Uni:docs Fellows 2014

The uni:docs fellowship programme is an individual scholarship which aims at financing excellent candidates for a period of three years. In October 2014, the following uni:docs fellows start their research position at the University of Vienna.

Stefan Benke

Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics

Research Project: Ubiquitin-mediated immune regulation by TRIM E3 ligases

Supervisor: Gijs Adriaan Versteeg


Magdalena Brunner

Department of Astrophysics,

Research project: Circumstellar Envelopes of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars: Evolution and Geometry of Mass-Loss

Supervisor: Franz Kerschbaum

Jürgen Goller

Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods

Research projcet: Beauty on the fly: Facial attractiveness and memory

Supervisor: Helmut Leder


Johann Karl Kirchknopf

Department of Social and Economic History 

Research project: Die Konstruktion weiblicher und männlicher Homosexualität in österreichischen Gerichtsakten des 20. Jahrhunderts

Supervisors: Franz Eder & Ilse Reiter-Zatloukal

Andreas Kranebitter

Department of Sociology

Research project: Verlängerter Arm der SS" oder "vergessene Opfergruppe"? Ein Beitrag zu einer Soziologie der Konzentrationslager am Beispiel der "Berufsverbrecher" des KZ Mauthausen

Supervisor: Christoph Reinprecht

Krystina Kubina

Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies

Research project: Enkomiastische Dichtung der frühen Palaiologenzeit

Supervisor: Claudia Rapp

Martin Luipersbeck

Department of Statistics and Operations Research

Research project: Optimal Node-Weighted Subgraphs: Robust and Bi-objective Approaches

Supervisor: Ivana Ljubic

Jerome Olsen

Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy

Research project: Tax morale among self-employed and their customers: a comparison of attitudes and compliance regarding value added tax versus income tax

Supervisor: Erich Kirchler

Bettina Ponleitner

Department of Mathematics

Research project: Global Optimization in Robotics

Supervisor: Hermann Schichl





Desiree Schmuck

Department of Communication

Research project: The Effects of Right Wing Populist Ads on Implicit And Explicit Attitudes Toward Immigrants

Supervisor: Jörg Matthes

 

 

Vedrana Slipogor

Department of Cognitive Biology

Research project: INDIVIDUUM: Integrative Approach to the Study of Individual Differences in Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Supervisor: Thomas Bugnyar

Andrea Söllinger

Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology

Research project: 4ME - RuMEn MEthanoplasmatales as target for MEthane mitigation: eco-physiology and interactions assessed by integrated MEta-omics

Supervisor: Christa Schleper & Tim Urich

Anna Maria Wucherer

Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods

Research project: Using an experimental psychophysiological approach to understand frustration, anger and emotion regulation in psychopathy

Supervisor: Claus Lamm

Volha Biziukova

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Research project: Political subjectivity of the new middle classes in Russia in the context of changing consumption practices

Supervisor: Ayse Çaglar

Christian Ferstl

Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies

Research project: Die frühen Darstellungen des Pāśupata in der Kunstdichtung des Sanskrit und Prakrit

Supervisors: Karin Preisendanz & Dezső Csaba (Budapest)

Senad Halilbasic

Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies

Research project: Bosnisch-herzegowinisches Theater 1992-1995

Supervisors: Stefan Hulfeld & Oliver Schmitt

Sandra Kirchner

Department of Integrative Zoology

Research project: Bringing light into the evolution of an enigmatic fish. Comparative analyses of cavernicolous and surface dwelling populations of Garra barreimiae

Supervisor: Harald Krenn

Gerhard Kreuch

Department of Philosophy

Research project: „Selbstgefühl“ - Gefühlte Selbstvertrautheit in der Theorie existenzieller Gefühle und der Heidelberger Schule des Selbstbewusstseins

Supervisor: Hans Bernhard Schmid

Isabelle Laumer

Department of Cognitive Biology

Research project: Using the exchange paradigm to investigate decision-making in birds

Supervisor:Thomas Bugnyar

Clemens Moritz

Computational Physics

Research project: Pressure Induced Amorphization in Water Ice - A Computer Simulation Study

Supervisor: Christoph Dellago


Sanna Plieschnegger

Department of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions

Reserach project: Fatwa als Mordaufruf? – Eine kritische Diskursanalyse deutschsprachiger und ägyptischer Medien am Beispiel von Hamed Abdel-Samad

Supervisor: Wolfram Reiss

Robert Rothmann

Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law & Department of Sociology

Research project: Privacy, Surveillance and Informed Consent in Digital Environments: The Facebook Case Study

Supervisorrs Daniel Ennöckl & Roland Verwiebe

Melanie Sindelar

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Research project: Art production in contexts of nation-building: Visual artists in the United Arab Emirates today

Supervisor: Andre Gingrich

Daniel Smrzka

Department für Geodynamik und Sedimentologie

Research project: Establishing criteria for the identification of oil seep carbonates

Supervisor: Jörn Peckmann

Martin Walter

Department of Environmental Geoscience

Research project: 4Mechanisms and rates of asbestos weathering in the environment

Supervisor: Stephan Krämer