribution in Cepheids
Horst FoidlStructure Formation in the Lambda-SFDM-Model as an Alternative to the Lambda-CDM-ModelTanja Rindler-Daller, Werner Zeilinger
Rodrigo Alonso Guadamarra AlmeidaNumerical modeling of chemical and dynamical evolution of protoplanetary disks at different metallicitiesManuel Güdel
Fabian HaberhauerOn the expected contribution of the ELT and its instruments to constrain the parameters of the origins of star formation in diverse environmentsWerner Zeilinger
Erich HartigA Study of Long Period Variables in Globular and Open Clusters NGC 6791, NGC 6266, NGC 6441Thomas Lebzelter
David HernandezA spectro-morphological classification system for young stellar objectsJoao Alves, Odyssefs Dionatos
Nikolaus HeuInternal angular momentum distribution in main sequence starsWerner Wolfgang Weiss
Matthias KühtreiberA Multi-Phase Gas Description and its Implications for Numerical Models of Dwarf GalaxiesGerhard Hensler
Prem KumarConnecting Present-day Galaxies and their Progenitors with Stellar Population-Dynamics Glenn van de Ven
Efrem MaconiGalactic Weather: Characterize the galactic environment encountered by the Solar System during its orbitJoao Alves
Federica MauroCo-evolution of disk and bulge components in spiral galaxies since the cosmic noonBodo Ziegler
Marko MecinaDetached shells - probing the mass loss history of evolved starsFranz Kerschbaum
Gerald MösenlechnerOn-board data processing for the ARIEL payloadFranz Kerschbaum
Laura PoschThe 3D space motion of the local Interstellar MediumJoao Alves, Stefan Meingast, Alvaro Hacar, Herve Bouy, Catherine Zucker,
Alyssa Goodman
Vlad RastauOutflows from asymptotic giant branch starsFranz Kerschbaum, Josef Hron, Matthias Maercker, Sofia Ramstedt
Stefanie ReiterInterdisciplinary Advances in Extragalactic ArchaeologyPrashin Jethwa, Glenn van de Ven
Nils-Martin RobelingExoplanet atmospheresSudeshna Boro Saikia
Alena Kristina RottensteinerRevisiting the star formation history and evolution of the Orion complexJoao Alves
Simon SchleichOn the path to the detection of another Earth: Characterising exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWSTSudeshna Boro Saikia, Manuel Güdel, Aiko Voigt
Andrea SocciALMA observations of complex fiber networksAlvaro Hacar, Mario Tafalla
Ivan StankovicExoplanet atmosphere simulationsManuel Güdel
Daniel SteinerMagnetic fields in protoplanetary disksManuel Güdel
Cameren SwiggumA paradigm change in the making: the origin and evolution of 
the Radcliffe Wave
Joao Alves, Stefan Meingast, Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman
Gwenael van LooverenPlanetary atmospheres under the evolving starManuel Güdel, Colin Johnstone, Kristina Kislyakova, 
Sudeshna Boro Saikia
Lukas WinklerCosmological Field-Level Inference using Fast Differentiable IntegratorsOliver Hahn
Agata WislockaSimulating the Dark Side of the universeOliver Hahn
Maximilian ZimmermannHigh resolution n-body simulations of the dynamical evolution of the late stages of terrestrial planet formation in binary star systemsOliver Hahn, Elke Pilta-Lohinger

Earth PhD Students

PhD studentProjectSupervisor(s)
Andrea Acevedo MejiaAncient Pigment Trade and ProductionChristian Köberl, Alexandra Rodler
Yongki Andita AimanConstraints on mechanical stress from ambient seismic noiseGötz Bokelmann
Rene AsenbaumMechanisms and rates of mineral reactions in the
geochemical gradient at mafic-felsic granulite contacts during
granulite facies metamorphism and metasomatism
Rainer Abart
Hiro BehnamOrganic Phosphorus MineralizationWolfgang Wanek
Sandy ChkeirAssimilation of cloud-affected satellite observations in the
convection-permitting numerical weather prediction model AROME
Martin Weißmann
Yujing DengRecalcitrance of peats: A study on the consequences of temperature,
water table and nutrient addition variations in peatlands under
a gradient of agricultural intensification in Austria
Stephan Glatzel
Katharina EniglImproving sustainability levels of adaption programs through the 
application of decision theoretical techniques accounting for future changes in risk landscapes due to
accelerated climate change
Christoph Matulla, Leopold Haimberger
loanna EvangelouTransport of microplastics in the atmosphere:
From emission sources to deposition sinks
Andreas Stohl
Kamila FaizievaRecent benthic foraminifera of Svalbard and adjacent areasPetra Heinz
Mohammad Fallah 
Kheirkhah
Identifying hydrocarbon seepages in offshore and 
onshore frontier exploration areas
Bernhard Grasemann, Jörn Ludwig  Peckmann
Barbara FleckUntersuchung der Grundwasser-Vulnerabilität alpiner Karstgebiete mittels
Kombination von GIS-Analysen und numerischer Modellierung
Bernhard Grasemann
Magdalena Sophia FritzEnsemble-based parameter estimation for boundary layer turbulence
parameterizations over heteogeneous terrain
Stefano Serafin, Martin Weißmann
Andreas GernerSelf-Noise of Seismic Sensors: Aspects & Parameters of 
Three-Sensor Coherency-Analysis
Bernhard Grasemann, Wolfgang Leonhardt
Kirill GrachevUnveiling the Impact of Slow-Moving Landslides on
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Pre-Alpine Grassland Soils
Thomas Glade, Stephan Glatzel
Paula Granero OrdóñezUpper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil assemblage changes 
and events evaluated on a Milankovitch cycle resolution
Michael Wagreich
Gerit GriesmeierQuaternary geology of the Großsölk Valley and surroundingsDaniel Le Heron
Chao GuoCenozoic tectono-geomorphology evolution of the West Qinling
and its effects on the Cenozoic climate evolution, NE Tibetan Plateau
Bernhard Grasemann
Mario HabermüllerFold-and-Thrust Structures in the Northern Calcareous Alps:
Quantitative Analysis at the Alpine Front
Bernhard Grasemann
Sarah HaghjooCFA-derived zeolites for removal of POPs from contaminated mediaChristian Lengauer
Diana HatzenbühlerUrbAn.Cvie - From Romans to the Anthropocene,
from Carnuntum to Vienna: Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
Michael Wagreich
Luke Thomas HillInvestigations of Anisotropic Rocks (POLARIS):
To investigate the influence of anisotropies on rock deformation
Bernhard Grasemann
Jiranan HomnanAccessory mineral petrochronology of high-grade metamorphic rocks and
the application to basement units in the Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Urs Kloetzli
Johannes HörnerNear-Snowball Earth states and their implications for the deep-time climate of Earth and the habitability of extrasolar planetsAiko Voigt, Dorian Abbot
Kaushambi JyotiTesting the novel approaches of covariance localization in an
ensemble-variational data assimilation system
Martin Weißmann
Niko KompeinAnthropogenic variations and EM pulses in the magnetic gradiometer signals measured at the "Conrad Observatory" and modelling of appropriate sourcesRoman Leonhardt
Richard Amon KramerSeismic Ambient Noise - Applications for Subsurface MonitoringGötz Bokelmann
Barbara LanthalerEffects of Land Use Intensity on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
in Austrian Peatlands
Stephan Glatzel
Kira LappéThe Anthropocene Surge - Mapping and
Modelling Vienna´s Anthropocene
Wolfgang Kainz, Michael Wagreich
Sebastian LehnerOptimizing downscaling performance and
plant predictions with ensemble-based statistical postprocessing
Christoph Matulla, Leopold Haimberger
Paulina Mejías-Osorio
Sedimentary record of recent glaciation in Tirol and CarinthiaDaniel Le Heron
Maria Elisabeth MeszarAnthropogenic deposits and the Anthropocene of ViennaMichael Wagreich
Sofija MilosDense Potassium-Bearing Carbonates – Structure and 
Stability in Relation to the Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle
Ronald Miletich, Anna Likhacheva, Sergey Rashchenko, Anton Shatskiy
Mostafa MohamedStratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Eocene successions in EgyptPetra Heinz, Michael Wagreich
Michael MoserThe middle Triassic palinspastic model of the eastern
Northern Calcareous Alps (Project title: Middle-Triassic Reservoir rocks,
Northern Calcareous Alps, Vienna basin)
Michael Wagreich
Katja MužekFrom the Dinarides Lake System to the Mediterranean Lago Mare:
migration patterns and climate change recorded by the
late Neogene limnic ostracods and mollusks
Oleg Mandic, Martin Zuschin
Fatemeh Nazari VananiRepresentativity of the Samples in Natural Fractured NetworkOscar Fernandez Bellon, Martin Schöpfer
Pauline OberenderQuantification of (frost) weathering processes and 
their relevance for speleogenesis
Adrian Flores Orozco, Bernhard Grasemann
Stefano PeresCrystal Clustering in Magmas: Mechanisms and Petrological significanceRainer Abart
Helmut PristaczMineralogisch-kristallographische, spektroskopische und gemmologische
Untersuchungen an "Türkis" im Handel
Eugen Libowitzky
Peter ProßeggerUrsprung wässriger Mineralphasen und Bildung von Schmelztaschen
im subcontinentalen Erdmantel unterhalb von Süd-Patagonien, Argentinien
Theodor Ntaflos, Rainer Abart
Alina ReiningerAtmospheric transport modelling and transport climatologyAndreas Stohl
Markus RosenbergerUtilizing machine learning methods for automated cloud classification
from RGB pictures taken at the Earth's surface
Martin Weißmann
Samuel Shayan C. RoudbarSedimentology and geomorphology of microplasticsDaniel Le Heron, Ronald Pöppl, Michael Wagreich
Florian SacklGeochemical Identification of Projectils in Impact RocksChristian Köberl
Gaëlle Ségué-PassamaReduction of the critical gaps in archaeomagnetic dataRoman Leonhardt, Chi Zhang
Vanessa Nicole SeitnerHomogenization of global solar radiation timeseries in AustriaLeopold Haimberger
Masoud Sharifi YazdiReconstruction of paleoclimatic, paleoceanographic, and paleoenvironmental conditions
during the Oligocene-Miocene in central Iran: Evidence from the Qom Formation
Michael Wagreich
Dorian SpätPast and future tropical rainfall changes through the lens of storm-resolving climate modelingAiko Voigt, Michela Biasutti
Rakesh SubramanianInverse Modelling of Greenhouse GasesAndreas Stohl
Daria TatsiiOn-line Lagrangian modelling of atmospheric transport processesAndreas Stohl
Anne TipkaEnhancing the Science and Quality of the Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPARTPetra Seibert
Matee UllahA theoretical and model-based petrochronological-thermochronological approach towards 
a better understanding of the complexities in geochronological data
Urs Klötzli
Ulrich VoggenbergerImproved homogenisation of a comprehensive upper air data setLeopold Haimberger
Zheng WangRevealing hydrothermal-induced mechanical deformations in natural porous mediaChi Zhang
Ricarda WohlschläglLate Paleozoic Glacial LandsystemsDaniel Le Heron
Daniel Robert WoodellNumerical modelling of restless caldera volcanoesBernhard Grasemann, Martin Schöpfer
Ivanka WoodellActive tectonics and recent dynamics of micro-displacements along 
major fault systems of the Eastern Alps registered in caves
Bernhard Grasemann
Xinxuan XiangGreenhouse climate control models of the coal-bearing cycles in
the Upper Cretaceous of European basins
Michael Wagreich
Xiangxue ZhengGeometry and evolution of the plumbing systems beneath
ocean island volcanoes: the case of La Palma, El Hierro and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands)
Rainer Abart
Junwen ZhouApplication of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) simulation
in investigating unsaturated porous media in the vadose zone
Chi Zhang, Elke Pilat-Lohinger

Anthroposphere PhD Students

PhD studentProjectSupervisor(s)
Lukas Sebastian BehrendUnderstanding Traditions to Enable Transitions:
A Hermeneutic-Historical Institutionalism Perspective on Planning Practice
Meike Levin-Keitel
Ailín Allelen Benítez Cortés The impacts of climate change are being felt across
the world and disproportionately affect vulnerable communities
Patrick Sakdapolrak
Magdalena BergerIndigenous Geographies, Gendered Epistemologies and
Climate Adaptation: A Participatory Analysis with the
Nyangatom Agro-Pastoralists in the Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia
Patrick Sakdapolrak
Kosita ButratanaThe Migration of Thai Women to Austria: Ventures of Love and BusinessKarl Husa
Danielle Claire CarbonThe influence of recurring drought-related dry periods in the
summer months on the drinking water supply. An analysis of
regional resilience in the context of climate change in Germany
Thomas Glade
Edoardo CarraroLandslide dynamics - from local monitoring to spatial analysisThomas Glade
Rachael Kuuipo DiniegaThe Impact of Translocal Social Remittances on the Environment in MoroccoPatrick Sakdapolrak
Alexandra FortaczHow to handle a crisis? - Data, Information, and Knowledge in Times of CrisisKrzysztof Janowicz
Michael FrieseneckerAlltag 'Gentrification'? Neue (relationale) Sichtweisen auf
Wohnen, Konsumieren und Zusammenleben am Beispiel Wiens
Heinz Faßmann
Coline GarciaUnderstanding the environmental impact on migration 
through the use of longitudinal data
Patrick Sakdapolrak, Benjamin Sultan
Alessio GiustolisiPlace-Specific Factors and the Design and Implementation of Smart Specialisation StrategiesMichaela Trippl
Qilei HuangExploring and modelling the reality and perception of crime prevalence in the urban environmentOurania Kounadi
Yenny Alejandra Jimenez DonatoHazard analysis of slow-moving landslides in Lower AustriaThomas Glade
Jannik KastrupTowards socially just and green regional restructuring under transformation pressureMichaela Trippl
Jiannis KaucicEuropean Cross-Border Cooperation Stages of territorial integration and impacts on regional developmentAxel Priebs, Christophe Sohn
Annemarie LechteJust industrial transitions: Exploring structure-agency relations in regional decarbonisation pathwaysMichaela Trippl
Leonard LemkeThe covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for transformation in rural areas in Austria and Thailand: A comparative analysisMichaela Trippl, Patrick Sakdapolrak
Zilong Liu
Knowledge on graph-based GeoEnrichment for Environmental IntelligenceKrzysztof Janowicz
Anna LoffingThe Potential of Civil Society Conflicts for the Mobility Transition in Rural AreasMeike Levin-Keitel
Elisabeth MusilShould I stay or should i go? -(Im)mobiity aspirations and trajectories of international graduates of the University of ViennaMichaela Trippl
Mikel OleagaThe potential enabling role for knowledge-based entrepreneurship of coworking spaces in peripheral regions: a multi-dimensional analysisMichaela Trippl
Raffaella PagognaThe future in (im)mobility: aspirations and desires to migrate and the role of ICT in EthiopiaPatrick Sakdapolrak
John Edward Gonzales PerezHotspots and hot moments: the role of connectivity and resilience science for managing human-impacted catchment systemsRonald Pöppl
Stefan PremmRekonstruktion der historischen Waldnutzung im Einzugsgebiet der Eisenproduktion des Steirischen Erzberges im Hinblick auf deren geomorphologische FolgewirkungenChristine Embleton-Hamann
Daniel RaithoferGW-Unterricht zum Umgang mit Krise und Veränderung - Ein Beitrag zur Resilienzförderung von Schüler*innenChristiane Hintermann
Peter Alexander RumpoltRäumliche Mobilität bedeutender historischer PersönlichkeitenHeinz Faßmann
Meilin Shi
Concept Drift in Geo-Knowledge GraphsKrzysztof Janowicz
Mongkon ThongchaithanawutMigration influenced by environmental change in ThailandPatrick Sakdapolrak
Mariana Vallejo VelázquezSubjective geographic information through structured digital sketch mapping: developmnet, validation and visualizationOurania Kounadi
James VandenbergAssessing the Impact of Urban Agriculture on the Resilience Capacities of Urban Food Systems: A comparative case study of 2 European citiesKerstin Krellenberg
Songlin WangAnalyzing climate mobility via GeoAIPatrick Sakdapolrak
Lemlem Fitwi WeldemariamUnderstanding the food security-migration nexus. A case study from Tigray region, EthiopiaPatrick Sakdapolrak
Till WenzelCompounding and cascading dynamics of geomorphic hazards and their impacts to critical infrastructure in high mountain areas - analysis of current events and future scenariosThomas Glade