Metamenu

Lecture series

  • EDGE Lecture: Membranes for Selective Ion Separations at the Water-Energy Nexus

    Prof. Menachem Elimelech
    Yale University
    11.01.2024
    16:30 h
    online

  • EDGE Lecture: tba

    Dr. Andrew Booth
    SINTEF
    14.12.2023
    16:30 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Visualizing Data - Through the Eyes of the Reader

    Dr. Laura Kösten
    University of Vienna
    07.12.2023
    16:30 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • CMESS Lecture: Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Assessing Biogeochemical Processes in Soils

    Ass.-Prof. Meret Aeppli
    École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    30.11.2023
    12:00 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Multimodal Imaging of Manganese Biomineralization in Complex Environments

    Ass.-Prof. Jasquelin Pena
    UC Davis
    23.11.2023
    16:30 h
    online

  • CMESS Lecture: Benign by Design - From Green Chemistry to Sustainable Chemistry

    Prof. Klaus Kümmerer
    Leuphana University Lüneburg
    19.10.2023
    12:00 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • EDGE Lecture: The Renaissance of Arsenic: Can we Convert an Infamous Contaminant to a Critical Raw Material?

    Dr. Case van Genuchten
    Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
    12.10.2023
    16:30 h
    Melchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2

  • EDGE Lecture: Natural, Incidental and Engineered Nanomaterials in Surface Waters: Occurrence and Catalytic Reactivity Influences on Micro Pollutant Degradation Plus Phosphorus Turnover Rates

    Prof. Paul Westerhoff
    Arizona State University
    20.06.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • CMESS Lecture: Abiotic RNA Hydrolysis in the Environment: Implications for the Environmental Fate of Emerging RNA Interference Biopesticides

    Ass. Prof. Kimberly Parker
    Washington University of St. Louis
    11.05.2023
    16:30 h
    online

  • EDGE Lecture: Agricultural Water Reuse: The Dark Side of the Moon

    Prof. Benny Chefetz
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    20.04.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: Diversity and Persistence of Toxins from Cyanobacteria - from Lakes to Alpine Rocks

    Dr. Elisabeth Janssen
    Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
    30.03.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: An Interfacial Geochemical Perspective on DNA Preservation in Sediments: Implications for Bacterial Evolution and Ecological Inference

    Dr. Karina Sand
    University of Copenhagen
    23.03.2023
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: Approaches for Tackling the Planetary Boundary for Chemical Pollution

    Prof. Ian Cousins
    Stockholm University
    09.03.2023
    17:00 h
    online

  • EDGE Lecture: The untapped potential of fungi for contaminant biodegradation

    Dr. Lukas Wick
    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
    19.01.2023
    12:00 h
    HS 1, UBB University Biology Building

  • EDGE Lecture: Clustering Methods with Potential Applications in Geosciences

    Prof. Claudia Plant
    University of Vienna
    12.01.2023
    16:45 h
    2B201, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: “Fishing” reactive organic carbon for climate change and water reuse: Redox and complexation

    Prof. Yu Yang
    University of Nevada, Reno, USA
    15.12.2022
    16:45 h
    2B201, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: Where microbes meet metals, minerals and magnetism

    Dr. James M. Byrne
    University of Bristol, UK
    01.12.2022
    16:45 h
    2B201, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: Lead in archeological human bones/teeth reflecting historical changes in lead production

    Prof. Yigal Erel
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    24.11.2022
    16:45 h
    2B201, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: Tracking complex mixtures in the environment and wildlife with in vitro bioassays

    Prof. Beate Escher
    Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Germany
    16.11.2022
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal, UZA2

  • EDGE Lecture: Playing with fire: microbial traits and responses governing community resilience following severe wildfire

    Prof. Mike Wilkins
    Colorado State University, USA
    03.11.2022
    16:30 h
    online

  • EDGE Lecture: The Mountain Drinking Water Project: Community-Engaged Research and Action on Drinking Water Disinfection By-products in the United States

    Prof. Jason Unrine
    University of Kentucky, USA
    23.06.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Fate of synthetic biodegradable polymers in soils

    Prof. Michael Sander
    ETH Zürich, Switzerland
    09.06.2022
    17:00 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal Geologie (2B204, UZA II)

  • EDGE Lecture: Tuning agrochemical chemistry at the nanoscale to enhance stress tolerance, crop nutrition and yield

    Dr. Jason C. White
    The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, USA
    02.06.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Nanoparticles for Efficient Delivery of Agrochemicals in Crop Plants: Challenges and Opportunities

    Prof. Subhasis Ghoshal
    McGill University, CAN
    24.05.2022
    16:00 h
    Seminar room "M. Neumayr" (2A502, UZA 2)

  • EDGE Lecture: Reduction of hexavalent uranium by magnetite

    Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani
    École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, FR
    28.04.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Context matters: agathokakological roles for redox-active “antibiotics”

    Prof. Dianne K. Newman
    California Institute of Technology, USA
    21.04.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Molecular Recognition Microscopy & Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine

    Prof. Peter Hinterdorfer
    Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Austria
    07.04.2022
    17:00 h
    Eberhard Clar Saal (2B204, UZA2)

  • EDGE Lecture: Nanoplastics in Our Environment: Small Particles with Big Challenges

    Prof. Dr. Nathalie Tufenkji
    McGill University, CAN
    20.01.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Microbial mercury methylation: investigating a decades-long (ongoing) biogeochemical mystery

    Dr. John Moreau
    University of Glasgow, UK
    13.01.2022
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Sustainability science for societal transformations: Aspirations, Realities, and Opportunities

    Dr. Guido Caniglia
    Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg
    16.12.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "On the Persistence and Mobility of Organic Contaminants in Freshwater Resources"

    Prof. Hans Peter Arp
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology & Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), NOR
    02.12.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "How iron oxidation can direct the fate of organic matter and iron mineral composition in redox dynamic soils"

    Prof. Aaron Thompson
    Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, USA
    11.11.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "Bulk X-ray absorption spectroscopy for a molecular approach in environmental chemistry. Inputs from field studies."

    Prof. Guillaume Morin
    Institute of Mineralogy, Physics of Materials and Cosmochemistry, Sorbonne Université, France
    21.10.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: "Coal Ash Wastes: An Environmental Risk or Environmental Resource?"

    Prof. Heileen Hsu-Kim
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University, USA
    14.10.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: Microbial metabolites for metal scavenging, defense, and signaling

    Prof. Dr. Thomas Böttcher
    Department of Biological Chemistry, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    24.06.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • EDGE Lecture: A Silent Killer: An under-recognized contaminant and driver of contaminant cycles

    Prof. Dr. Samantha Ying
    Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California-Riverside, USA
    10.06.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Opening the river bioreactor blackbox: Considering chemical diversity of natural organic matter in river networks

    Prof. Dr. Gabriel Singer
    Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    27.05.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Biogeochemical Cycling of Soil Organic Matter within Wildfire and Permafrost Thaw Affected Ecosystems

    Prof. Dr. Thomas Borch
    Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, USA
    20.05.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Impacts of Rises in the Sealevel on the Biogeochemistry of Estuarine Systems

    Prof. Satish C. Myneni
    Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, US
    22.04.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Emerging antibiotic resistance in soil and plant systems

    DR. WEI ZHANG
    Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA
    11.03.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • The habits of microplastic

    Prof. Dr. Bart Koelmans
    Wageningen University, Netherlands
    28.01.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • The role of human behaviour in plastic pollution

    Prof. Dr. Sabine Pahl
    Fakultät für Psychologie, Universität Wien
    21.01.2021
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Organic Biomolecule-Mineral Interactions in the Origins of Life

    Prof. Dr. Nita Sahai
    Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, USA
    17.12.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Environmental Geochemistry of Dissolved Mn(III) Species: Where are we now?

    Prof. Dr. Zimeng Wang
    Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Fudan University, China
    03.12.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Photochemically produced halogen radicals: contaminant degradation, organic matter bleaching and coral death

    Prof. Dr. William Mitch
    Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA
    19.11.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Speleothems and Sediments as Archives for Paleogenetic Research on Human Evolution

    Dr. Mareike Stahlschmidt
    Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
    12.11.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • Sustaining Groundwater in the Twenty-First Century

    Prof. Dr. Scott Fendorf
    Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, USA
    29.10.2020
    17:00 h
    Online

  • The End of the Pipe: Using Aquatic Chemistry to Control Lead Concentrations in Tap Water

    Prof. Dr. Daniel Giammar
    Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, USA
    08.10.2020
    17:00 h
    Online (recording available at https://bit.ly/3jDmTpT)

  • Exposomics: A New Paradigm for Investigating Fate, Toxicity and Exposure of Environmental Contaminants

    Dr. Benedikt Warth
    Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Vienna, Austria
    09.03.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • ESR as a tool to investigate environmentally persistent and short-lived radicals

    Prof. Dr Marc Pignitter
    Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
    27.01.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • The environment as training ground: evolution and biology of intracellular microbes

    Prof. Dr Matthias Horn
    Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    20.01.2020
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Traces in the absolute dark: Cave sediments and their unique record of long-term terrestrial environmental change

    Prof. Dr Christoph Spötl
    Quaternary Research Group, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    16.12.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Climate Change Impacts on Rice: Soil Microbiome Controlling Grain Quantity and Quality

    Dr Marie Mühe
    Department of Geomicrobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
    02.12.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Carbon cycling in groundwater ecosystems – what do we know and where are the knowledge gaps?

    Prof. Dr Christian Griebler
    Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Austria
    18.11.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Global wildfires - trends, impacts and their role in the carbon cycle

    Dr Cristina Santin, Prof. Dr Stefan Doerr
    Department of Geography, Swansea University, UK
    11.11.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Computational modeling and learning methods for metagenomics of microbial and viral communities

    Prof. Dr Thomas Rattei
    Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    21.10.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Some like it hot; the (geo)microbiology of the nuclear fuel cycle

    Prof. Dr. Jonathan R. Lloyd
    Professor of Geomicrobiology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK
    24.06.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • New insights into the global biogeochemical cycle of selenium

    Prof. Dr. Lenny Winkel
    Professor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    17.06.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Nanomaterials : Not the next asbestos or What 20 years of nanomaterial implication research has taught us

    Prof. Dr. Mark Wiesner
    Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, USA
    03.06.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Environmental redox-processes on the microscale - redox-active biofilms analyzed by modern X-ray microscopy

    Prof. Dr. Martin Obst
    BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Germany
    20.05.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • Microbes, Soils and Climate Change

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter
    Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria
    13.05.2019
    16:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 Vienna

  • New insights into N-cycle microbiology: Combining omics, chemical imaging, and physiology

    Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Wagner
    Dean of the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria
    04.03.2019
    17:30 h
    Eberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstraße 14 UZAII, 1090 Vienna

  • Phosphate mobility in soils as affected by colloidal transport and redox reactions

    Prof. Dr. Erik Smolders
    Division of Soil and Water Management, KU Leuven, Belgium
    07.01.2019
    16:30 h
    Althanstraße 14 UZAII, 1090 Vienna