PhDs
Cosmos PhD Students
| PhD student | Project | Supervisor(s) |
| Christine Ackerl | Accretion histories of galaxies from integrated-light spectroscopy | Glenn van de Ven, Ryan Leaman |
| Francesca Bonanomi | Origin and evolution of fiber networks: | Alvaro Hacar |
| Janus Daniel Brink | Optimising spectroscopic performance at the ELT | Joao Alves |
| Vyacheslav Chubenko | Radiative transfer and intensity distribution in Cepheids | |
| Rodrigo Alonso Guadamarra Almeida | Numerical modeling of chemical and dynamical evolution of protoplanetary disks at different metallicities | Manuel Güdel |
| Fabian Haberhauer | On the expected contribution of the ELT and its instruments to constrain the parameters of the origins of star formation in diverse environments | Werner Zeilinger |
| Erich Hartig | A Study of Long Period Variables in Globular and Open Clusters NGC 6791, NGC 6266, NGC 6441 | Thomas Lebzelter |
| David Hernandez | A spectro-morphological classification system for young stellar objects | Joao Alves |
| Nikolaus Heu | Internal angular momentum distribution in main sequence stars | Werner Wolfgang Weiss |
| Shivam Dhananjay Joshi | Debris Disc Modeling in Multiple Wavelengths | Manuel Güdel, Nicole Pawellek |
| Lilly Anna Kormann | Physical Characterization of Superclouds | Joao Alves |
| Matthias Kühtreiber | A Multi-Phase Gas Description and its Implications for Numerical Models of Dwarf Galaxies | Gerhard Hensler |
| Prem Kumar | Connecting Present-day Galaxies and their Progenitors with Stellar Population-Dynamics | Glenn van de Ven |
| Efrem Maconi | Galactic Weather: Characterize the galactic environment encountered by the Solar System during its orbit | Joao Alves |
| Federica Mauro | Co-evolution of disk and bulge components in spiral galaxies since the cosmic noon | Bodo Ziegler |
| Marko Mecina | Detached shells - probing the mass loss history of evolved stars | Franz Kerschbaum |
| Gerald Mösenlechner | On-board data processing for the ARIEL payload | Franz Kerschbaum |
| Louis Müller | Interior Outgassing and Dynamo Evolution of Earth, Venus, and Mars | Kristina Kislyakova |
| Michelangelo Pantaleoni Gonzalez | Massive Stars and the Interstellar Medium in the Context of the Local Milky Way | Joao Alves |
| Anuja Raorane | Atmospheric and magnetospheric modeling - simulating non-thermal escape and magnetospheric processes in the early solar system planets | Manuel Gündel, Kristina Kislyakova |
| Vlad Rastau | Outflows from asymptotic giant branch stars | Franz Kerschbaum, , Josef Hron |
| Stefanie Reiter | Interdisciplinary Advances in Extragalactic Archaeology | Prashin Jethwa, Glenn van de Ven |
| Nils-Martin Robeling | Atmospheric Photochemistry for exoplanetary spectra using the Kompot cose | Sudeshna Boro Saikia, Manuel Gündel |
| Alena Kristina Rottensteiner | Revisiting the star formation history and evolution of the Orion complex | Joao Alves |
| Simon Schleich | On the path to the detection of another Earth: Characterising exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWST | Sudeshna Boro Saikia, Manuel Güdel, Aiko Voigt |
| Ivan Stankovic | Influence of initial chemical conditions on exoplanetary atmospheric properties, mass loss rates and lifetimes | Sudeshna Boro Saikia, Manuel Güdel |
| Lukas Winkler | Cosmological Field-Level Inference using Fast Differentiable Integrators | Oliver Hahn |
| Agata Maria Wislocka | Dark matter halo formation and simulations | Oliver Hahn |
| Maximilian Zimmermann | Dynamische Entwicklung von protoplanetaren Scheiben: Vergleich zwischen Einzelstern- und Doppelsternsystemen; Untersuchung der Einwirkung der Störungen durch Gasriesen und/oder eines zweiten Sternes auf die Kollisionen, bzw. das Anwachsen von terrestrischen Planeten | Oliver Hahn, , Elke Pilta-Lohinger |
Earth PhD Students
| PhD student | Project | Supervisor(s) |
| Andrea Acevedo Mejia | Ancient pigment trade and production: multidisciplinary strategies for pigment provenance studies | Christian Köberl, Alexandra Rodler |
| Nidhal Salah Eddine Aga | PEAT-FLUX: Linking pore architecture, hydrology, and greenhouse gas emissions in peatlands | Chi Zhang |
| Silke Aschauer | Update for understanding geological time | Theresa Nohl |
| Yujing Deng | Recalcitrance 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 Enigl | Impact of climate change on ecosystems with special focus on alpine lakes and forests | Leopold Haimberger |
| loanna Evangelou | Transport of microplastics in the atmosphere: From emission sources to deposition sinks | Andreas Stohl |
| Kamila Faizieva | Recent benthic foraminifera of Svalbard and adjacent areas | Petra Heinz |
| Mohammad Fallah Kheirkhah | Identifying hydrocarbon seepages in offshore and onshore frontier exploration areas | Bernhard Grasemann, Jörn Peckmann |
| Barbara Fleck | Untersuchung der Grundwasser-Vulnerabilität alpiner Karstgebiete mittels Kombination von GIS-Analysen und numerischer Modellierung | Bernhard Grasemann |
| Magdalena Sophia Fritz | Ensemble-based parameter estimation for boundary layer turbulence parameterizations over heteogeneous terrain | Stefano Serafin, Martin Weißmann |
| Andreas Gerner | Self-Noise of Seismic Sensors: Aspects & Parameters of Three-Sensor Coherency-Analysis | Bernhard Grasemann, Wolfgang Lenhardt |
| Kirill Grachev | Unveiling the Impact of Slow-Moving Landslides on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Pre-Alpine Grassland Soils | Thomas Glade, Stephan Glatzel |
| Paula Granero Ordóñez | Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil assemblage changes and events evaluated on a Milankovitch cycle resolution | Michael Wagreich |
| Gerit Griesmeier | Quaternary geology of the Großsölk Valley and surroundings | Daniel Le Heron |
| Chao Guo | Cenozoic tectono-geomorphology evolution of the West Qinling and its effects on the Cenozoic climate evolution, NE Tibetan Plateau | Bernhard Grasemann |
| Mario Habermüller | Fold-and-Thrust Structures in the Northern Calcareous Alps: Quantitative Analysis at the Alpine Front | Bernhard Grasemann |
| Diana Hatzenbühler | UrbAn.Cvie - From Romans to the Anthropocene, from Carnuntum to Vienna: Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene | Michael Wagreich |
| Luke Thomas Hill | Investigations of Anisotropic Rocks (POLARIS): To investigate the influence of anisotropies on rock deformation | Bernhard Grasemann |
| Jiranan Homnan | Accessory mineral petrochronology of high-grade metamorphic rocks and the application to basement units in the Chiang Mai Province, Thailand | Urs Kloetzli |
| Zixuan Huo | The Phase Transition Kinetics of Pore Water in Frozen-thawed Rocks and Multi-field Coupling Monitoring of Electrical-nuclear Magnetic Resonance | Chi Zhang |
| Kaushambi Jyoti | Testing the novel approaches of covariance localization in an ensemble-variational data assimilation system | Martin Weißmann |
| Geeth Sameera Kasthuri Arachchige | Characterization of heavy minerals in placer deposits, Sri Lanka | Lutz Nasdala |
| Niko Kompein | Anthropogenic variations and EM pulses in the magnetic gradiometer signals measured at the "Conrad Observatory" and modelling of appropriate sources | Roman Leonhardt |
| Barbara Lanthaler | Controls of greenhouse gas emissions in differently managed Austrian peatlands | Stephan Glatzel |
| Kira Lappé | The Anthropocene Surge - Mapping and Modelling Vienna´s Anthropocene | Wolfgang Kainz, Michael Wagreich |
| Sebastian Lehner | Assessing the performance impact of combining multiple downscaling and postprocessing techniques for regional climate and climate impact modelling | Leopold Haimberger |
| Wen Liu | Effects of Water-Rock Interactions on the Mechanical Properties of Rock Masses | Chi Zhang |
| Paulina Victoria Mejías-Osorio | Sedimentary record of recent glaciation in Tirol and Carinthia | Daniel Le Heron |
| Maria Elisabeth Meszar | Anthropogenic deposits and the Anthropocene of Vienna | Michael Wagreich |
| Sofija Milos | Dense Potassium-Bearing Carbonates, Structure and Stability in Relation to the Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle | Ronald Miletich |
| Mostafa Mohamed | Stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Eocene successions in Egypt | Petra Heinz, Michael Wagreich |
| Michael Moser | The middle Triassic palinspastic model of the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps (Project title: Middle-Triassic Reservoir rocks, Northern Calcareous Alps, Vienna basin) | Michael Wagreich |
| Katja Mužek | From 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 Vanani | Representativity of the Samples in Natural Fractured Network | Oscar Fernandez Bellon, Martin Schöpfer |
| Adhithiyan Neduncheran | ||
| Pauline Oberender | Quantification of (frost) weathering processes and their relevance for speleogenesis | Adrian Flores Orozco, Bernhard Grasemann |
| Mandana Pour Mohammadi Mojaveri | ||
| Helmut Pristacz | Mineralogisch-kristallographische, spektroskopische und gemmologische Untersuchungen an "Türkis" im Handel | Eugen Libowitzky |
| Peter Proßegger | Ursprung wässriger Mineralphasen und Bildung von Schmelztaschen im subcontinentalen Erdmantel unterhalb von Süd-Patagonien, Argentinien | Theodor Ntaflos, Rainer Abart |
| Alina Reininger | Atmospheric transport modelling and transport climatology | Andreas Stohl |
| Markus Rosenberger | Utilizing machine learning methods for automated cloud classification from RGB pictures taken at the Earth's surface | Martin Weißmann |
| Samuel Shayan C. Roudbar | Sedimentology and geomorphology of microplastics | Daniel Le Heron, Ronald Pöppl, Michael Wagreich |
| Thomas Rudel | ||
| Florian Sackl | Geochemical Identification of Projectils in Impact Rocks | Christian Köberl |
| Gaëlle Ségué-Passama | Reduction of the critical gaps in archaeomagnetic data | Roman Leonhardt, Chi Zhang |
| Vanessa Nicole Seitner | Homogenization of global solar radiation timeseries in Austria | Leopold Haimberger |
| Masoud Sharifi Yazdi | Reconstruction of paleoclimatic, paleoceanographic, and paleoenvironmental conditions during the Oligocene-Miocene in central Iran: Evidence from the Qom Formation | Michael Wagreich |
| Lucas Marc Simian | Calc-silicate rocks from the Moldanubian Zone: Insight into Variscan metamorphism of the Drosendorf unit (Variegated Series) | Rainer Abart, Ralf Schuster |
| Rakesh Subramanian | Inverse Modelling of Greenhouse Gases using Satellite Observations | Andreas Stohl |
| Waratchanok Suwanmanee | Characterisation of enhanced and synthetic gemstones, with focus on micro-spectroscopic techniques | Lutz Nasdala |
| Georgios Thalassinos | Ensemble data assimilation for parameter estimation applied to orographic drag schemes | Stefano Serafin, Martin Weißmann |
| Anne Tipka | Enhancing the Science and Quality of the Lagrangian particle dispersion model | Petra Seibert |
| Ulrich Voggenberger | Improved homogenisation of a comprehensive upper air data set | Leopold Haimberger |
| Zheng Wang | Revealing hydrothermal-induced mechanical deformations in natural porous media | Chi Zhang |
| Ricarda Wohlschlägl | Late Paleozoic Glacial Landsystems | Daniel Le Heron |
| Daniel Robert Woodell | Numerical modelling of restless caldera volcanoes | Bernhard Grasemann, Martin Schöpfer |
| Ivanka Woodell | Active tectonics and recent dynamics of micro-displacements along major fault systems of the Eastern Alps registered in caves | Bernhard Grasemann |
| Xinxuan Xiang | Greenhouse climate control models of the coal-bearing cycles in the Upper Cretaceous of European basins | Michael Wagreich |
| Xiangxue Zheng | Geometry and evolution of the plumbing systems beneath ocean island volcanoes: the case of La Palma, El Hierro and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) | Rainer Abart, Federico Casetta, Theodoros Ntaflos |
| Junwen Zhou | Application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) simulation in investigating unsaturated porous media in the vadose zone | Chi Zhang |
Anthroposphere PhD Students
| PhD student | Project | Supervisor(s) |
| Lukas Sebastian Behrend | Understanding Traditions to Enable Transitions: A Hermeneutic-Historical Institutionalism Perspective on Planning Practice | Meike Levin-Keitel |
| Ailín Allelen Benítez Cortés | Limits to adaptation, habitability and entangled translocal mobilities: A Case Study from Costa Rica | Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Magdalena Berger | Indigenous Geographies, Gendered Epistemologies and Climate Adaptation: A Participatory Analysis with the Nyangatom Agro-Pastoralists in the Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia | Simon Alexander Bunchuay-Peth, Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Kosita Butratana | The Migration of Thai Women to Austria: Ventures of Love and Business | Karl Husa |
| Edoardo Carraro | Landslide dynamics - from local monitoring to spatial analysis | Thomas Glade |
| Alexandra Fortacz | How to handle a crisis? Conflict in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning | Krzysztof Janowicz |
| Coline Marie Eugénie Garcia | Understanding immobility in the context of climatic and non-climatic stressors, a case study of Eastern Ethiopia | Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Alessio Giustolisi | Place-Specific Factors and the Design and Implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies | Maximilian Benner, Michaela Trippl |
| Qilei Huang | Explore and model crime perception gap in the urban environment and propose spatial planning strategies to reduce these gaps to make residents live a safer and happier urban life | Ourania Kounadi |
| Karl Huber | ||
| Yenny Alejandra Jimenez Donato | Hazard analysis of slow-moving landslides in Lower Austria | Thomas Glade |
| Jannik Kastrup | Towards socially just and green regional restructuring under transformation pressure | Michaela Trippl |
| Jiannis Kaucic | Residential Segragation and the Role of Housing Market Segmentation. The Case of Small and Medium-sized Towns in Upper Austria | Robert Musli |
| Phillip Krassnitzer | Regional planning for no net land take: Designing strategic planning processes in peri-urban Austria | Meike Levin-Keitel |
| Annemarie Lechte | (Un)Just Transition in Industrial Decarbonisation: Exploring Exnovation and Agency Dynamics in Carbon-Intensive Regions | Maximilian Benner, Michaela Trippl |
| Leonard Kwhang-Gil Lemke | Rethinking Regional Economic Resilience Amid Global Shock | Michaela Trippl, Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Maria Levints | Participation as a foundation for sustainable transport planning - dynamics, networks and legitimacy in early pubilc participation | Meike Levin-Keitel, Beate Völker |
| Zilong Liu | Knowledge on graph-based GeoEnrichment for Environmental Intelligence | Krzysztof Janowicz |
| Anna Loffing | The Potential of Civil Society Conflicts for the Mobility Transition in Rural Areas | Meike Levin-Keitel |
| Shaoqiang Meng | Landslide identification, susceptibility assessment and displacement prediction based on InSAR and machine learning | Thomas Glade |
| Elisabeth Musil | Should I stay or should i go? -(Im)mobiity aspirations and trajectories of international graduates of the University of Vienna | Michaela Trippl |
| Mikel Oleaga | The potential enabling role for knowledge-based entrepreneurship of coworking spaces in peripheral regions: a multi-dimensional analysis | Maximilian Benner |
| Raffaella Pagogna | The future in (im)mobility: aspirations and desires to migrate and the role of ICT in Ethiopia | Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| John Edward Gonzales Perez | Hotspots and hot moments: the role of connectivity and resilience science for managing human-impacted catchment systems | Ronald Pöppl |
| Stefan Premm | Rekonstruktion der historischen Waldnutzung im Einzugsgebiet der Eisenproduktion des Steirischen Erzberges im Hinblick auf deren geomorphologische Folgewirkungen | Christine Embleton-Hamann |
| Peter Alexander Rumpolt | Räumliche Mobilität bedeutender historischer Persönlichkeiten | Heinz Faßmann |
| Helena Schuch | A spatial justice perspective on evaluations of spatial distributions: combining the capability approach and the accessibility criterion | Meike Levin-Keitel, Felix Pinkert |
| Meilin Shi | Geographic Concept Drift in Research Data Management | Krzysztof Janowicz |
| Micol Sonnino | Learning Through Play: A Participatory Approach to Urban Sustainability Transformations | Kerstin Krellenberg |
| Reena Tadee | Mediatized mobility pathways of Thai Migrant Workers in South Korea | Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Mongkon Thongchaithanawut | Migration influenced by environmental change in Thailand | Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Mariana Vallejo Velázquez | Subjective geographic information through structured digital sketch mapping: developmnet, validation and visualization | Ourania Kounadi |
| James Vandenberg | Assessing the Impact of Urban Agriculture on the Resilience Capacities of Urban Food Systems: A comparative case study of 2 European cities | Kerstin Krellenberg |
| Markus Vogl | ||
| Songlin Wang | Climate Mobility Knowledge Management, Representation and Reasoning Through Geospatial Knowledge Graphs | Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Lemlem Fitwi Weldemariam | Understanding the food security-migration nexus. A case study from Tigray region, Ethiopia | Patrick Sakdapolrak |
| Till Wenzel | Compounding and cascading dynamics of geomorphic hazards and their impacts to critical infrastructure in high mountain areas - analysis of current events and future scenarios | Thomas Glade |