The University of Vienna’s “Semester Question” focusses on the communication of its research to the broader public. It started in March 2016 and runs throughout the semester. Every semester a question is posed to expert researchers in order to gather their answers. The answers provided aim to give insight into the daily work of a researcher and to demonstrate the relevance of the University of Vienna as an institution of higher education as well as its importance to society in general. Here you can find an overview (in German) of all the semester questions. Some researcher also blogged about their answers.
Atakan Aral is research fellow at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Vienna. He develops smart sensors that track water quality in rivers and create early-warning signals to fight river pollution.
Our “greying world”: In her blogpost Reynalda Cordova, doctoral student at the department of Nutritional Sciences, addresses the connection between the way we eat and cancer risk, or potential cancer development pathways in terms of aging.
Learning the grammar of a language means more than just learning its system of speech sounds and linguistic forms. In her semester question-blogpost Soonja Choi, research professor at the Department of Linguistics, explores the relationship between language and thought.
How did coral reefs respond to warmer climate periods in the past? A research team of the University of Vienna wants to find out at the Egyptian Red Sea.
Iacopo Morchio is assistant professor at the Department of Economics. In this blog post he describes his current research on recent trends in European labour markets, and how they relate to this term’s question: “How will we work tomorrow?“. I have always been particularly interested in how economic systems, and the incentives they create, shape … Continued
