Mission Statement

The Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology within the Faculty of Life Sciences aims at a mechanistic understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes from organismic to ecosystem scale. Specifically, we study and teach biodiversity, symbioses, metabolic pathways, ecophysiology and ecosystem functioning in light of environmental change.

Units

Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics

Christa Schleper - Archaea Ecology and Evolution
Silvia Bulgheresi - Environmental Cell Biology
Simon Rittmann - Archaea Physiology & Biotechnology
Filipa Sousa - Genome Evolution and Ecology

Limnology

Christian Griebler - Groundwater Ecology
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction
Markus Teige - Plant signalling

Verena Ibl - Cell biology in Crop Seeds
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Steffen Waldherr Computational methods for systems biology

Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Federico Baltar - Fungal and Biogeochemical Oceanography

News

05.12.2019
 

Christa Schleper discusses the University of Vienna's question of the winter term 2019/20.

02.12.2019
 

"Exploring the microbial biotransformation of extraterrestrial material on nanometer scale"

29.11.2019
 

Fridays For Future calls the 4th worldwide strike for climate action and climate justice.

23.11.2019
 

The Highly Cited Researchers list identifies scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited...

23.11.2019
 

2 Stellen für technische Assistenten zu vergeben

22.11.2019
 

"Heterologous Expression of Proteins from the Extremely Thermophilic Thaumarchaeon Candidatus Nitrosocaldus cavascurensis in Sulfolobus solfataricus"