Kristina and Tim participated in the pilot of the digital entrepreneurship innovation lab (ilab) in 2022. They teamed up to develop an innovative idea to have people make informed decisions about their digital footprint. They have received financial support from the University of Vienna to further develop their idea until March 2023. Here, they give … Continued
On September 21st we hosted our first Talking Charts Team Workshop with 8 exciting presentations, brainstorming sessions, and discussions about visual data communication. Talking Charts is a mixed methods WWTF-funded project exploring how charts related to climate change and COVID-19 are created and understood by researchers and public audiences. The core team of Talking Charts … Continued
This year’s 27th UN Climate Conference, the Conference of the Parties (COP27), took place from November 6th until the early morning of November 20th in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. I was able to participate in the second week at the invitation of Greiner AG, a leading global supplier of plastic and foam solutions. Expectations for … Continued
Our second week on our expedition aboard the RV Maria S. Merian brought us to northeastern Greenland into Dove Bay. In order to enter this area, we needed a certified marine mammal observer on board. Luckily, a colleague from the benthic ecology group had this certification. We saw groups of seals at the entrance of … Continued
Within the framework of the international project ECOTIP addressing tipping points in the ecology of the Arctic seas, three members of the working group on microbial oceanography from the University of Vienna were invited to join an expedition investigating major fjord systems in eastern Greenland. The expedition with the German research vessel Maria S. Merian started … Continued
Each of us has great power and it gets even greater when we act together. With this message in mind, molecular biologist Riccardo Trapannone and his colleagues started to promote sustainability at the Max Perutz Labs. Their data showed: Up to 50 per cent of the total waste from research labs could basically be recycled. … Continued
Nowras Rahhal is a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna and contributes to the fight against COVID-19 by conducting research in the field of pharmaceutical technology.
After studying in Australia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, Hamza Amin decided to join the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna as a doctoral candidate. He investigates how political and economic influences impact the journalistic culture in the Global South. © privat
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.
Less manager positions, less board seats: Anita Györfi is a PhD candidate at the Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE). In her research, she focus on the “glass ceiling effect” for women and investigates possible roots.
