Members

Faculty of Chemistry

Thomas Böttcher

© derknopfdruecker.com

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

Research Keywords: Bioanalysis, drug discovery, mechanisms of action, translational research, mass spectrometry, omics, multi-omics, proteomics, chemoproteomics, finger sweat analysis

Harald Schöny

© Martin Schaier

Research Keywords: Metabolism, sports science, gender differences, minimally invasive sampling, blood, training optimisation, fatigue

Veronika Somoza

© derknopfdruecker.com


Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies

Valeska Huber

© Katarzyna Mazur

Research Keywords: Disease and globalisation, International organisations, Epidemics, Quarantine, Health information, Public

Research Keywords: Global health, reproduction, risk, disability, patient perspective, patient activism, medical devices, biomedicine, environment, gender


Faculty of Law

Karl Stöger

© Krpelan Uni Wien

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

© Jürgen Biniasch

Research Keywords: Diet, Sugar, Alcohol, Liver, Intestinal barrier, Ageing, Model organisms, Human studies, Immune cells, Bacterial toxins

Elke Heiß

© Priv.

Research Keywords: Cell biology, cellular stress resistance, inflammatory signalling, bioenergetics, bioactive natural products

Petra Rust

© Keinrath

Research Keywords: Nutritional assessment, eating behaviour, nutrition and health literacy, sustainable nutrition, nutrition of vulnerable groups, nutritional environment, health promotion

Research Keywords: Proteins, proteomics, metaproteomics, microbiome, machine learning, artificial intelligence, disease mouse models, chronic pain, medical devices

Research Keywords: Gingiva, Biomarkers, DNA damage, Oxidative stress, Metabolic health, Bilirubin metabolism, Human interventional and cross-sectional studies, Lifestyle intervention, Epidemiological studies

Steffen Waldherr

© KU Leuven Rob Stevens

Research Keywords: Metabolic networks, computational systems biology, modelling of cell populations, machine learning for physiological data


Faculty of Mathematics

Research Keywords: Network medicine, systems biology, data analysis, data visualisation, virtual reality, complex systems


Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies

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

© derknopfdruecker.com

Research Keywords: Neurodiversity, autism, representations of autism, first-person narratives, post-imperial melancholy, nostalgia

Anja-Xiaoxing Cui

© derknopfdruecker.com

Research Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, movement, embodiment, music intervention, memory impairment, stress, ageing

Sebastian Paul Klinger

© Marc Wieschalla

Research Keywords: Sleep, Pharmaceuticals, Literature and medicine, History of science, Medical/health humanities


Faculty of Psychology

Robert Böhm

© derknopfdruecker.com

Anna Fekete

© Christian Valuch

Research Keywords: Stress, well-being, pain, mental health

Julia Holzer

© Stefan Knittel

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

© Verena Saloukeh

Research Keywords: Health behaviour, physical activity, healthy eating, menstrual health, sleep, occupational health, social relationships

Laura Maria König

© Jürgen Rennecke

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

© Priv.

Research Keywords: Nutritional beliefs, product judgements, meat reduction, advertising, labelling, cognitive biases

Urs Markus Nater

© Foto Fally Wien

Research Keywords: Stress, fatigue, intervention, music and health, reproductive health

Ricarda Nater-Mewes

© Olga Kretsch

Research Keywords: Ethnic minorities, Flight, Ethnic discrimination, Persistent somatic symptoms, Negative psychological factors, Psychological/psychotherapeutic interventions

Research Keywords: Mental well-being, Creativity, Culture, Psychology, Space, Positive emotion, Cities, Enriching experiences

Alea Ruf

© Priv.

Research Keywords: Health behaviour, change in health behaviour, eating behaviour, physical activity, stress, resilience

Barbara Schober

© Barbara Mair

Research Keywords: Well-being in educational contexts, mental health competence in schools, self-regulation, development and implementation of intervention programmes

Giorgia Silani

© David Cserjan

 

 

Research Keywords: Mental health literacy, emotions, empathy, neurodiversity, schools, autism

Research Keywords: Stress, mental health, cognition, attention, executive functions, yoga, mindfulness, well-being, psychoneuroendocrinology

Ulrich Tran

© Priv.

Research Keywords: Mindfulness, psychosocial interventions, suicide, research on individual differences in health-related variables, validity research of health-related constructs

Martina Zemp

© Barbara Mair

Research Keywords: Children, adolescents, families, couples, relationships, parenting, ADHD, minority stress, resilience, social anxiety


Faculty of Social Sciences

Valeria Bordone

© Minitta Kandlbauer

Research Keyword: Cognition, well-being, intergenerational relationships, grandparenthood, family, ageing, employment status, environmental awareness

Cristina Suero García

© El Retrato Madrid

Research Keywords: Fertility, Late fertility, Health and fertility, Reproductive decisions, Family formation processes, Family, Social demography

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

© Julian Belz

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

Research Keywords: Mental health, well-being, use of social media, use of smartphones, detachment, self-diagnoses, health influencers

Janina Kehr

© Priv.

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

© Marisa Vranješ

Research Keywords: Health equity, Pharmaceutical studies, Welfare state policy, Social policy, Antibiotic resistance, Mental health, Inequalities in care

Jörg Matthes

© Barbara Mair

Research Keywords: Digital health, media and nutrition, health communication, AI and health

Katharina Theresa Paul

© Foto Sengmüller

Research Keywords: Health governance, vaccination policy, vaccination hesitancy, data governance and policy, evidence and policy

Research Keywords: AI companions, social robotics, sociology of professions

Research Keywords: Discrimination and racialised experiences of non-German-speaking migrants in the healthcare system, multilingual interactions of migrant patients in psychotherapy

Researcch Keywords: Assisted and selective reproduction, surrogacy, abortion dis-/ability, motherhood, death/dying, ethics/morality, feminism

Sonja Spitzer

© Studio Next

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

Research Keywords: Global health, Global health security, Biological risks, Biological weapons, Dual-use research


Centre for Sport Science and University Sports

Research Keywords: Skeletal muscle, tendons, ageing, strength, fitness, resistance training, sarcopenia, obesity, sports injuries, overuse syndromes

Research Keywords: Performance psychology, health benefits of sport and exercise, motivation for exercise behaviour, behaviour change programmes

Jürgen Scharhag

© S. Bères

Research Keywords: Sports medicine, sports cardiology, exercise physiology, preventive medicine, sport and exercise as medicine


Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

Marion Rauner

© Universität Wien

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

© Krpelan Uni Wien

Research Keywords: Social participation, school wellbeing, equity, inclusion, teaching wellbeing