The uni:docs fellowship programme is an individual scholarship which aims at financing excellent candidates for a period of three years. In October 2016, the following 21 uni:docs fellows start their research position at the University of Vienna.
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Research Project: Genopolitics: The Dynamics in Trying to Make a New Research Field
Supervisor: Ulrike Felt
Department of Mathematics
Research project: Innovative Signal Representation in Machine Learning (ISiRIM) - Methods for Music
Supervisor: Monika Dörfler
Department of History of Art
Research projcet: Alois Riegl und Die Entstehung der Barockkunst in Rom
Supervisor: Sebastian Schütze
Department of Contemporary History
Research project: Zur Diskursivierung der ‚weiblichen Homosexuellen‘ – Transfers zwischen Sexualwissenschaften, Rechtsdiskurs und Frauenbewegungen in Deutschland (1870-1914)
Supervisors: Johanna Gehmacher, Franz X. Eder
Department of Egyptology
Research project: Militärisches und administratives Personal in der südlichen und zentralen Levante. Eine Betrachtung der Bronzezeit mit Fokus auf spätbronzezeitlichen Machtausübungen
Supervisors: E. Christiana Köhler, Wolfgang Zwickel
Department of English and American Studies
Research project: “Too much information!? The ‘disgusting’ female body in contemporary popular culture between subversion and commodification”
Supervisor: Monika Seidl
Department of History of Art
Research project: Der Schlagschatten in der Malerei des 14. und frühen 15. Jahrhunderts. Zur Funktion und Genese eines Bildelements.
Supervisor: Michael Viktor Schwarz
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research
Research project: Detecting ‘invaders in disguise’ – DNA barcoding of invasive plant species in Austria
Supervisor: Gerald Schneeweiss
Department of East Asian Studies
Research project: Contemporary Chinese Biography: the Many Faces of Jiang Qing
Supervisor: Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
Department of Philosophy
Research project: Neo-Kantianism and Sociology. Comparing German and French Academic Fields, 1870-1930.
Supervisor: Elisabeth Nemeth
Department of Education
Research project: Developing an Understanding for the Overrepresented Referral of Pupils with Turkish Background to Special Education in Austria
Supervisor: Gottfried Biewer
Department for Economics
Research project: Network Marketing and Consumer Search
Supervisor: Maarten Janssen
Department of German Studies
Research project: Der Kriegsblinde und das Hörspiel. Ästhetiken und Politiken der Blindheit im Rundfunk (1920er-1960er)
Supervisor: Eva Horn
Department of Communication
Research project: Learning from multimedia news? The effects of multimedia journalism on citizens’ political knowledge
Supervisor: Hajo Boomgarden
Department of Communication
Research project: Political Actors on Social Media: Outreach, Message Content and Effects on Young Citizens
Supervisor: Jörg Matthes
Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy
Research project: New work demands and health: exploring links, mechanisms and causal relations.
Supervisors: Christian Korunka & Sara Tement (University of Maribor)
Department of Economics
Research project: Reserve Requirements: Revival of an outdated instrument in economic policy?
Supervisor: Paul Pichler
Department of Government
Research project: Class Voting Revisited
Supervisor: Sylvia Kritzinger
Department of Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
Reserach project: Experimental Study of Causal Structures in Quantum Mechanics
Supervisor: Philip Walther
Department for Limnology and Bio-Oceanography
Research project: “Stilbonematology”: Diversity and phylogeny of a marine bacteria-nematode symbiosis
Supervisor:Jörg Ott
Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics
Research project: Centriole Assembly and Function in Ciliogenesis
Supervisor: Alexander Dammermann
