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31.07.2025

We are hiring: Full Professor of Soil Ecosystems and Global Change

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

30.07.2025

FWF "Tausend Ideen" for Hannes Schmidt

Hannes Schmidt, Senior Scientist at TER, received funding from the Austrian Science Fund’s 1000 Ideas program (“Tausend Ideen”). Congratulations,...

10.04.2025

Congratulations, Paul Prinz, MSc!

Congratulations to Paul Prinz, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Wednesday April 9th, 2025.

His thesis on “Modelling the effect of...

03.04.2025

Congratulations, Thayer Taft, MSc!

Congratulations to Thayer Taft, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Wednesday April 2nd, 2025.

His thesis on “Microbial activity responses...

28.03.2025

Congratulations Dr Eva Simon

Congratulations to Dr. Eva Simon, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled

"The fine-scale spatial organisation of the soil microbiome" on...

19.03.2025

Congratulations, Iris Karbon, MSc!

Iris Karbon successfully defended her Master’s thesis “Off-target Effects of Biological Nitrification Inhibitors in an Agricultural Soil” on March...

01.03.2025

Jillian Petersen appointed Full Professor at CeMESS

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

25.02.2025

Congratulations Dr Julia Wiesenbauer

Congratulations to Dr. Julia Wiesenbauer, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled

"The spatiotemporal dynamics of microbial activity at a...

11.02.2025

30.11.2024

Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems

A new study published in Nature Communications demonstrates that responses of plants and soil organisms to global change factors are largely decoupled...