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
Katrin Attermeyer - Carbocrobe
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

 

 

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Palak Chaturvedi - Crops in a Changing Climate Environment
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Markus Teige - Plant signalling
Steffen Waldherr - Computational methods for systems biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction


Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

05.03.2025
 

"NASA's LIFE research coordination Network"

04.03.2025
 

04.03.2025 - 10.06.2025

Place: UBB HS1 (13:15-14:45), Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna

28.02.2025
 

Congratulations to Jan Eulering on successfully defending his MSc thesis!

25.02.2025
 

Microbial Genome Plasticity in the Face of Environmental Challenge - A volume in Progress in Biochemistry and Biotechnology

11.02.2025
 

"Über Grenzen hinaus: Frauen in der Spitzenforschung

03.02.2025
 

We're excited to welcome Noémie, an Erasmus student from ENS de Lyon, who will be with us until June 6th.

 

Great to have you on board!