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...
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Visiting Researcher – Anna Walentowitz
We welcome Anna Walentowitz, who is doing her post-doc at University of Bayreuth in Germany. In her research she focuses on island biogeography and invasion...
Lisa Tedeschi successfully defended her PhD thesis and won an award!
At the end of May 2024, Lisa Tedeschi successfully defended her joint PhD thesis at Sapienza University of Rome. The thesis is titled "The ecology of alien...
Introducing our new colleague: Fabio Mologni
We are happy to welcome Fabio Mologni to our team in Vienna. Fabio recently started as a post doctoral researcher in our new BiodivERsA+ Project BioMonI...
New visiting student: David Umhauer
We welcome David, who will be doing a two-month internship in our Division. He will be collaborating with Adrián Garcia-Rodriguez to develop a database of...
Visiting Researcher: Gabriel Petuel
We welcome Gabriel Petuel as a visiting researcher at our division. Gabriel is a PhD candidate at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of...
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...
Michael Glaser successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Today Michael Glaser defended his thesis "Past, present and future weeds.", supervised by Franz Essl and Stefan Dullinger (Uni Vienna). Michael had...
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...
Division group retreat in Weissenkirchen in Wachau
From the 28. - 29.10.2023 we had out annual division retreat. This time we met in the picturesque village of Weissenkirchen in the midst of the UNESCO World...
Introducing PhD student Jennifer Hennenfeind
Jennifer recently joined our group and she will study how biodiversity and climate change influences human conflicts across the globe. My research focuses...
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...
