ACHIEVEMENTS & RESEARCH STAYS
Prizes, Awards & Fellowships of HR21 doctoral candidates
Mourine Yegon
Best Student Poster Award ("Microbial Colonization on Terrestrial Leaf Litter Influences Fatty Acid Assimilation by Macroinvertebrate Shredders in Streams"), SIL-Austria Conference, Salzburg, 2024
Flavia Byekwaso
PhD Fellowship, Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future, 2021-2024.
Cong Wang
PhD fellowship, China Scholarship Council (CSC), 2018-2021.
Damiano Baldan
Fellowship of the CEEPUS network “EcoManAqua” for financing a research stay abroad at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 2019.
Eder Markus
Julius Kar Pize for outstanding academic achievement. Verband der Diplomingenieure für Kulturtechnik und Wasserwirtschaft, 2018.
Matthias Pucher
PhD fellowship funded by NÖ Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H, Science Call, 2018.
Damiano Baldan
PhD fellowship funded by NÖ Forschungs- und Bildungsges.m.b.H, Science Call, 2017.
Risper Ondiek
APPEAR PhD-scholarship, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH)
Research stays abroad of HR21 doctoral candidates
Alba Canet Martí
May – July 2023: Research stay at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy.
Project: Simplified models for design and optimisation of FWS wetlands – WATERAGRI project
Adriane Hövel
October - December 2022: Research stay at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere Institute (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Project: Hydrological processes in the Rollesbroich catchment
Lena Junger
May – June 2022: Research stay at the Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany.
Project: Culture of Risk in Spatial Planning
Martin Tschikof
April-May 2022: Research stay at Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
Project: Analysing nutrient retention and other ecosystem services in large Danube floodplains
Bernhard Pucher
October – December 2021: Reserach stay in the group of Prof. Natasa Atanasova at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Project: Development of a multifunctional vertical greening system to support circularity in urban water management
Markus Eder
September 2021 - November 2021: Research stay at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH), Switzerland.
Project: Floodplains and their importance for flood risk reduction, ecology and socio-economy
Risper Ondiek
October 2019 – March 2020: Research stay in the lab of Prof. Nzula Kitakta, Limnology and wetland management, Egerton University, Kenya.
Project: Water quality analysis.
Damiano Baldan
December 2019: Research stay at the Division of Hydrology and Water Resources, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Project: Calibration of the SWAT model for water flows.
Lena Simplerer
October 2019: Research stay in the group of Andreas Matzinger at the “Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH (KWB)”, Germany
Project: Developing a method for analyzing the spatial compatibility of nature-based solutions for reducing urban heat islands and stormwater pollution
Peter Flödl
October - November 2020: Research stay in the group of Ulrich Pulg at the NORCE LFI, Norwegian Research Centre, Laboratorium for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Bergen, Norway
Project: Enhancing methodological approaches for determining physico-chemical conditions
April – May 2019: Research stay in the group of Prof. Emina Hadžić at the Department of Water Resources of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Project: Theoretical and practical specialisation in hydraulic modelling and the further development of methodological approaches to ecological research questions
Matthias Pucher
February 2019: Research stay in the Lab of Prof. Michael Mutz, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg, Germany.
Project: Applications of up-flow reactors to perform lab experiments dealing with sediments and conditions found in the hyporheic zone
Miscellaneous
Matthias Pucher contributed a package to R statistical software:
Pucher, M., Graeber, D., Preiner, S., Pinto, R. (2018) staRdom: PARAFAC analysis on DOM EEMs, calculating absorbance slopes. CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=staRdom, first published 16.4.2018