Members

Thomas Böttcher

Research topics: AMR and Selective Antibiotics, Virulence Inhibitors, Phages

Christopher Gerner

Research topics: metabolomics, mitochondrial stress, chronic inflammatory diseases

Samuel Meier-Menches

Research topics:
Multi-omics, drug discovery, mass spectrometry

Harald Schöny

Research topics: Metabolism, training optimisation, lipids

Veronika Somoza

Research topics: Aromatic compounds, bitter-tasting compounds, nutrition in adulthood

Valeska Huber

Research topics:
Disease and globalisation, epidemics, quarantine

Birgit Nemec

Research topics:
Global health, reproductive health, disability

Hanna Lucia Worliczek

Research topics:
History of congenital infectious diseases; History of the Austrian Mutter-Kind-Pass; Integrated history and philosophy of reproductive health

Gisela Ernst

Research topics:
Gender data gap; Pharmaceutical (pricing) regulation; Regulatory framework of the Austrian healthcare system

Nikolaus Forgó

Research topics:
Rare cancers, health data protection, AI healthcare apps

Karl Stöger

Research topics: health planning law, law of the medical professions, biotechnology law

Ina Bergheim

Research topics: diet, intestinal barrier, liver

Annette Brandt

Research topics:
Nutrition; Aging; Brain
 

Gerhard Ecker

Research topics: Ligand- and structure-based drug design, transmembrane transport proteins, toxicity prediction

David Gomez Varela

Research topics: metaproteomics, microbiome, AI-assisted data analysis

Eike Heiss

Research topics:
Cellular stress resistance, immunometabolism, bioactive natural compounds

Daniel König

Research topics: chronic diseases prevention, cognitive ageing, cardiometabolic health

Oliver Neubauer

Research topics:
Nutrition and exercise interventions; Clinicial exercise nutrition; Nutrition and exercise physiology

Julien Orts

Research topics:
BioNMR and drug discovery by advanced NMR methods

Petra Rust

Research topics: nutritional and health literacy, dietary patterns, sustainable nutrition

Manuela Schmidt

Research topics: Proteomics, chronic pain, network biology

Karl-Heinz Wagner

Research topics:
Ageing, metabolic health, lifestyle interventions

Steffen Waldherr

Research topics: Metabolic networks, modelling of cell populations, machine learning for physiological data

Wolfram Weckwerth

Research topics:
Genotype-environment-phenotype-relationships, metabolomics, green systems biology

Anna Weinzinger

Research topics:
Mechanisms of rare neurological diseases: Precision medicine and mechanism-guided drug repurposing; Integration of molecular, omics, clinical and patient-derived data

Marietta Zille

Research topics:
Cerebrovascular health and blood–brain barrier dysfunction across aging, stroke, and hypertension; Prevention at the diet–microbiome–brain interface; Neurodegeneration and non‑enzymatic protein modifications

Jörg Menche

Research topics: systems biology, data visualisation, virtual reality

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Max Perutz Labs
Ludwig Boltzmann Department of Network Medicine
u:cris

Adams Bodomo

Research topics:
one health, biodiversity, indigenous knowledge systems

Johanna Chovanec

Research topics: neurodiversity, autism, nostalgia and melancholy

Anja-Xiaoxing Cui

Research topics: music interventions, cognition, dementia

Sebastian Klinger

Research topics:
sleep, medical humanities and health humanities, history of science

Monika Pietrzak-Franger

Research topics: chronic illness, gender and sexual health, illness narratives and iconography of illness

Sandra Radinger

Research topics:
Language and communication in Existential Vulnerability; Participatory Dialogue Practices for Caring Communities; Language Education and Institutional Inclusion

Katharina Wiedlack

Research topics:
Disability Studies; Crip Theory; Neurodiversity in Literature and Culture

Sophie Juliane Veigl

Research topics:
Epistemology of expertise; Patient autonomy; Steroid hormone use

Robert Böhm

Research topics: antibiotic use, health policy acceptance, vaccinations

Anna Fekete

Research topics:
Stress, music and art interventions, pain

Julia Holzer

Research topics: well-being in school, science outreach, implementation research

Stefanie Höhl

Research topics:
Social well-being; Social learning; Co-regulation

Laura Maria König

Research topics:
diet, physical activity, health and science communication

Sonja Kunz

Research topics: food beliefs, meat reduction, cognitive biases

Urs Markus Nater

Research topics:
stress, (digital) interventions, reproductive health

Ricarda Nater-Mewes

Research topics:
Ethnic minorities and refugees, persistent somatic symptoms, psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions

Jana Nikitin

Research topics:
Psychosocial determinants of healthy ageing, including views of ageing, social relationships and loneliness; Women’s health across midlife and later life, particularly menopause; Environmental influences on healthy ageing, including nature exposure and climate change

Matthew Pelowski

Research topics: Experiences of art, well-being, art-based interventions

Ekaterina Pronizius

Research topics:
Personality disorders; Social cognition; Stress

Mizan Rambhoros

Research topics: emotive experiences, positive places, mental wellbeing

Julia Reiter

Research topics: group conflict and discrimination in health contexts, access and inclusion in health, adolescents

Christina Ristl

Research topics:
Healthy Aging, Social Participation, Views on Aging

Barbara Schober

Research topics: well-being in school, mental health literacy, intervention implementation

Giorgia Silani

Research topics: mental health literacy, neurodiversity, school interventions

Bence Szaszkó

Research topics:
stress, mindfulness, mental health

Ulrich Tran

Research topics: mindfulness, suicide, psychosocial interventions

Martina Zemp

Research topics: ADHD, minority stress, family interaction
 

Valeria Bordone

Research topics: intergenerational relationships, grandparenthood, wellbeing

Giorgio Brocco

Research topics:
Disability; Toxicity; Environmental justice

Christian Haddad

Research topics: 
politics and governance of biomedical and pharmaceutical innovation; social studies of health & medicine; political economies of global health R&D 

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Department of Sociology
Department of Science and Technology Studies
u:cris

Kerstin Hämel

Research topics: primary health care, chronic and long-term care, community participation

Kathrin Karsay

Research topics: mental health, social media and smartphone use, health influencers

Janina Kehr

Research topics: biomedicine, hospitals, planetary health

Lisa Lehner

Research topics: health justice, AMR, inequalities of care

Jörg Matthes

Research topics:
digital health and AI, media and nutrition, health communication

Sandrine Metzger

Research topics:
Parental mental health; Infant health

Matt Minich

Research topics:
Adolescent digital media use; Media psychology; Communication neuroimaging

Martin Nagl-Cupal

Research topics: 
family care and health, child and adolescent health in care contexts, care transitions

Mafe Olarte-Sierra

Research topics:
Suffering and well-being; Death and dying; Care

Katharina Theresa Paul

Research topics: health governance, vaccination policy, evidence and policy

Michaela Pfadenhauer

Research topics:
AI Companions, Social Robotics, Sociology of Professions

Elisabeth Reitinger

Research topics:
Palliative care; Dementia care; Gender and diversity

Elisabeth Scheibelhofer

Research topics: discrimination in healthcare, migrant experiences of healthcare, multilingualism in psychotherapy

Veronika Siegl

Research topics: reproduction, gender health, death/grief

Sonja Spitzer

Research topics: socio-economic health inequalities, gender health, intergenerational inequality

Cristina Suero García

Research topics: late fertility, medically assisted reproduction, family formation

Dagmar Vorlicek

Research topics: global health, biological security, dual-use research

Marion Rauner

Research topics:
Disaster and emergency management, public health (including health technology assessment), disease policy modelling

Tabea Ott

Research topics:
Vulnerability; Bias; Justice

Julia Fischer

Research topics:
Empirical bioethics; Health policy; Patient preferences

Susanne Schwab

Research topics: Well-being at school, inclusive and equitable education, learning barriers 

David Berry

Research topics:
Antimicrobial resistance; Human microbiome; Host-microbe interactions and microbial pathogenesis

Robert Csapo

Research topics:
Ageing, resistance training,
overuse syndromes

Peter Gröpel

Research topics: Performance psychology, exercise motivation, behavioural change programs

Johannes Müller

Research topics:
Sport and health in prison; Sport and mental health; Public health

Jürgen Scharhag

Research topics: Exercise as medicine, sports cardiology, exercise physiology

Barbara Wessner

Key research areas: muscule and immune systems, physical activity, the menopause and ageing