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
Verena Ibl - Cell biology in Crop Seeds
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
Federico Baltar - Fungal and Biogeochemical Oceanography
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

30.04.2024
 

"Reverse Imaging Vienna: Anthropogenic Mass and Its Speculative Futures"

25.04.2024
 

We greatly appreciate all the invited speakers for sharing their inspiring work and unveiling the ocean's charm from different perspectives!

12.04.2024
 

Congratulations, Arindam!

Arindam Ghatak receives Young Investigator Awards 2023 #YIA2023 from University of Vienna, Austria.

 

12.04.2024
 

The recent research work lead by T Shanmugam and team from Goethe University Frankfurt in collaboration with P Chaturvedi, A Ghatak and W Weckwerth...

12.04.2024
 

The recent research was published by S Zhang, A Ghatak, H Kramml, P Chaturvedi, and W Weckwerth in collaboration with the other partners from China,...

12.04.2024
 

The recent research lead by N Castejón and team from Faculty of Chemistry in collaboration with P Chaturvedi, A Ghatak and W Weckwerth published this...