PhDs
Cosmos PhD Students
- Christine Ackerl: Accretion Histories of Galaxies from Integrated-Light Spectroscopy - Supervisors: Glenn van de Ven, Ryan Leaman
- Francesca Bonanomi: Origin and evolution of fiber networks: comparing ALMA observations and simulations - Supervisor: Alvaro Hacar
- Vyacheslav Chubenko: Radiative transfer and intensity distribution in Cepheids
- Bianca-Iulia Ciocan: Cluster galaxies as probes for environmental processes - Supervisor: Bodo Ziegler
- Bibiana Fichtinger: Analysis of stellar winds of solar-like stars with the extended very large array (EVLA) to define mass loss rates for the young Sun and a possible solution for the Faint Young Sun Paradox - Supervisor: Manuel Güdel
- Horst Foidl: Structure Formation in the Lambda-SFDM-Model as an Alternative to the Lambda-CDM-Model - Supervisors: Tanja Rindler- Daller, Werner Zeilinger
- Laurane Fréour: Multiple stellar populations in globular clusters - Supervisor: Alice Zocchi
- Josefa Grossschedl: From Dark Clouds To Bright Clusters - Star Formation in Orion - Supervisor: Joao Alves
- Lukas Gehrig: The role of the innermost regions of protoplanetary disks - Supervisor: Manuel Güdel
- Matthias Kühtreiber: A Multi-Phase Gas Description and its Implications for Numerical Models of Dwarf Galaxies - Supervisor: Gerhard Hensler
- Erich Hartig: A Study of Long Period Variables in Globular and Open Clusters NGC 6791, NGC 6266, NGC 6441 - Supervisor: Thomas Lebzelter
- Gabor-Imre Herbst-Kiss: Prestellar core collision, dynamics and evolution: origin of the CMF and the loss of angular momentum - Supervisor: Joao Alves
- Nikolaus Heu: Internal angular momentum distribution in main sequence stars - Supervisor: Werner Wolfgang Weiss
- Gwenael van Looveren: Planetary atmospheres under the evolving star - Supervisors: Manuel Güdel, Colin Johnstone, Kristina Kislyakova, Sudeshna Boro Saikia
- Michael Mach: Activity in Galaxies over the Hubble Age A Science Case for METIS (Mid-infrared E-ELT Imager and Spectrograph) - Supervisor: Werner Zeilinger
- Marko Mecina: Detached shells - probing the mass loss history of evolved stars - Supervisor: Franz Kerschbaum
- Michael Michaux: High-order methods in computational cosmology - Supervisor: Oliver Hahn
- Laura Posch: The 3D space motion of the local Interstellar Medium - Supervisors: Joao Alves, Stefan Meingast, Alvaro Hacar, Herve Bouy, Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman
- Florian Ragossnig: Evolution of primordial protoplanetary atmospheres during and after disk phase - Supervisor: Manuel Güdel
- Vlad Rastau: Outflows from asymptotic giant branch stars - Supervisors: Franz Kerschbaum, Josef Hron, Matthias Maercker, Sofia Ramstedt
- Bastian Sander: Star formation in high-velocity clouds under extreme condition of the hot halo gas - Supervisor:Gerhard Hensler
- Andrea Socci: ALMA observations of complex fiber networks - Supervisors: Alvaro Hacar, Mario Tafalla
- Daniel Steiner: Magnetic fields in protoplanetary disks - Supervisor: Manuel Güdel
- Cameren Swiggum: A paradigm change in the making: the origin and evolution of the Radcliffe Wave - Supervisors: Joao Alves, Stefan Meingast, Catherine Zucker, Alyssa Goodman
- Tadeja Versic: Improving the stellar-to-halo-mass ratio and probing the evolution of early-type galaxies with discrete tracers - Supervisors: Sabine Thater, Glenn van de Ven
- Agata Wislocka: Simulating the Dark Side of the universe - Supervisor: Oliver Hahn
- Maximilian ZImmernmann: High resolution n-body simulations of the dynamical
evolution of the late stages of terrestrial planet formation in binary
star systems - Supervisors: Oliver Hahn, Elke Pilta-Lohinger
Earth PhD Students
- Seyed Hamidreza Azami: Sedimentology and Chemostratigraphy of Upper Paleocene to Eocene Strata in the Zagros Basin, SW-Iran: Implications for Sea Level Fluctuations around the PETM Interval - Supervisor: Michael Wagreich
- Katharina Baier: Energy and Heat Transport in the Atmosphere - Supervisor: Andreas Stohl
- Andreas Bechtold: Investigation of lunar melt breccia - Supervisor: Christian Köberl
- Hiro Behnam: Organic Phosphorus Mineralization - Supervisor: Wolfgang Wanek
- Ge Bian: The systematics of remanent magnetization in oceanic gabbro: coupling across scales - Supervisor: Rainer Abart
- Sara El Youbi: Distinguishing anthropogenic from natural nanoparticles in river sediments - Supervisors: Thilo Hofmann, Frank von der Kammer
- Katharina Enigl: Improving sustainability levels of adaption programs through the application of decision theoretical techniques accounting for future changes in risk landscapes due to accelerated climate change - Supervisors: Christoph Matulla, Leopold Haimberger
- Mohammad Fallah Kheirkhah: Identifying hydrocarbon seepages in offshore and onshore frontier exploration areas - Supervisors: Bernhard Grasemann, Jörn Ludwig Peckmann
- Jean-Guillaume Feignon: Petrography, shock metamorphism, and geochemistry of the impactites from the Chicxulub impact crater peak-ring IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 drill core - Supervisor: Christian Köberl
- Andreas Gerner: Self-Noise of Seismic Sensors: Aspects & Parameters of Three-Sensor Coherency-Analysis - Supervisors: Bernhard Grasemann, Wolfgang Leonhardt
- Carlos Fernando De Gracia: Cretaceous Fossil Record of Northern South American fishes (Actinopterygii) in Global context During the Oceanic Anoxic Events - Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet
- Paula Granero: Upper Cretaceous calcareous nannofossil assemblage changes and events evaluated on a Milankovitch cycle resolution - Supervisor: Michael Wagreich
- Georg Gravogl: Charakterisierung und Optimierung von thermochemischen Energiespeichermaterialien unter erhöhten Drücken - Supervisors: Ronald Miletich-Pawliczek, Peter Weinberger
- Gerit Griesmeier: Quaternary geology of the Großsölk Valley and surroundings - Supervisor: Daniel Le Heron
- Mario Habermüller: Fold-and-Thrust Structures in the Northern Calcareous Alps: Quantitative Analysis at the Alpine Front - Supervisor: Bernhard Grasemann
- Sarah Haghjoo: CFA-derived zeolites for removal of POPs from contaminated media - Supervisor: Christian Lengauer
- David Andreas Heuser: Advancing the petrochronology of temperature-dominated metamorphic processes by testing and enhancing the consistency and reproducibility of accessory mineral petrology - Supervisor: Urs Kloetzli
- Johannes Hörner: Near-Snowball Earth states and their implications for the deep-time climate of Earth and the habitability of extrasolar planets - Supervisors: Aiko Voigt, Dorian Abbot
- Marianne Sophie Hollinetz: Low-grade metamorphic units in the Eastern Alps: An important tectonic transition zone - Supervisor: Bernhard Grasemann
- Zhaoliang Hou: Fault zone microstructures and the associated fluid-rock interactions in highly porous rocks - Supervisor: Bernhard Grasemann
- Julian Huemer: Middle Triassic "Placunopsis" (Pteriomorpha) bioherms: implications for paleoecology and evolution of the cementing life habit. - Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
- Christoph Kettler: Micro- and Macrostructural analyses of sediments originating from deep time glaciations - Supervisor: Daniel LeHeron
- Claudia Klimpfinger: Foraging in the Deep: An anatomic-physiological approach on the specializations of deep sea Chondrichthyes of the present and past - Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet
- Tanja Knoll: Distribution of permian pegmatites and spodumene pegmatites in the Austroalpine Units - geochemical and geochronological investigations - Supervisors: Rainer Abart, Ralf Schuster
- Victoria Kohn: Mineral inclusions in garnet: correlating shape and crystallographic orientation relationships with compositional and interface characteristics to infer inclusion origins - Supervisors: Rainer Abart, Gerlinde Habler
- Niko Kompein: Anthropogenic variations and EM pulses in the magnetic gradiometer signals measured at the "Conrad Observatory" and modelling of appropriate sources - Supervisor: Roman Leonhardt
- Lukas Kugler: Satellite data assimilation for convective-scale numerical weather prediction - Supervisor: Martin Weissmann
- Jan Philip Landwehrs: Earth System Modeling of Critical Steps in the Evolution of the Mesozoic Paleoclimate - Supervisors: Georg Feulner, Michael Wagreich
- Kira Lappé: The anthropocene Surge. Mapping and Modelling Vienna´s Anthropocene - Supervisors: Wolfgang Kainz, Michael Wagreich
- Sebastian Lehner: Optimizing downscaling performance and plant predictions with ensemble-based statistical postprocessing - Supervisors: Christoph Matulla, Leopold Haimberger
- Eric Löberich: Constraints on the origin of seismic anisotropy in the upper mantle: Insights from teleseismic body waves and ambient noise surface waves - Supervisor: Götz Bokelmann
- Petra Lukeneder: Morphometry, taphonomy and geochemistry of late Triassic Coleoids from the Polzberg Konservatlagerstätte near Lunz am See (Carnian, Reingraben Shales, Lower Austria) - Supervisor: Martin Zuschin
- Johannes Mayer: Evolution of Surface Energy Fluxes over Western Boundary Currents in a Warming Climate - Supervisor: Leopold Haimberger
- Franziska Mayrhofer: Crevassing and folding in alpine glaciers - Supervisors: Bernhard Grasemann, Martin Schöpfer
- Rouven Metz: Biogeochemical Mechanisms Influencing the Bioavailability of P and Fe from Vivianite - Supervisors: Stefan Kraemer, Walter Schenkeveld
- Sofija Milos: Dense Potassium-Bearing Carbonates – Structure and Stability in Relation to the Earth's Deep Carbon Cycle - Supervisors: Ronald Miletich, Anna Likhacheva, Sergey Rashchenko, Anton Shatskiy
- Michael Moser: The middle Triassic palinspastic model of the eastern Northern Calcareous Alps - Supervisor: Michael Wagreich
- Majid Mostaghelchi: From ore mineral to nanoparticles; development towards the mass production of iron oxy/hydroxide nanoparticles - Supervisor: Christian Lengauer
- Asma Nasir: Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment of Austria and the surrounding regions integrating seismic site conditions and topographic slope - Supervisors: Kurt Decker, Bernhard Grasemann
- Fatemeh Nazari Vanani: Fracture Modelling - Supervisor: Bernhard Grasemann
- Artemii Novoselov: ThunderSeis: seismo-acoustic coupling and properties of thunder induced signals - Supervisors: Götz Bokelmann, Manfred Dornnger
- Pauline Oberender: Quantification of (frost) weathering processes and their relevance for speleogenesis - Supervisors: Adrian Flores Orozco, Bernhard Grasemann
- Markus Palzer: Stratigraphy, facies, provenance and tectonic interpretation of the Miocene sediments in the Lower Austrian Molasse Basin - Supervisor: Michael Wagreich
- Peter Proßegger: Ursprung wässriger Mineralphasen und Bildung von Schmelztaschen im subcontinentalen Erdmantel unterhalb von Süd-Patagonien, Argentinien - Supervisors: Theodor Ntaflos, Rainer Abart
- Stefano Peres:Crystal Clustering in Magmas: Mechanisms and Petrological significance - Supervisors: Rainer Abart, Tom Griffiths
- Patrick Raffael Pesek: Usage of sintering aids for coarse pottery clays at low firing temperature - Supervisor: Christian Lengauer
- Danielle Rushworth:Methanotrophic Cu acquisition from sulfides - Supervisor: Stefan Kraemer
- Patrizia Marie Pfohl: Aging of microplastics for innovative applications - Supervisors: Thilo Hofmann
- Anne Philipp
- Harald Pimminger: Kalzination von Brucit und Magnesit und Sinterung von Periklas - Supervisor: Rainer Abart
- Lorenz Schwab: Mercury isotope ratios as a tool to trace and quantify Hg species transformations in contaminated soils and aquifers - Supervisors: Stefan Kraemer, Jan Wiederhold
- Dorian Spät: Past and future tropical rainfall changes through the lens of storm-resolving climate modeling - Supervisors: Aiko Voigt, Michela Biasutti
- Roman Stiftner:Innovative methodology for estimating Reserves / Resource data of by-elements from Copper deposits using the example of Selenium - Supervisor: Leopold Weber
- Daria Tatsii: On-line Lagrangian modelling of atmospheric transport processes - Supervisor: Andreas Stohl
- Anne Tipka: Enhancing the Science and Quality of the Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART - Supervisor: Petra Seibert
- Ilya Tishchenko: Evolution and architecture of mass transport deposits in Western Black Sea Basin - Supervisors: Michael Wagreich, Gabor Tari
- Matee Ullah: A theoretical and model-based petrochronological-thermochronological approach towards a better understanding of the complexities in geochronological data - Supervisor: Urs Klötzli
- Jaime Andrés Villafaña Navea: New insights into Cenozoic elasmobranchs (sharks, rays, and skates) from Europe and South America with comments on diversity patterns - Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet
- Helene Walch: Heteroaggregation of engineered nanoparticles with natural suspended particulate matter - Supervisors: Thilo Hofmann, Frank von der Kammer
- Martin Vojta: Invers Modeling of Greenhouse Gases - Supervisor: Andreas Stohl
- He Wang: The fate of pathogens during riverbank filtation - Supervisor: Christian Griebler
- Susanna Winkelbauer: The Arctic's energy and water budgets: Evaluation of trends, seasonalities and interannual to decadal variabilities in observations and climate models - Supervisors: Leopold Haimberger, Michael Mayer
- Daniel Robert Woodell: Numerical modelling of restless caldera volcanoes - Supervisors: 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 - Supervisor: Bernhard Grasemann
Anthroposphere PhD Students
- Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer: Innovation-based regional restructing: Towards a systemic and integrative understanding of regional indistrial path development - Supervisor: Michaela Trippl
- Carolin Biberger: Translocality and Skipped Generation Households in Northeast-Thailand - Supervisor: Patrick Sakdapolrak
- Kosita Butratana: The Migration of Thai Women to Austria: Ventures of Love and Business - Supervisor: Karl Husa
- Rachael Kuuipo Diniega: The Impact of Translocal Social Remittances on the Environment in Morocco - Supervisor: Patrick Sakdapolrak
- Stefanie Döringer: Kleinstädtische Ökonomien im Kontext von Peripherisierungsprozessen: eine akteurzentrierte Analyse ausgewählter Kleinstädte in Österreich. - Supervisor: Robert Musil
- Alexandra Frangenheim: New regional industrial path development in the context of societal dynamics: Multi-scalar influences, inter-path dependencies and barriers to change - Supervisor: Michaela Trippl
- Michael Friesenecker: Alltag 'Gentrification'? Neue (relationale) Sichtweisen auf Wohnen, Konsumieren und Zusammenleben am Beispiel Wiens - Supervisor: Heinz Faßmann
- Coline Garcia: Understanding the environmental impact on migration through the use of longitudinal data - Supervisors: Patrick Sakdapolrak, Benjamin Sultan
- Joshua Grigsby: Plan B: Urban Planning for the Post-Carbon Age - Supervisor: Heinz Faßmann
- Alessio Giustolisi: Place-Specific Factors and the Design and Implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies - Supervisor: Michaela Trippl
- Benedikt Hajek: Open Data for Topographic Maps - Supervisor: Wolfgang Kainz
- Stefan Haselberger: Disturbance and Stability - Quantification ofbiogeomorphic feedbacks in the glacier forefield - Supervisor: Sabine Kraushaar
- Damir Hatunic: Spatio-temporal distribution of landslide-triggering rainfall thresholds - Supervisor: Thomas Glade
- Haoyuan Hong: Landslide susceptibility mapping using integration models - Supervisor: Thomas Glade
- Jiannis Kaucic:European Cross-Border Cooperation Stages of territorial integration and impacts on regional development - Supervisors: Axel Priebs, Christophe Sohn
- Simon Lipburger: Nachhaltige Tourismusmobilität durch Raumplanung - Supervisor: Heinz Faßmann
- Leonhard Lemke: The covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for transformation in rural areas in Austria and Thailand: A comparative analysis - Supervisors: Michaela Trippl, Patrick Sakdapolrak
- Nina Marlovits: Simulation of cascading landslides: a combination of models for fall and flow processes - Supervisors: Thomas Glade, Martin Mergili
- Pedro Henrique Muniz Lima: National scale landslide susceptibily maps for Austria:Scientific challenges within applicable solutions - Supervisor: Thomas Glade
- Raffaella Pagogna: The future in (im)mobility: aspirations and desires to migrate and the role of ICT in Ethiopia - Supervisor: Patrick Sakdapolrak
- Stefan Premm: Rekonstruktion der historischen Waldnutzung im Einzugsgebiet der Eisenproduktion des Steirischen Erzberges im Hinblick auf deren geomorphologische Folgewirkungen - Supervisor: Christine Embleton-Hamann
- Daniel Raithofer: GW-Unterricht zum Umgang mit Krise und Veränderung - Ein Beitrag zur Resilienzförderung von Schüler*innen - Supervisor: Christiane Hintermann
- William Ries: Earthquake triggered landslide distributions - from data gathering and analysis in New Zealand to runout and susceptibility assessments in Austria - Supervisor: Thomas Glade
- Peter Alexander Rumpolt: Räumliche Mobilität bedeutender historischer Persönlichkeiten - Supervisor: Heinz Faßmann
- Martina Schorn: Handlungsstrategien für eine jugendorientierte Regionalentwicklung - Supervisor: Hans-Heinrich Blotevogel, Heinz Faßmann
- Markus Speringer
- Margherita Johanna Stumvoll: Embedding Landslide Monitoring Data into Theoretical Landscape Development Concepts (Landslide Geomorphology) - Supervisor: Thomas Glade
- Lemlem Fitwi Weldemariam: Understanding the food security-migration nexus. A case study from Tigray region, Ethiopia - Supervisor: Patrick Sakdapolrak