Personnel
Administration
Research group leaders
Name
Position
Contact us
Molecular ecology and ecophysiology of algae (cyanobacteria)
PostDocs & research assistants
Name
Position
Contact /
Molecular & cytogenetic evolution of asexual aquatic organisms
Diploma/MSc and PhD/PhD students
Name / thesis
Position
Contact /
Rubén Morón-Asensio / PhD
Molecular ecology and physiology of algae
David Nayer / MSc
Fish ecology
Christian Spanner / PhD
Ecology and taxonomy of ciliates
Eco-evolutionary dynamics
Nikita Borodin / PhD
Ecology and taxonomy of algae
Technical staff (incl. third-party funding)
Name
Position
Contact /
Building and technical maintenance (part-time)
Laboratory technician, fish ecology (part-time)
Laboratory technician, ecology and taxonomy of ciliates (part-time)
Jaqueline Lederer
Laboratory technician, aquatic evolutionary ecology
Laboratory Technician, Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics (part-time)
Laboratory Technician, Molecular & Cytogenetic Evolution of Asexual Aquatic Organisms & Experimental Evolutionary Ecology
Laboratory technician, environmental microbiology (part-time)
Lab. technician, Molecular ecology and physiology of algae (part time)
Lab. technician, Aquatic Evolutionary Ecology (part time)
Lab. technician, Eco-evolutionary dynamics & Experimental Evolutionary Ecology
Former & recently retired researchers
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Dora Čertnerová | Experimental evolutionary ecology |
| Tatyana Darienko | Ecology and taxonomy of algae |
| Maja Ilić | Eco-evolutionary dynamics |
| Sabrina Seywald | Long-term ecological data |
| Thomas Scheuerl | Aquatic evolutionary ecology |
| Viktoriya Petlovana | Ecology and taxonomy of ciliates |
| Dunja Lukić | Plankton ecology |
| Thomas Weisse | Plankton ecology |
| Barbara Kammerlander | Ecology and taxonomy of ciliates |
| Romana Limberger | Plankton ecology |
| Jens Boenigk | Diversity and ecology of flagellates & microalgae |
| Guntram Christiansen | Functional genetics |
| Martin Dokulil | Quantitative algae ecology |
| Maria Leichtfried | Stream ecology, stream sediments, organic matter, nutrients |
| Tomi Luoto | Paleolimnology, chironomids |
| Liisa Nevalainen | Evolutionary paleolimnology |
| Simone Riss | Experimental evolutionary ecology |
| Roland Schmidt | Palaeolimnology |
| Radka Symonová | Molecular evolutionary ecology |
| Lukas Metzger | Eco-evolutionary dynamics |
| Maurine Neiman | Molecular & cytogenetic evolution of asexual aquatic organisms |
Former diploma/MSc and doctorate/PhD students
Graduates who were not largely supervised in Mondsee are not listed here
Graduates who completed their Master's theses in IPGL programmes up to 2011 (in some cases with supervision by ILIM/Mondsee scientists): until 2013 and from 2014.
| Name | MSc oder PhD/BetreuerIn | Abschlussjahr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serafine Kattus | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2025 | |
| Laura Shaw (vormals Domenig) | MSc/Sonntag | 2025 | |
| Ekaterina Scherbakova | MSc/Möst (co- supervision) | 2025 | |
| Nadia Kostner | MSc/Sonntag | 2025 | |
| Kristin Kuntz | MSc/Kurmayer | 2024 | |
| Monika Stögbuchner | MSc/Lamatsch | 2024 | |
| Elisabeth Entfellner | PhD/Kurmayer | 2024 | |
| Aylin Olgun | MSc/Lamatsch, Wanzenböck | 2023 | |
| Sabrina Seywald | MSc/Weisse | 2023 | |
| Christoph Kotzorek | MSc/Kurmayer | 2023 | |
| Roland Vogt | PhD/Wanzenböck, Lamatsch | 2022 | |
| Tobias Grossgasteiger | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2022 | |
| Rachel Vith | MSc/Kurmayer | 2022 | |
| Benard Mucholwa Simiyu | PhD/Kurmayer | 2022 | |
| Xiaoteng Lu | PhD/Weisse, Sonntag | 2021 | |
| Mario Aigner | MSc/Wanzenböck, Sonntag | 2021 | |
| Fabian Sommer | MSc/Sonntag, Tartarotti | 2021 | |
| Daniela Frantal | MSc/Sonntag | 2020 | |
| Astrid Beckmann | MSc/Weisse | 2020 | |
| Julie Blommaert | PhD/Stelzer | 2019 | |
| Christian Spanner | MSc/Pröschold, Sonntag | 2019 | |
| Anna Binder | MSc/Sonntag, Pröschold | 2019 | |
| Teofana Chonova | PhD/Kurmayer | 2019 | |
| Daniel Rieser | MSc/Pröschold, Sonntag | 2019 | |
| Elisabeth Wolf | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2019 | |
| Adam Cieplinski | PhD/Weisse | 2018 | |
| Christina Wirth | MSc/Weisse | 2018 | |
| Victoria Bergkemper | PhD/Weisse | 2018 | |
| Kathrin Baumann | MSc/Kurmayer | 2017 | |
| Laura Nachbaur | Diplom/Sonntag | 2017 | |
| Matthias Hötzinger | PhD/Hahn | 2017 | |
| Mark Olokotum | MSc/Kurmayer | 2017 | |
| Barbara Kammerlander | PhD/Sonntag | 2017 | |
| Gianluca Lazzari | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2017 | |
| Harald Ficker | PhD/Wanzenböck | 2017 | |
| Patrick Kaspar | MSc (FH)/Weisse | 2016 | |
| Sarah Gugele | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2016 | |
| Andrea Huemer | MSc/Hahn | 2016 | |
| Nadja Straubinger-Gansberger | PhD/Kurmayer | 2015 | |
| Geoffrey Ong´ondo | PhD/Sonntag, Boenigk | 2014 | |
| Daniela Pöll | MSc/Sonntag | 2014 | |
| Veronika Ostermaier | PhD/Kurmayer | 2014 | |
| Kathrin Böhm | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2014 | |
| Manuel Deinhardt | MSc/Lamatsch, Taskinen | 2013 | |
| Birgit Gröschl | MSc/Weisse | 2013 | |
| Franziska Huber | MSc/Hahn | 2013 | |
| Thomas Scheuerl | PhD/Stelzer | 2013 | |
| Mark Frei | MSc/Kurmayer | 2013 | |
| Eva Schober | PhD/Kurmayer | 2012 | |
| Florian Keil | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2012 | |
| Benard M. Simiyu | MSc/Kurmayer | 2012 | |
| Thomas M. Oberlercher | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2012 | |
| Barbara Pamminger-Lahnsteiner | PhD/Wanzenböck | 2011 | |
| Michael Moser | PhD/Weisse | 2011 | |
| Sophie Schärfl | MSc/Hahn, Berninger | 2010 | |
| Nicole Laufenstein | MSc/Weisse | 2010 | |
| Steffen Jost | PhD/Boenigk | 2010 | |
| Athanasio S. Mbonde | MSc/Kurmayer | 2010 | |
| Kerstin Huber | PhD/Schmidt | 2009 | |
| William O. Okello | PhD/Kurmayer | 2009 | |
| Patrick Schöttl | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2009 | |
| Thomas Scheuerl | MSc/Hahn | 2008 | |
| Sonja Greisberger | PhD/Teubner | 2008 | |
| Karin Pfandl | PhD/Boenigk | 2007 | |
| Veronika Ostermayer | MSc/Kurmayer | 2007 | |
| Stefan Mayr | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2007 | |
| Martha Kaddumukasa | MSc/Kurmayer | 2007 | |
| Elke Gächter | PhD/Weisse | 2006 | |
| Christina Kaiblinger | PhD/Dokulil | 2006 | |
| Monika Roth | MSc/Schmidt | 2006 | |
| Carole Molitor | MSc/Kurmayer | 2006 | |
| Yuwei Chen | PhD/Dokulil | 2005 | |
| Michael Schauer | PhD/Hahn, Weisse | 2005 | |
| Qinglong Wu | PhD/Hahn, Weisse | 2005 | |
| Simone Kosol | MSc/Kurmayer | 2005 | |
| Michael Moser | MSc/Weisse | 2005 | |
| Martin Finster | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2005 | |
| Ulrich Dickbauer | MSc/Dokulil | 2005 | |
| Robert Buttinger | MSc/Danielopol | 2005 | |
| Willi Kabas | PhD/Dokulil | 2004 | |
| Marlies Gumpenberger | MSc/Kurmayer, Weisse | 2004 | |
| William O. Okello | MSc/Kurmayer | 2004 | |
| Ines M. Lemberger | MSc/Dokulil | 2004 | |
| Markus Hetzel | MSc/Schmidt | 2004 | |
| Charles M. M´Erimba | PhD/Leichtfried | 2004 | |
| Gerhard Tischler | PhD/Wanzenböck | 2003 | |
| Christina Kaiblinger | MSc/Schmidt | 2003 | |
| Sandra Mayrhofer | MSc/Danielopol | 2003 | |
| Thomas Kutzenberger | MSc/Kurmayer, Dokulil | 2003 | |
| Hubert Gassner | PhD/Wanzenböck | 2002 | |
| Heike Morscheid | PhD/Dokulil | 2002 | |
| Gabriele Weigelhofer | PhD/Dokulil | 2002 | |
| Sylvia Hartl | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2002 | |
| Sonja Greisberger | MSc/Dokulil | 2002 | |
| Judith Ausserbrunner | MSc/Teubner | 2002 | |
| Georg Wolfram | PhD/Humpesch | 2002 | |
| Ute Bodemer | PhD/Dokulil | 2002 | |
| Christian Kamenik | PhD/Schmidt | 2001 | |
| Barbara Lahnsteiner | MSc/Wanzenböck, Nauwerck | 2001 | |
| Cornelia Krois | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2001 | |
| Sabine Lettner | MSc/Weisse | 2001 | |
| Doris Slezak | PhD/Danielopol | 2000 | |
| Gudrun Hauseder | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2000 | |
| Yasmin Hassan | MSc/Wanzenböck | 2000 | |
| Birgit Mindl | MSc/Danielopol | 2000 | |
| Herbert Weilgunyi | PhD/Humpesch | 2000 | |
| Christian Fesl | PhD/Humpesch | 1999 | |
| Peter Indinger | MSc/Schmidt | 1999 | |
| Gerhard Tischler | MSc/Wanzenböck | 1999 | |
| Arno Aschauer | MSc/Humpesch | 1999 | |
| Christian Griebler | PhD/Danielopol | 1998 | |
| Friederike Mößlacher | PhD/Danielopol | 1998 | |
| Yin Yu | PhD/Danielopol | 1998 | |
| Karin Koinig | PhD/Schmidt | 1998 | |
| Martin Priewasser | MSc/Falkner | 1998 | |
| Andreas Schinker | MSc/Falkner | 1998 | |
| David Liti | PhD/Dokulil | 1997 | |
| Christian Kamenik | MSc/Schmidt | 1997 | |
| Susanne Schrutka | MSc/Wanzenböck | 1997 | |
| Harald Weiss | MSc/Wanzenböck, Patzner | 1997 | |
| Katrin Teubner | PhD/Dokulil | 1996 | |
| Elke E. Roschitz | MSc/Dokulil | 1996 | |
| Christian Griebler | MSc/Danielopol | 1996 | |
| Sybille Wunsam | PhD/Schmidt | 1995 | |
| Manfred Windhager | MSc/Nauwerck | 1995 | |
| Yusuf Kizito | PhD/Nauwerck | 1995 | |
| Gerald Pfister | MSc/Arndt | 1995 | |
| Thomas Posch | MSc/Arndt | 1995 | |
| Adel A. Fathy | PhD/Falkner | 1994 | |
| Friederike Mößlacher | MSc/Danielopol | 1994 | |
| Christophe Merle | MSc/Danielopol | 1994 | |
| Monika Salbrechter | MSc/Arndt | 1994 | |
| Jutta Mayer | MSc/Dokulil | 1994 | |
| Martina Berger | MSc/Arndt, Psenner | 1994 | |
| Ferdinand Wagner | PhD/Falkner | 1993 | |
| Christine Plankensteiner | MSc/Nauwerck | 1992 | |
| Eva Facher | PhD/Schmidt | 1992 | |
| Margot Kaiser | PhD/Dokulil | 1991 | |
| Walter Geiger | PhD/Danielopol | 1991 | |
| Karin Fuchs | MSc/Dokulil | 1991 | |
| Manfred Pöckl | PhD/Humpesch | 1990 | |
| Matthias Handl | PhD/Danielopol, Schmidt | 1990 | |
| Harald Wagenleitner | MSc/Danielopol | 1990 | |
| Franz Uiblein | PhD/Winkler | 1988 | |
| Carmen Orellana | PhD/Winkler, Herzig | 1988 | |
| Dieter Graffius | PhD/Falkner | 1984 | |
| Sigrid Kofler | PhD/Dokulil | 1986 | |
| Carmen Orellana | MSc/Herzig | 1985 |
IPGL Staff
Since the Institute of Limnology was founded in Vienna in 1975, IPGL (International Training Programmes in Limnology) has been part of the Institute and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. As of October 2012, IPGL was fully integrated into the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
Please contact gerold.winkler@boku.ac.at for further information.