PhD Opportunities in Public Health in Austria

The University of Vienna is seeking a predoctoral researcher in geoecology to investigate the ecological functioning of wetlands. The doctoral project focuses on greenhouse gas exchange in the reed belt of Lake Neusiedl and the Pürgschachen Moor . The research will make use of the geoecology group’s existing eddy covariance infrastructure , including towers equipped with sensors for carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane. The successful researcher will contribute to field-based environmental r...

PhD project in agricultural polymer degradation and microplastics Environmental Geosciences (EDGE) at the University of Vienna is seeking a PhD researcher to investigate how agricultural polymers fragment into microplastics and nanoplastics in soil. The project addresses an important challenge in developing environmentally safe agricultural materials: although biodegradable polymers are designed to break down fully in the field, their degradation may pass through a temporary stage in which micro...

Montanuniversität Leoben’s Department of Geoenergy is seeking a University Assistant to join the Chair of Reservoir Engineering in Leoben, Austria, with the opportunity to pursue a PhD. The research focuses on geological carbon dioxide and hydrogen storage, investigating reactive fluid transport through porous media. The project combines experimental and numerical approaches to understand transport processes relevant to subsurface energy storage and reservoir engineering. Potential research acti...

The University of Vienna is offering a PhD position in Arctic energy budget diagnostics within the Climate Diagnostics research group at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics. The group is led by Prof. Leopold Haimberger and Dr. Michael Mayer and works on coupled atmosphere–ocean–cryosphere energy-budget diagnostics and the quality and homogeneity of datasets used in climate reanalyses. The doctoral project will investigate detailed energy and moisture budgets to trace the sources of majo...

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology’s Center for Health & Bioresources in Tulln, near Vienna, is offering a PhD thesis position on prediction and functional validation of microbiome modulators for improved soil-plant resilience . The project investigates how microbial strains and defined microbial communities can shift soil and plant microbiomes toward beneficial traits, including improved plant stress tolerance, nutrient availability and soil health. The doctoral researcher will develop a real...

The University of Vienna is offering a fully funded PhD position in analyzing polymer degradation by soil enzymes within the MSCA Doctoral Network AGRIPOLYS. The doctoral researcher will join the EDGE group at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) in Vienna, Austria. The project applies environmental analytical chemistry and high-resolution mass spectrometry to investigate enzymatic degradation pathways of promising polymer classes in agricultural soils. The rese...

The University of Vienna is offering a predoctoral Scientific Project Assistant position in the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy. The successful candidate will join Meike Levin-Keitel’s team and the FWF-funded ADJUST project, “Adaptation for Just and Sustainable Transitions,” within the #connecting minds program. The doctoral research will examine climate adaptation and just transitions from a spatial planning perspective, at the interface of geography and other geo-sciences. T...

Predoctoral PhD opportunity at the University of Vienna in marine microbial biogeochemistry , microbiology , and oceanography . The working group of Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry at the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology is recruiting a scientific project assistant (predoctoral) to join the research team around Dr. Thomas Reinthaler in the FWF-funded project “Variability of Ecologically Relevant Bacterioneuston (VERA)” . The project is carried out with the University of Oldenbu...

WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business) is advertising a PhD position in the Institute for Data, Energy, and Sustainability (IDEaS), supported by the BMIMI Endowed Professorship for Data-Driven Knowledge Generation: Climate Action. The project sits at the intersection of energy technologies , energy infrastructure , data science , and computational methods . The research focus is on why energy technologies and infrastructure succeed or stall, and how technology, firms, investors,...