“Warum Biodiversität jetzt wichtig ist”: Franz Essl on “Die Furche”
Franz Essl has recently written an invited commentary on the importance of biodiversity policy in the well-known Austrian weekly magazine "Die Furche". You...
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Franz Essl in conversation with Philipp Blom
The renowned historian Philipp Blom has invited Franz Essl to his BlomCast Podcast series. The conversation focused on the role of tipping points in science...
Franz Essl has again been recognized as Highly Cited Scientist!
Clarivate has published its 2024-edition of the list of Highly Cited Scientists. This list includes researchers who have authored multiple Highly Cited Papers...
Online article (SWR) on lag effects in biological invasions [in german]
There are often decades between the introduction of new species and their massive spread. This makes it difficult to assess the risk and protect native...
Italian Knowledge Leaders Legacy award won by Lisa Tedeschi
We congratulate our colleague Lisa Tedeschi, who, along with other 7 junior academics won the the prestigious "Italian Knowledge Leaders Legacy" award, "by...
Interview with Franz Essl in “Matt spricht mit..”
In the W24 talk format "Matt spricht mit ..." (in German only), presenter Gerald Matt invites people to talk to him and meets local and international...
Austrian Biodiversity Council meets President Van der Bellen
Experts from the Austrian Biodiversity Council used the opportunity of their visit to President Alexander Van der Bellen to draw attention to the increasing...
Franz Essl is one of eleven ‘highly cited scientists’ of the University Vienna
This year's list of the world's most cited researchers in 2023 includes eleven scientists from the University of Vienna. They conduct research at the Centre...
Newsfeature – Early career scientists from our group
Recently three of our group members have been mentioned in the science magazine Heureka of the Austrian news outlet Falter. Great to see their exciting...
New Birdlife Podcast Episode with Franz Essl [in German]
In the latest episode of the Birdlife Podcast 'Gezwitscher', Gábor Wichmann (director of BirdLife Austria and Lisa Lugerbauer) talk with Franz Essl about the...
Young Investigator Award for Daijun Liu
We are happy and proud to announce that Daijun Liu received the Young Investigator Award 2023 from the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Vienna. This...
“Alien species take over Vienna – economic costs are enormous”
Recently, Franz Essl was interviewed by the Krone Newspaper about the impacts of biological invasions in Austria and globally. The article gives some...
New Commentary – Impacts of invasive chytrid fungi on amphibians
In a recent contribution our colleague Adrián García, in collaboration with Héctor Zumbado from the University of California at Riverside, has published a...
AlienScenarios received the prestigious Biodiversa Prize for Excellence and Impact
Our work on future scenarios of biological invasions was recently recognized with this important award. As part of the prize, a nice video animation was...
Franz Essl is Austrian Scientist of the Year 2022!
Franz Essl was voted 'Scientist of the Year 2022' by the Austrian Club of Education and Science Journalists - honoring his commitment to communicating science...
