Members
Faculty of Chemistry
Thomas Böttcher
Research Keywords: Pathogenic bacteria, selective antibiotics, virulence inhibitors, bacteriophages (phages), chemistry of microbial interactions, quorum sensing (quorum-dependent communication), microbe-host interactions, microbial metabolites, biosynthetic pathways
Samuel Matthias Meier-Menches
Research Keywords: Bioanalysis, drug discovery, mechanisms of action, translational research, mass spectrometry, omics, multi-omics, proteomics, chemoproteomics, finger sweat analysis
Harald Schöny
Research Keywords: Metabolism, sports science, gender differences, minimally invasive sampling, blood, training optimisation, fatigue
Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
Valeska Huber
Research Keywords: Disease and globalisation, International organisations, Epidemics, Quarantine, Health information, Public
Birgit Nemec
Research Keywords: Global health, reproduction, risk, disability, patient perspective, patient activism, medical devices, biomedicine, environment, gender
Faculty of Law
Karl Stöger
Research Keywords: Medical law, law of the medical professions, health planning law, legal issues of the standard of care, hospital law, biotechnology law, infectious diseases law, relationship between medical law and medical ethics
Faculty of Life Sciences
Ina Bergheim
Research Keywords: Diet, Sugar, Alcohol, Liver, Intestinal barrier, Ageing, Model organisms, Human studies, Immune cells, Bacterial toxins
Petra Rust
Research Keywords: Nutritional assessment, eating behaviour, nutrition and health literacy, sustainable nutrition, nutrition of vulnerable groups, nutritional environment, health promotion
David Gomez Varela
Research Keywords: Proteins, proteomics, metaproteomics, microbiome, machine learning, artificial intelligence, disease mouse models, chronic pain, medical devices
Karl-Heinz Wagner
Research Keywords: Gingiva, Biomarkers, DNA damage, Oxidative stress, Metabolic health, Bilirubin metabolism, Human interventional and cross-sectional studies, Lifestyle intervention, Epidemiological studies
Steffen Waldherr
Research Keywords: Metabolic networks, computational systems biology, modelling of cell populations, machine learning for physiological data
Faculty of Mathematics
Jörg Menche
Research Keywords: Network medicine, systems biology, data analysis, data visualisation, virtual reality, complex systems
Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies
Adams Bodomo
Research Keywords: Humanities in the One Health Network: Linguistic and Cultural Concepts for the Promotion of Biodiversity in Africa, Linguistics, Languages, Biodiversity, Africa, Ghana, Health Humanities, Cultural Concepts, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Flora and Fauna
Johanna Chovanec
Research Keywords: Neurodiversity, autism, representations of autism, first-person narratives, post-imperial melancholy, nostalgia
Anja-Xiaoxing Cui
Research Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, movement, embodiment, music intervention, memory impairment, stress, ageing
Sebastian Paul Klinger
Research Keywords: Sleep, Pharmaceuticals, Literature and medicine, History of science, Medical/health humanities
Faculty of Psychology
Anna Fekete
Research Keywords: Stress, well-being, pain, mental health
Julia Holzer
Research Keywords: Well-being, Motivation, Basic psychological needs, Socio-economic disadvantage, Science education, Science literacy, Science outreach, Implementation research, Programme evaluation
Theresa Julia Sophie Koch
Research Keywords: Health behaviour, physical activity, healthy eating, menstrual health, sleep, occupational health, social relationships
Laura Maria König
Research Keywords: Health promotion, nutrition, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, health communication, science communication, psychological determinants, physical environment, impact of research participation, digital health divide
Sonja Kunz
Research Keywords: Nutritional beliefs, product judgements, meat reduction, advertising, labelling, cognitive biases
Urs Markus Nater
Research Keywords: Stress, fatigue, intervention, music and health, reproductive health
Ricarda Nater-Mewes
Research Keywords: Ethnic minorities, Flight, Ethnic discrimination, Persistent somatic symptoms, Negative psychological factors, Psychological/psychotherapeutic interventions
Mizan Rambhoros
Research Keywords: Mental well-being, Creativity, Culture, Psychology, Space, Positive emotion, Cities, Enriching experiences
Barbara Schober
Research Keywords: Well-being in educational contexts, mental health competence in schools, self-regulation, development and implementation of intervention programmes
Giorgia Silani
Research Keywords: Mental health literacy, emotions, empathy, neurodiversity, schools, autism
Bence Szaszkó
Research Keywords: Stress, mental health, cognition, attention, executive functions, yoga, mindfulness, well-being, psychoneuroendocrinology
Ulrich Tran
Research Keywords: Mindfulness, psychosocial interventions, suicide, research on individual differences in health-related variables, validity research of health-related constructs
Martina Zemp
Research Keywords: Children, adolescents, families, couples, relationships, parenting, ADHD, minority stress, resilience, social anxiety
Faculty of Social Sciences
Valeria Bordone
Research Keyword: Cognition, well-being, intergenerational relationships, grandparenthood, family, ageing, employment status, environmental awareness
Cristina Suero García
Research Keywords: Fertility, Late fertility, Health and fertility, Reproductive decisions, Family formation processes, Family, Social demography
Christian Haddad
Research Keywords: Global Health Policy & Governance, Political Economies of Health Research & Development, Knowledge and Ignorance in (Health and Environmental) Policy Making, Social Sciences of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Policy of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Innovation, Social Sciences of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Mental Health
Kerstin Hämel
Research Keywords: Primary healthcare, Long-term care, Chronic care, Care for older people, Patient involvement, Community involvement, Interprofessional collaboration, Roles of carers, Migration of carers
Kathrin Karsay
Research Keywords: Mental health, well-being, use of social media, use of smartphones, detachment, self-diagnoses, health influencers
Janina Kehr
Research Keywords: Political anthropology of health and illness, Global infectious diseases, biopolitics and planetary health, Hospital spaces and places, Healthcare and the economy, Biomedicalization, pharmaceutical consumption and the environment
Lisa Lehner
Research Keywords: Health equity, Pharmaceutical studies, Welfare state policy, Social policy, Antibiotic resistance, Mental health, Inequalities in care
Jörg Matthes
Research Keywords: Digital health, media and nutrition, health communication, AI and health
Katharina Theresa Paul
Research Keywords: Health governance, vaccination policy, vaccination hesitancy, data governance and policy, evidence and policy
Michaela Pfadenhauer
Research Keywords: AI companions, social robotics, sociology of professions
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Research Keywords: Discrimination and racialised experiences of non-German-speaking migrants in the healthcare system, multilingual interactions of migrant patients in psychotherapy
Veronika Siegl
Researcch Keywords: Assisted and selective reproduction, surrogacy, abortion dis-/ability, motherhood, death/dying, ethics/morality, feminism
Sonja Spitzer
Research Keywords: Health and socio-economic inequalities in the life course, gender inequality, human capital, (health) data reliability, health behaviour, measures of mortality, health and ageing, healthy ageing, parental leave, causal inference in demography, intergenerational inequality
Dagmar Vorlicek
Research Keywords: Global health, Global health security, Biological risks, Biological weapons, Dual-use research
Centre for Sport Science and University Sports
Robert Csapo
Research Keywords: Skeletal muscle, tendons, ageing, strength, fitness, resistance training, sarcopenia, obesity, sports injuries, overuse syndromes
Peter Gröpel
Research Keywords: Performance psychology, health benefits of sport and exercise, motivation for exercise behaviour, behaviour change programmes
Jürgen Scharhag
Research Keywords: Sports medicine, sports cardiology, exercise physiology, preventive medicine, sport and exercise as medicine
Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics
Marion Rauner
Research Keywords: Disaster management / crisis management, Strategic management, Public business administration, Strategic hospital management, Operations research in healthcare, Regionally optimised and integrated healthcare services, Decision support for disease control, International healthcare systems, Strategic innovation and technology management
Centre for Teacher Education
Susanne Schwab
Research Keywords: Social participation, school wellbeing, equity, inclusion, teaching wellbeing