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01.09.2020

15 FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITIONS IN THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN MICROBIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

The Doctoral School in Microbiology and Environmental Sciences offers 15 fully funded PhD positions in diverse research areas ranging from molecular...

20.08.2020

Congratulations – MSc Carolina Urbina / MSc Chupei Shi

Congratulations to Carolina and Chupei, who successfully defended their MSc thesis on Thursday August 20th. Their theses on “Long-term responses of...

17.08.2020

Hannes Schmidt appointed Senior Scientist

We are very happy that Hannes will join the staff of TER as a Senior Scientist on a permanent contract. He will strengthen our expertise in isotope...

29.07.2020

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity: New Nature Geoscience ‘Perspectives’ Paper

A new concept, put forward by an interdisciplinary group of soil scientists and mathematical modellers looks at soil carbon persistence through the...

21.07.2020

Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming. New paper in Nature Geoscience published

As global temperatures continue to rise, a key uncertainty of climate projection is the microbial decomposition of vast organic carbon stocks in...

07.07.2020

New project: “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil”

Jörg Schnecker has been granted approval for a new project “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil” within the framework of the...

01.07.2020

REWIRE Fellowship awarded to Lucia Fuchslueger

Lucia Fuchslueger is starting a new PostDoc at TER on 1 August in the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) program of the University of Vienna....

28.05.2020

Hannes Schmidt welcomed as Committee Chair in the EGU Soil System Sciences Division

Hannes Schmidt, PostDoc at TER, has been officially welcomed as the Committee Chair of the “Soil Biology, Microbiology and Biodiversity” section of...

20.04.2020

New Young Investigator Researcher Group Project

TER PostDoc Lucia Fuchlueger has been awarded a Young Investigator Researcher Group project from the FWF, entitled “PlayNICE - Interplay between...

11.03.2020

PNAS Cozzarelli Prize for paper on air eating microbe

The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected our paper with Andreas Richter and Alexander Tviet...

17.01.2020

TER Science Day

TER - the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, Centre for Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, met for a one-day Science Day on Friday January...

10.12.2019

New Paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution: A systemic overreaction to years versus decades of warming in a subarctic grassland ecosystem

Temperature governs most biotic processes, yet we know little about how warming affects whole ecosystems. This paper examines the responses of 128...

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