Lecture series
EDGE Lecture: Membranes for Selective Ion Separations at the Water-Energy Nexus
Prof. Menachem ElimelechYale University11.01.202416:30 honlineEDGE Lecture: tba
Dr. Andrew BoothSINTEF14.12.202316:30 hMelchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2EDGE Lecture: Visualizing Data - Through the Eyes of the Reader
Dr. Laura KöstenUniversity of Vienna07.12.202316:30 hMelchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2CMESS Lecture: Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Assessing Biogeochemical Processes in Soils
Ass.-Prof. Meret AeppliÉcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)30.11.202312:00 hMelchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2EDGE Lecture: Multimodal Imaging of Manganese Biomineralization in Complex Environments
Ass.-Prof. Jasquelin PenaUC Davis23.11.202316:30 honlineCMESS Lecture: Benign by Design - From Green Chemistry to Sustainable Chemistry
Prof. Klaus KümmererLeuphana University Lüneburg19.10.202312:00 hMelchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2EDGE Lecture: The Renaissance of Arsenic: Can we Convert an Infamous Contaminant to a Critical Raw Material?
Dr. Case van GenuchtenGeological Survey of Denmark and Greenland12.10.202316:30 hMelchior Neumayr Saal, UZA 2EDGE Lecture: Natural, Incidental and Engineered Nanomaterials in Surface Waters: Occurrence and Catalytic Reactivity Influences on Micro Pollutant Degradation Plus Phosphorus Turnover Rates
Prof. Paul WesterhoffArizona State University20.06.202316:30 hEberhard Clar Saal, UZA2CMESS Lecture: Abiotic RNA Hydrolysis in the Environment: Implications for the Environmental Fate of Emerging RNA Interference Biopesticides
Ass. Prof. Kimberly ParkerWashington University of St. Louis11.05.202316:30 honlineEDGE Lecture: Agricultural Water Reuse: The Dark Side of the Moon
Prof. Benny ChefetzHebrew University of Jerusalem20.04.202316:30 hEberhard Clar Saal, UZA2EDGE Lecture: Diversity and Persistence of Toxins from Cyanobacteria - from Lakes to Alpine Rocks
Dr. Elisabeth JanssenSwiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)30.03.202316:30 hEberhard Clar Saal, UZA2EDGE Lecture: An Interfacial Geochemical Perspective on DNA Preservation in Sediments: Implications for Bacterial Evolution and Ecological Inference
Dr. Karina SandUniversity of Copenhagen23.03.202316:30 hEberhard Clar Saal, UZA2EDGE Lecture: Approaches for Tackling the Planetary Boundary for Chemical Pollution
Prof. Ian CousinsStockholm University09.03.202317:00 honlineEDGE Lecture: The untapped potential of fungi for contaminant biodegradation
Dr. Lukas WickHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research19.01.202312:00 hHS 1, UBB University Biology BuildingEDGE Lecture: Clustering Methods with Potential Applications in Geosciences
Prof. Claudia PlantUniversity of Vienna12.01.202316:45 h2B201, UZA2EDGE Lecture: “Fishing” reactive organic carbon for climate change and water reuse: Redox and complexation
Prof. Yu YangUniversity of Nevada, Reno, USA15.12.202216:45 h2B201, UZA2EDGE Lecture: Where microbes meet metals, minerals and magnetism
Dr. James M. ByrneUniversity of Bristol, UK01.12.202216:45 h2B201, UZA2EDGE Lecture: Lead in archeological human bones/teeth reflecting historical changes in lead production
Prof. Yigal ErelHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel24.11.202216:45 h2B201, UZA2EDGE Lecture: Tracking complex mixtures in the environment and wildlife with in vitro bioassays
Prof. Beate EscherHelmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Germany16.11.202216:30 hEberhard Clar Saal, UZA2EDGE Lecture: Playing with fire: microbial traits and responses governing community resilience following severe wildfire
Prof. Mike WilkinsColorado State University, USA03.11.202216:30 honlineEDGE Lecture: The Mountain Drinking Water Project: Community-Engaged Research and Action on Drinking Water Disinfection By-products in the United States
Prof. Jason UnrineUniversity of Kentucky, USA23.06.202217:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: Fate of synthetic biodegradable polymers in soils
Prof. Michael SanderETH Zürich, Switzerland09.06.202217:00 hEberhard 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. WhiteThe Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, USA02.06.202217:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: Nanoparticles for Efficient Delivery of Agrochemicals in Crop Plants: Challenges and Opportunities
Prof. Subhasis GhoshalMcGill University, CAN24.05.202216:00 hSeminar room "M. Neumayr" (2A502, UZA 2)EDGE Lecture: Reduction of hexavalent uranium by magnetite
Prof. Rizlan Bernier-LatmaniÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, FR28.04.202217:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: Context matters: agathokakological roles for redox-active “antibiotics”
Prof. Dianne K. NewmanCalifornia Institute of Technology, USA21.04.202217:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: Molecular Recognition Microscopy & Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine
Prof. Peter HinterdorferJohannes-Kepler-Universität, Austria07.04.202217:00 hEberhard Clar Saal (2B204, UZA2)EDGE Lecture: Nanoplastics in Our Environment: Small Particles with Big Challenges
Prof. Dr. Nathalie TufenkjiMcGill University, CAN20.01.202217:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: Microbial mercury methylation: investigating a decades-long (ongoing) biogeochemical mystery
Dr. John MoreauUniversity of Glasgow, UK13.01.202217:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: Sustainability science for societal transformations: Aspirations, Realities, and Opportunities
Dr. Guido CanigliaKonrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg16.12.202117:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: "On the Persistence and Mobility of Organic Contaminants in Freshwater Resources"
Prof. Hans Peter ArpNorwegian University of Science and Technology & Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), NOR02.12.202117:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: "How iron oxidation can direct the fate of organic matter and iron mineral composition in redox dynamic soils"
Prof. Aaron ThompsonDepartment of Crop & Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, USA11.11.202117:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: "Bulk X-ray absorption spectroscopy for a molecular approach in environmental chemistry. Inputs from field studies."
Prof. Guillaume MorinInstitute of Mineralogy, Physics of Materials and Cosmochemistry, Sorbonne Université, France21.10.202117:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: "Coal Ash Wastes: An Environmental Risk or Environmental Resource?"
Prof. Heileen Hsu-KimDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University, USA14.10.202117:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: Microbial metabolites for metal scavenging, defense, and signaling
Prof. Dr. Thomas BöttcherDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria24.06.202117:00 hOnlineEDGE Lecture: A Silent Killer: An under-recognized contaminant and driver of contaminant cycles
Prof. Dr. Samantha YingDepartment of Environmental Sciences, University of California-Riverside, USA10.06.202117:00 hOnlineOpening the river bioreactor blackbox: Considering chemical diversity of natural organic matter in river networks
Prof. Dr. Gabriel SingerDepartment of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Austria27.05.202117:00 hOnlineBiogeochemical Cycling of Soil Organic Matter within Wildfire and Permafrost Thaw Affected Ecosystems
Prof. Dr. Thomas BorchDepartment of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, USA20.05.202117:00 hOnlineImpacts of Rises in the Sealevel on the Biogeochemistry of Estuarine Systems
Prof. Satish C. MyneniDepartment of Geosciences, Princeton University, US22.04.202117:00 hOnlineEmerging antibiotic resistance in soil and plant systems
DR. WEI ZHANGDepartment of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA11.03.202117:00 hOnlineThe habits of microplastic
Prof. Dr. Bart KoelmansWageningen University, Netherlands28.01.202117:00 hOnlineThe role of human behaviour in plastic pollution
Prof. Dr. Sabine PahlFakultät für Psychologie, Universität Wien21.01.202117:00 hOnlineOrganic Biomolecule-Mineral Interactions in the Origins of Life
Prof. Dr. Nita SahaiDepartment of Polymer Science, University of Akron, USA17.12.202017:00 hOnlineEnvironmental Geochemistry of Dissolved Mn(III) Species: Where are we now?
Prof. Dr. Zimeng WangDepartment of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Fudan University, China03.12.202017:00 hOnlinePhotochemically produced halogen radicals: contaminant degradation, organic matter bleaching and coral death
Prof. Dr. William MitchCivil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA19.11.202017:00 hOnlineSpeleothems and Sediments as Archives for Paleogenetic Research on Human Evolution
Dr. Mareike StahlschmidtDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany12.11.202017:00 hOnlineSustaining Groundwater in the Twenty-First Century
Prof. Dr. Scott FendorfDepartment of Earth System Science, Stanford University, USA29.10.202017:00 hOnlineThe End of the Pipe: Using Aquatic Chemistry to Control Lead Concentrations in Tap Water
Prof. Dr. Daniel GiammarEnergy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University, USA08.10.202017:00 hOnline (recording available at https://bit.ly/3jDmTpT)Exposomics: A New Paradigm for Investigating Fate, Toxicity and Exposure of Environmental Contaminants
Dr. Benedikt WarthDepartment of Food Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Vienna, Austria09.03.202016:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaESR as a tool to investigate environmentally persistent and short-lived radicals
Prof. Dr Marc PignitterDepartment of Physiological Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria27.01.202016:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaThe environment as training ground: evolution and biology of intracellular microbes
Prof. Dr Matthias HornDepartment of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria20.01.202016:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaTraces in the absolute dark: Cave sediments and their unique record of long-term terrestrial environmental change
Prof. Dr Christoph SpötlQuaternary Research Group, University of Innsbruck, Austria16.12.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaClimate Change Impacts on Rice: Soil Microbiome Controlling Grain Quantity and Quality
Dr Marie MüheDepartment of Geomicrobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany02.12.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaCarbon cycling in groundwater ecosystems – what do we know and where are the knowledge gaps?
Prof. Dr Christian GrieblerDepartment of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Austria18.11.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaGlobal wildfires - trends, impacts and their role in the carbon cycle
Dr Cristina Santin, Prof. Dr Stefan DoerrDepartment of Geography, Swansea University, UK11.11.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaComputational modeling and learning methods for metagenomics of microbial and viral communities
Prof. Dr Thomas RatteiDepartment of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria21.10.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaSome like it hot; the (geo)microbiology of the nuclear fuel cycle
Prof. Dr. Jonathan R. LloydProfessor of Geomicrobiology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK24.06.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaNew insights into the global biogeochemical cycle of selenium
Prof. Dr. Lenny WinkelProfessor of Inorganic Environmental Geochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland17.06.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaNanomaterials : Not the next asbestos or What 20 years of nanomaterial implication research has taught us
Prof. Dr. Mark WiesnerProfessor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, USA03.06.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaEnvironmental redox-processes on the microscale - redox-active biofilms analyzed by modern X-ray microscopy
Prof. Dr. Martin ObstBayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Germany20.05.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaMicrobes, Soils and Climate Change
Prof. Dr. Andreas RichterDepartment of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of Vienna, Austria13.05.201916:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstrasse 14 UZA II, 1090 ViennaNew insights into N-cycle microbiology: Combining omics, chemical imaging, and physiology
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael WagnerDean of the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria04.03.201917:30 hEberhard Clar-Saal (2B 204), Althanstraße 14 UZAII, 1090 ViennaPhosphate mobility in soils as affected by colloidal transport and redox reactions
Prof. Dr. Erik SmoldersDivision of Soil and Water Management, KU Leuven, Belgium07.01.201916:30 hAlthanstraße 14 UZAII, 1090 Vienna