This project database comprises research projects, endowed chairs, Vienna Research Groups, and university infrastructure projects funded by WWTF. It is regularily updated.
Ongoing projects
IKT Call 2012
- Uwe Zdun, Supporting Containment Checking for UML Behaviour Diagrams (CONTAINER)
- Maia Zaharieva, Unusual sequences detection in very large video collections
- Philip Walther, PhoCluDi - Photonic Cluster States From Diamond
- Markus Aspelmeyer, Optomechanical systems as building blocks for optical and quantum information processing
Life Sciences Call 2012
- Thomas E. Dorner, Nutrition intervention and physical training in malnourished frail community-dwelling elderly subjects carried out by trained lay buddies
- Enikö Kallay, Dietary vitamin D, a powerful weapon in the war against colorectal cancer
- Florian Kiefer, Vitamin A metabolism in the regulation of energy balance
- Tamar Kinaciyan, Epidemiology of food allergy in and around Vienna and the impact of filaggrin gene loss-of-function mutation on food allergy in for food allergy extensively and state-of-the art investigated patients from this survey
- Alexander Loy, Nutrition and the intestinal microbiota-host symbiosis: A holistic stable isotope-labeling approach to decipher key microbial players and quantitatively link single cell activity to system function
- Michael Trauner, Unravelling the pathogenetic mechanisms of fructose consumption as multiple hit in the pathogenesis and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Call 2012
Kognitionsforschung Call 2011
- Christine Schwab, Modelling social transmission: how relationships, group size and group structure influence social learning in wild and captive corvids
- Claus Lamm, The role of the opioid system for empathic responses to pain and their link to prosocial behaviour - OPIOIDEMPATHY
- Helmut Leder, Time makes the difference! Uncovering the nature of aesthetic experience
- Ulrich Ansorge, Modeling Visual Attention as a Key Factor in Visual Recognition and Quality of Experience
Life Sciences Call 2011
- Peter Petzelbauer , A new treatment concept for lung injury
- Stephan E.R. Domayer, Quantitative MRI assessment of cartilage glyco-saminoglyacan content in the ankle
- Stephan N. Wagner, Tumor-infiltrating CD20+ B cells: Promoters of human melanoma?
- Clemens Vass, The relation between retinal and optic nerve head parameters and circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer profile
- Winfried Mayr and Ursula Hofstötter, Augmentation of residual neural control by non-invasive spinal cord stimulation to modify spasticity in spinal cord injured people
- Reinhard Kirnbauer , Second generation human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for broad-spectrum protection against HPV-induced skin and mucosal neoplasia
Diversität - Identität Call 2011
- Roland Verwiebe and Christoph Reinprecht, TRANSLAB - Cross-Border Labour Mobility, Transnational Labour Markets and Social Differentiation in the Central European Region
- Projektleiterin: Ayse Caglar, CITYSCALERS
- Thomas Ertl, Handling Diversity. Medieval Europe and India in Comparison (13th-18th Centuries CE)
- Projektleiter: Wolfgang U. Dressler, INPUT - Investigating Parental and Other Caretakers\' Utterances to Kindergarten Children
- Projektleiterin: Ulrike Felt, From lab to intervention and back. Doing and undoing diversity in obesity research, treatment and prevention
Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators Call 2010
Life Sciences Call 2009
- Silke Dorner, The dynamics of the miRNA effector complex
- Tobias Sieberer, Towards sustainable food and bioenergy security for society: Establishing an academic compound screening platform in Vienna to characterize and modulate Strigolactone synthesis in plants.
- Renate Kain, Analysis of the consequences of autoimmunity to anti-lysosomal Membran Protein-2 (hLAMP-2) in focal necrotizing Glomerlulonephritis (FNGN): towards novel therapeutic and monitoring strategies
- Wilfried Ellmeier, Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell Development and Function
- Walter Rossmanith, A tRNA methyltransferase and 5' endonuclease: molecular mechanisms of a multifunctional mitochondrial enzyme
- Holger Daims, Multiphasic comparative analysis of key nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in wastewater treatment plants
Mathematik und ... Call 2009
- Florian Frommlet, Optimal selection procedures in genome wide association studies
- Maarten Janssen, The Evolution of Norms and Conventions in Economics
- Georg Pflug, Energy Policies and Risk Management for the 21st Century
- Monika Dörfler, Audio-Miner. Mathematical Signal Analysis and Modeling for Manipulation of Sound Objects
- Adrian Constantin, The flow beneath a surface water wave
- Beatrice Acciaio, Mathematics of Financial Risk Measurement and Stochastic Dependence
Art(s)&Sciences Call 2009
Kognitionsforschung Stiftungsprofessuren 2008
IKT Call 2008
Life Sciences Call 2007
- Sabine Zöchbauer-Müller, Mapping of CpG island methylation and its prognostic relevance in lung cancer
- Michael Wolzt, Therapy of Ischemia-Reperfusion-Injury by Heme Oxygenase-1 Induction in Skeletal Muscle and Ischemic Kidney
- Michael Dworzak & Veronika Sexl, Flow cytometric signal typing for therapy response prediction in pediatric myeloid leukemia
Mathematik und ... Stiftungsprofessuren 2006
Completed projects
Art(s) & Sciences Call 2008
Fünf Sinne Call 2006
- Peter Markowich, Mathematical Methods for Image Analysis and Processing in the Visual Arts
- Werner Purgathofer, LEOPOLD - Lively Experience of the Pasttime of Leopoldsberg from Digital Archeological Data
- Madalina Diaconu, Haptic and Olfactory Design - Resources for Vienna's Creative Industries
- Andrea B. Braidt and Klemens Gruber, Digital Formalism: The Vienna Vertov-Collection
Mathematik und ... Stiftungsprofessuren 2006
Life Sciences Call 2005
SciENCE for Creative Industries Call 2003/2004
Mathematik und … Call 2004
- Karlheinz Gröchenig, Modern Harmonic Analysis Methods for Advanced Wireless Communications (MOHAWI)
- Georg Pflug, SIMOPT/ENERGY
- Christoph Flamm, Modelling the Dynamics of Cellular Networks using Inverse Methods
- Reinhard Bürger , Mathematics and Evolution: Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Ecological and Genetic Diversity
Life Sciences Call 2003
- Karl Kuchler, Molecular analysis of interactions between pathogens and host organisms
- Stefan Thurner, Identification of relevant gene product interactions associated with capillary changes due to diabetes, using molecular networks
- Johannes Berger, Developing the foundation for tests for the early diagnosis of cALD
- Robert Konrat, Structural and functional genomics by means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Andrea Barta, Analysis of stress reaction mechanisms in plants
- Johannes Stöckl, Oxidised phospholipids and the function of dendritic cells
- Holger Daims, Characterisation of new nitrite-oxidising bacteria

