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International (EN)
 

From April till July 2021, Sabine Henry is visiting professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research. For more than twenty years, the...

Research (EN)
 

When drained peatlands are used for agriculture, they release a high amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The effects of rewetting such...

Research (EN)
 

An international team of researchers led by Julia Türtscher from the Department of Palaeontology at the University of Vienna found out that modern...

Visiting (EN)
 

The Faculty welcomes Eric Gaidos (astronomer and geobiologist) and Stephen Mojzsis (geologist and geoastrophysicist) as Ida Pfeiffer professors in the...

Research (EN)
 

Two of the successful EU / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellows - Erika Faigen and Blaž Gasparini will join our Faculty within the coming months.

Research (EN)
 

Research team with participation of Saikiran Tharimena from the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics published finings in "Nature": An upsurge of...

Research (EN)
 

In a new study, an international research team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes an exceptionally well-preserved...

Research (EN)
 

The faculty mourns the death of the mineralogist and crystallographer Ekkehart Tillmanns, who passed away unexpectedly at the end of December. Our...

Research (EN)
 

An international team led by Paolo G. Albano from the Department of Palaeontology quantified a dramatic biodiversity collapse of up to 95 per cent of...

Research (EN)
 

In her PhD thesis Tadeja Veršič from the Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences (VISESS) aims to unravel the mystery of dark matter....

Research (EN)
 

Nature Communications Earth and Environment Paper with participation of geologist Michael Wagreich - Press Release of coordinating author Jaia...

Research (EN)
 

A research team around astronomer Stefan Meingast at the University of Vienna has revealed the existence of massive stellar halos, termed coronae,...