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VDS MES graduate Patrick Arthofer

Patrick Arthofer successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Interactions of giant viruses with their hosts and symbiotic bacteria" on October 13, 2023. The board of examiners included Chantal Abergel (CNRS, University of Marseille, France), Frank Aylward (Virginia Tech, USA) and Silvia Bulgheresi ...

VDS MES graduate Marlies Dietrich

Marlies Dietrich successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "The impact of environmental factors and small-scale interactions on the structure and activity of root-associated microbial communities" on September 29, 2023. The board of examiners included Dan Buckley (Cornell University), Gabriele Berg (TU Graz) and ...

VDS MES graduate Lukas Lüftinger

Lukas Lüftinger successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Antibiotic Resistance Prediction from Sequencing Data by Machine Learning" on August 3, 2023. The board of ...

VDS MES graduate Yě Tián

Yě Tián successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Long-term soil warming effects on soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling and soil organic matter dynamics" on June 26, 2023. The board of examiners included Johannes Rousk (Lund University), Jordi Sardans (CREAF, ...

VDS MES graduate Florian Reithofer

Florian Reithofer - pictured with his family - successfully defended his thesis entitled "The potential of CRISPR/Cas systems in treatment of Adenovirus infection" on June 22, 2023. The board of examiners included Irene Görzer (Medical University Innsbruck, Austria), Jürgen Neesen (Medical University Vienna, ...

VDS MES at the Life Science Career Fair 2023

The ÖGMBT's second Life Science Career Fair on May 16 attracted over 500 participants from Austria and abroad. We are happy to look back at a very successful event. 

We want to thank the attendees of the Life Science Career Fair ...

5 PhD positions in the VDS MES Spring 2023 call

The Doctoral School in Microbiology and Environmental Science offers 5 PhD positions in our Spring 2023 recruitment ...

VDS MES graduate Lorenz Schwab

Lorenz Schwab successfully defended his thesis entitled "Geochemical behavior of mercury in contaminated environments – Application of mercury stable isotopes for source and process tracing" on March 23, 2023. The board of examiners included Stephan Krämer (University of Vienna, Austria), ...

VDS MES graduate Patrizia Pfohl

Patrizia Pfohl successfully defended her thesis entitled "Aging of intentionally produced microplastic particles for innovative applications" on January 31, 2023. The board of examiners included LeaAnn Dailey, Thilo Hofmann and Michael Zumstein (all from the University of Vienna, Austria). Congratulations, Patrizia!

VDS MES graduate Philipp Höhn

Philipp Höhn successfully defended his thesis entitled "The potential of hydrogeophysics and deep reinforcement learning for better groundwater management" on December 21, 2022. The board of examiners included Stephan Krämer, Thilo Hofmann and Michael Zumstein (all from the University of ...

VDS MES graduate Kyle Chardi

Kyle Chardi successfully defended this thesis entitled "Effect of organic ligands on the stability of tetravalent uranium under anoxic conditions" on December 16, 2022. The board of examiners included Stephan Krämer (University of Vienna), Naresh Kumar and Walter Schenkeveld (both ...

VDS MES graduate Annelieke Overbeeke

Annelieke Overbeeke successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Bacterial degradation of polysaccharides in the gut mucosal ecosystem ” on December 6, 2022. The board of examiners included Michiel Kleerebezem (Wageningen University, The Netherlands), Timon Adolph (Medical University Innsbruck, Austria) and Alexander Loy ...