Congratulations to Yujia Luo, who received a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project “Tracing microbial carbon allocation to growth and survival strategies in soil”.

The 2026 Agricultural Chemistry Winter School (ACWS 2026) will focus on the interconnected challenges of climate change, anthropogenic activities, and the need to sustain a growing global population t...

CeMESS is proud to announce that eight of its researchers across all its four divisions have been named on the 2025 Clarivate list of the world's most highly cited researchers. This prestigious recogn...

Die meisten "Highly Cited Researchers", die in Österreich tätig sind, forschen an der Universität Wien. Unter den 54 Wissenschafterinnen und Wissenschaftern sind nur drei Frauen

Why do field research in Canada? What drives researchers like us to dig in forests and peat bogs in all kinds of weather, armed with bear spray and mosquito repellent? Why do we put up with dirty fing...

Why do field research in Canada? What drives researchers like us to dig in forests and peat bogs in all kinds of weather, armed with bear spray and mosquito repellent? Why do we put up with dirty fing...

Soil ecosystems form the foundation of planetary health and play a critical role in climate feedback mechanisms. However, they are also vulnerable to the impacts of global change.

Schematic representation of the main effects of soil warming on nitrogen (N) retention in ecosystem pools. During the snowmelt period (lower panel), warming reduces soil microbial biomass and fine ro...

Im Mai folgt die erste Ausschreibung von insgesamt 20 Fellowships

First call for 20 fellowships in May

We are delighted to announce that Jillian Petersen has been appointed Full Professor (§ 99/4) at the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS). This appointment marks an excit...

We are thrilled to announce that Ksenia Guseva has joined our team as a senior scientist.

Grasländer in den österreichischen Alpen zeigten sich besonders anfällig für Hitze

Nature Communications - How climate change will impact microbial community growth is unclear. Here, the authors use a field experiment with varying global change factors, finding fungal growth more...