University of Vienna

The diagnosis and treatment of long COVID syndrome (LCS) is still very difficult, and there is only little knowledge about the factors causing accompanying symptoms. Researchers at the Joint Metabolome Facility of the University of Vienna…

The QLUSTER consortium comprises research groups from academia and industry spanning 7 countries of the EU and it is constituted as a collaborative network for promoting and advancing research in fundamentals and applications, for…

How did the complex organisms on Earth arise? This is one of the big open questions in biology. A collaboration between the working groups of Christa Schleper at the University of Vienna and Martin Pilhofer at ETH Zurich has come a step…

The El Niño phenomenon influences the weather in distant regions, as far away as the USA, India or the Mediterranean region. But how exactly these so-called teleconnections actually work has not yet been clarified completely. Atmospheric…

Why are there more plant species in some places than in others? Why is diversity highest in the tropics? What is the connection between biodiversity and environmental conditions? To help answer these questions, an international team led…

Sensors based on MEMS technology (micro-electro-mechanical systems) are now indispensable for developments in traffic, telecommunications and consumer electronics. A European research consortium involving the Faculty of Chemistry at the…

Glycolipids, basically "fatty sweet" molecules, are a relatively unknown group of lipids. A new method developed by an Austrian team led by chemist Evelyn Rampler of the University of Vienna has now provided deeper insights into the…

The national universities association Universities Austria (uniko) is shocked by the continuing violence against students, professors and the civil society used by the Iranian regime in a brutal attempt to nip any kind of protest in the…

The movement of species around the globe has lasting impacts on biodiversity and human livelihoods far into the futureAlien floras in regions that were once occupied by the same European power are, on average, more similar to each other…

Europe and Asia were inhabited by primates long before our species migrated from Africa. The discovery of a 2.3-million-year-old fossilized monkey skull in Greece by a team of researchers from the Universities of Vienna (Austria),…