Research at the University of Vienna

RNA-model. Photo: University of Vienna
Library. Photo: University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is the largest Austrian research institution. Approximately 6,500 scientists and academics guarantee its outstanding performance in research and teaching. The 15 Faculties and three Centres are dedicated to both basic and applied research.

In its further development, the University of Vienna aims to promote its strengths in research on the basis of the diversity of subjects it offers, and to encourage new fields of research. According to these objectives, new main areas of research have been defined, and research platforms established. >> Read more …


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Research and Training in Soft Matter Physics. International team of scientists launches new European Network
Since January, some of the most outstanding European laboratories involved in colloidal research have joined their efforts in a Marie-Curie Initial Training Network funded by the European Commission.
2010-02-04
Squeaking and hearing in catfish
Auditory sensitivity and sound production change as the squeaker catfish grow, indicating that these fish can communicate since an early stage of development. Walter Lechner published about the catfish in BMC Biology.
2010-01-29
Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten
Johanna Laakso, professor for Finno-Ugrian Studies at the University of Vienna documents minority languages in the framework of an FWF project and the EU project ELDIA.
2010-01-26
Exile research: "Fluid Exile" in Canada
In his dissertation "Fluid Exile. Jewish Exile Writers in Canada 1940-2006" Eugen Banauch from the Department of English and American Studies shows - with the treatment of the life and work of four Jewish authors.
2010-01-14
A muscle-specific transgenic reporter line of the sea anemone
Ulrich Technau published in PNAS his researches about the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, which has become an attractive new model organism for comparative genomics and evolutionary developmental biology.
2009-12-15

 

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> Main Areas of university research (in German)

> Research platforms (in German)

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> Ombudsperson for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice (in German)

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