On 20 December this year, the Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker would have celebrated her 100th birthday. Over the past few years, Eleonore De Felip, a Mayröcker expert from the University of Innsbruck, has been exploring the multi-layered “lyrical intensity” of the poet who possessed the well-nigh unparalleled ability to transform sensory impressions and emotions into language.
With the help of AI, psychologist J. Lukas Thürmer is investigating how people behave in groups and when working in teams. His focus is on the question of how teams react to individuals who deviate from the norm.
Turtle's carapaces reveal a great deal about the animals' living conditions. Each ring documents one year’s worth of climate conditions. Archeologist Katharina Streit wants to be the first to study this climate archive.
What changes are due to evolutions and which are caused by climate change? Are there tipping points? These are the issues biologist and START Award winner Markus Möst explores by studying water fleas.
After various spells abroad, the molecular biologist Eleni Tomazou is now working at the St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute in Vienna, where she is conducting successful research to develop cancer therapy.
Oksana Havryliv is an expert on all things profane, crude or obscene. Her research deals with how and when people swear and how verbal aggression is changing in a multicultural society.
Both biological differences and gender have bearing on a person’s health. In Austria, gender medicine research was midwifed by Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, a pioneer in her field.
Persian and Jewish culture are closely connected, says Ariane Sadjed. She aims to illustrate the many faceted nature of the coexistence of Jews and Muslims.
Many of the contemporary-history topics that Barbara Stelzl-Marx has investigated from a retrospective perspective have resurfaced in Europe with the Ukraine war.
In Austria, eight in one hundred children and adolescents are being treated for an eating disorder. Child and adolescent psychiatrist Andreas Karwautz would wish to see more of those affected seeking psychiatric help at an early stage.
FWF Schrödinger Fellow and postdoc in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate David Baker, shares his experience and explains the significance of the advances of protein design for medicine.
Physicist Gregor Weihs about quantum physics in Austria, the importance of knowledge transfer, application development and why basic research is a bit like art.
At the University of Southampton, biotechnology expert Expedito Olimi is contributing to our knowledge of sustainable cycles. The Schrödinger Fellow is studying the microbiome of tomato seeds to maintain the vitality of the plants.
In the international environment of the University of Oxford, the microbiologist Isabella Tomanek is culturing and studying communities of gut bacteria to understand how they work together.
Biotechnologist Kathrin Göritzer develops plant-based antibodies that target the virus' gateway, the mucous membranes. These could be used to prevent infections like SARS-CoV-2 in the future.
Geologist and Schrödinger Fellow Erik Wolfgring is investigating sediment cores from the Cretaceous period. He is exploring the lessons to be learnt from this for the current climate crisis.
Schrödinger Fellwo Maria Kirchmair started out from Naples on a journey through the barely explored Mediterranean world as portrayed in Italian literature and film.
France is known for protests, but also for political states of emergency (états d'urgence) and police repression. Political scientist Katharina Fritsch is investigating the relationship between these aspects.
Lukas Anton Wein’s is conducting research in the competitive field of organic chemistry. To drive this forward the Schrödinger fellow joined the renowned Garg Lab at UCLA.
