Student Representatives
Coordinating Student
| Name | PhD thesis |
|---|---|
| Victoria Als | Ant-fungi mutualism in Lasius fuliginosus |
| Matteo Anderle | Investigating different pressures for bird communities in the Central Alps |
| Laura Barraclough | Linking climate and social changes for identifying adaption pathways in Alpine forests |
| Friederike Barkmann | Distribution and development of butterflies as biodiversity and environmental indicators |
| Lisa Capponi | Drought, heat, and grassland resilience under global change |
| Zhiyi Chen | Susceptibility of Alpine forest tree species to first- and second-order fire effects |
| Filippo Colla | Evaluating interactions between arthropods and microorganism in subalpine and alpine extensive pastures along elevational gradient |
| Harald Crepaz | Measuring and simulating global change impacts on alpine vegetation |
| Anna de Vries | A multiple constraints approach to gross primary productivity of a Pinus sylvestris stand |
| Marion Fink | Phloem formation under drought. A developmental and anatomical perspective |
| Daniel Gattinger | Dispersal of antibiotic resistant microbes in remote cryospheric and urbanized habitats |
| Vinayaka Hegde | The Evolution of Lymnaea stagnalis snails under heatwaves and variation in resource availability |
| Lorenz Hänchen | Spatio-temporal variability in water availability and demand in the Peruvian Andes |
| Valentin Heimer | Cryptic evolution and diversification of Luzula sect. Luzula (Juncaceae) in the grasslands of the Eastern Alps (LUZALP) |
| Veronika Hierlmeier | protectAlps - Alps, persistent pollutants, and insects |
| Tania Holtzem | Daphnia Resilience - Comparison of genomic and functional resilience of water flea populations in Lake Constance, Lake Zurich and Lake Walen under eutrophication and oligotrophication |
| Lesley Huymann | Diversity and Evolution of the ectomycorrhizal dermocyboid Cortinarius species in a global context |
| Lumnesh Swaroop Kumar Joseph | Individual and interactive effects of elevated CO2, warming and drought on the phenology of mountain grassland |
| Dominik Kaplenig | Adaption and acclimation to alpine habitats viewed through different populations of Arabidopsis arenosa |
| Georgios Katsianis | Evolutionary potential in responses to periodic heatwaves in the freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis |
| Timo Knüver | Drought stress and recovery in adult and juvenile Norway spruce and European beech: effects of stress duration and species composition |
| Andreas Martin Kollert | Development of high-resolution maps of snow-cover and soil-temperature for use in species distribution models at a high alpine study site |
| Lucía Laorden Camacho | Effects of shrub encroachment on ecosystem services in mountain grasslands due to land -use and climate change |
| Silvia Lembo | The effects of lower air pressure conditions on upwards shifting mountain ecosystems: how do plants-soil react? |
| Edoardo Mandolini | Microbial Interactions in Snow Covered Habitats |
| Clemens Maylandt | Elucidating the evolutionary history and taxonomy of two widespread steppe plants: Astragalus onobrychis and Astragalus exscapus |
| Rubén Morón Asensio | Bioorthogonal labelling as a tool for detecting and following the synthesis of cyanobacterial toxins and bioactive peptides |
| Carlotta Musso | Hydraulics of Alpine shrubs suffering winter stress |
| Sophia Mützel | Atmospheric Deposition and Interaction of Microplastics in High Mountains |
| Markus Neurauter | Mycorrhizal mutualists and potential feedback effect on host plants under drought |
| Lena Nicklas | Winners and losers of climate change in the Central and South Alps |
| Robert Niederheiser | Mapping alpine vegetation location properties |
| Lisa Obwegs | Responses of wild bee communities to elevational, land-use, and urbanization gradients in the Central Alps |
| Ambre Placide | Phenotypic plasticity in alpine copepods: acclimatization to environmental stress on a spatiotemporal scale |
| Hanna Pritsch | Alpine limnology and its relevance for ecosystem services under climate change |
| Fabrizzio Protti-Sanchez | Sources of soil CO2 emissions in subarctic grasslands exposed to warming |
| Špela Pungaršek | Polyploidisation in Luzula, Euphorbia and Knautia |
| Maria Ralser | Control and growth of extracellular ice in plants |
| Katharina Ramskogler | Short and long term feedback between vegetation and morphodynamic processes |
| Vitali Razumov | Eco-evolutionary dynamics of planktonic grazers in response to anthropogenic environmental change in peri-Alpine lakes |
| David Reinthaler | Interactive effects of warming, elevated CO2 and extreme climatic events on C-cycling in a temperate grassland |
| Hans Rund | Development and implementation of eDNA monitoring methods for fish in the alpine region and comparison with traditional ecological status assessment methods |
| Theresa Magdalena Rzehak | Key Factors for Microbial Diversity in Alpine Soils |
| Judith Sophie Schmack | BVOC dynamics between a Pinus sylvestris stand and the atmosphere in response to drought |
| Tania Patricia Sosa Jiron | Effects of fragmentation on river network functioning |
| Stegner Moritz | Legacy effects of drought and forest fires on energy metabolism and defence mechanisms of mountain forest trees |
| Elena Stoll | Effects of global changes on N2O fluxes in mountain grasslands |
| Elena Tello-Garcia | Implications of drought on water use strategies and arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance in Alpine grasslands |
| Svenja Trautmann | Cryogeomorphic Processes and their Impact on Spatial Soil Heterogeneity |
| Alex Tunas Corzon | Drought legacy effects on carbon and water relations of deciduous and evergreen trees |
| Maria Chiara Vulcano | The role of phytobenthic fatty acids in glacial streams ecosystems under alpine deglaciation |
| Sebastiano Zanini | Crop pollination across spatial scales: integrated assessment of related ecosystem services |
| Teresa Zeni | Role of genome duplication in changing mountain landscapes |
Faculty of Biology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Božo Frajman
Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Andreas Holzinger
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ilse Kranner
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan Mayr
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gilbert Neuner
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Walter Oberhuber
Assoc. Prof. Thomas Roach
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Peter Schönswetter
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Michael Bahn
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Leopold Füreder
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georg Leitinger
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Psenner
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Birgit Sattler
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Geogr. Uta Schirpke
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Birgit Schlick-Steiner
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Julia Seeber
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriel Singer
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ruben Sommaruga
Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Florian Steiner
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Tappeiner
Mag. Dr., Priv.-Doz. Barbara Tartarotti-Alfreider
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Erich Tasser (affiliated)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Georg Wohlfahrt
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Paul Illmer
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Sigrid Neuhauser
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ursula Peintner
Research Department for Limnology
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Martin Hahn
Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Rainer Kurmayer
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Otto Seppälä
Dr. Claus-Peter Stelzer
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Josef Wanzenböck
Faculty of Geo- and Atmospheric Sciences
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Clemens Geitner
Ass.-Prof., PD Mag. Dr. Martin Rutzinger
Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN)
Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Thomas Karl
Dr. Barbara Beikirchner, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Helmut Berger, Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology, Salzburg, Austria
Dr. Agnes Bouchez, INRA, France
Dr. Othmar Buchner, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ass. Prof. Matteo Dainese, Università di Verona, Italy
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan Dullinger, CVL, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Arwyn Edwards, University of Aberystwyth
Dr. Andrea Ganthaler, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Notburga Gierlinger, BOKU, Austria
Dr. Albin Hammerle, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Eliza Harris, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Johannes Ingrisch PhD, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Prof. Dr. Ivan Janssens, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Prof. Dr. Ulf Karsten, University of Rostock, Germany
Dr. Filip Kolar, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Dr. Catherine Larose, École Centrale de Lyon, France
Dr. Reinhard Lentner, Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung, Austria
Fabien Maussion PhD, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN), University of Innsbruck
Mirco Migliavacca PhD, Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Dr. Andrea Mondoni, Università di Pavia, Italy
Dr. Markus Möst, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Sabine Rosner, BOKU, Austria
Dr. Johannes Rüdisser, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Nadine Rühr, Karsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Mag. Dr. Bettina Sonntag, Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Matthias Stegner, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
ao.Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. Gerhard Tomedi, Department of Archeologies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr. Sonja Wipf, WSL, Switzerland
Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, BOKU, Austria
| Name | PhD Thesis |
|---|---|
| Pablo Aguilar | Bacterial diversity and community composition from high-elevation aquatic ecosystems |
| Siegfried Aigner | Stress responses in phylogenetically distant green algae from extreme habitats: Ecophysiological and molecular adaption in free living green algae and isolated lichen photobionts |
| Marlies Ausserlechner | Archaeobotanical analyses of Bronze and Iron Age burnt-offering sites in the subalpine and alpine belt of the Eastern Alps |
| Andreas Bär | Effects of forest fires on trees in Alpine ecosystems |
| Julie Blommaert | Mechanisms and significance of genome size variation in rotifers |
| Teofana Chonova | Effect of pollutants on microbial communities in environmental biofilms |
| Matsapume Detcharoen | Effects of Wolbachia bacteria on the new host Drosophila nigrosparsa |
| Manuel Ebner | A social-ecological system perspective on mountain lakes: integrated assessment for sustainable management |
| Nora Els | Airborne inoculation sources of cryospheric microbial communities in the Alps and in the Arctic |
| Elia Guariento | Biodiversity and trophic structures of soil invertebrates along management intensity gradients |
| Marlene Haider | Genetic monitoring of grouse populations for conservation biology using non-invasive sampling: case studies from the eastern European Alps |
| Lisa Huber | Modelling ecosystem services in Alpine areas with special emphasis on human impacts |
| Patrick Krapf | Population genetics, social organisation, and genomics in Tetramorium ants |
| Xiaoteng Lu | Functional ecology and biodiversity of planktonic ciliates |
| Vera Margreiter | Germination, establishment & phenotypic plasticity of alpine plants |
| Kathiravan Mohamed Meeran | Interactive effects of multiple global change drivers on belowground carbon allocation and coupling in grassland |
| Florian Oberleitner | Effects of drought legacies and compound stress on mountain grassland and forest |
| Charlotte Permann | Sexual reproduction in Zygnematophyceae (Charophyta) |
| Gregor Pichler | The lichen symbiosis: Metabolites involved in lichenization |
| Nadine Präg | Effects of plants on methanogenic Archaea and methanotrophic Bacteria |
| Katharina Scholz | Influence of climate extremes on the carbon balance of a pre-alpine lake |
| Alberto Scotti | Employing macroinvertebrates for the analysis of small alpine catchments affected by different anthropogenic impacts |
| Matthias Stegner | The role of cell wall attributes in ice management and freeze dehydration of plant cells |
| Simon Tscholl | Analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for mountain viticulture |
| Roland Vogt | Fate and effect of waste water-borne manufactured nanomaterials in aquatic ecosystems |
| Klemens Weisleitner | Ecology of cryospheric habitats in polar regions |
| Brenda Maria Zoderer | Identifying and mapping people's preferences of Alpine landscapes |
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Oeggl
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Weisse
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Brigitta Erschbamer