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From 2003-2011 calls organised by the WWTF have led to funding for 120 research projects of terms between two and four years, in our four thematic programmes, with altogether about € 58 million in financing made available.
Furthermore, from 2008-2011 calls organized by WWTF allowed funding of additional 20 research projects and three fellowships in the thematic programme Social Sciences and Humanities - funded by the City of Vienna - with altogether about 6 Mio. € in financing made available.
Ongoing projects
IKT Call 2012
IKT Call 2012
- Maia Zaharieva, Unusual sequences detection in very large video collections
- Gerald Matz, The Information Bottleneck Principle in Multiterminal Communication and Inference
- Reinhard Pichler, SEE: SPARQL Evaluation and Extensions
- Florian Zuleger, Automated Program Analysis for Bounds on Resource Consumption
- Stefan Fenz, Formalizing Information Security Risk and Compliance Management
- Philip Walther, PhoCluDi - Photonic Cluster States From Diamond
- Uwe Zdun, Supporting Containment Checking for UML Behaviour Diagrams (CONTAINER)
- Christoph Becker, Benchmark DP
- Jürgen Waser, Scenario Pool: Visual analytics for action planning in the presence of uncertainty
- 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
- 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
- Florian Kiefer, Vitamin A metabolism in the regulation of energy balance
- Michael Trauner, Unravelling the pathogenetic mechanisms of fructose consumption as multiple hit in the pathogenesis and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
- 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
- Qendrim Zebeli, d-i.INFLACOW: Characterization and prevention of diet- induced inflammation and related immune and metabolic disorders in dairy cows
- Gerhard Adam, Deoxynivalenol-glucoside and acetylated derivatives: relevant masked mycotoxins?
Kognitionsforschung Call 2011
- 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
- Zsófia Virányi, The semantics of talking with the eyes and gestures: the hormonal and cognitive underpinnings of comprehending cooperative intentional communication in domestic dogs and wolves
- Ludwig Huber, Like me: The evolutionary and neuro-cognitive basis of the link between imitation, empathy and prosocial behaviour in dogs and humans
- Andrew Straw, Algorithms, neural circuitry, and genetics of high-level visual behavior in the fly
- Ulrich Ansorge, Modeling Visual Attention as a Key Factor in Visual Recognition and Quality of Experience
- Christine Schwab, Modelling social transmission: how relationships, group size and group structure influence social learning in wild and captive corvids
Life Sciences Call 2011
- Reinhard Kirnbauer , Second generation human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for broad-spectrum protection against HPV-induced skin and mucosal neoplasia
- Clemens Vass, The relation between retinal and optic nerve head parameters and circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer profile
- Peter Petzelbauer , A new treatment concept for lung injury
- Winfried Mayr and Ursula Hofstötter, Augmentation of residual neural control by non-invasive spinal cord stimulation to modify spasticity in spinal cord injured people
- Stephan E.R. Domayer, Quantitative MRI assessment of cartilage glyco-saminoglyacan content in the ankle
- Andreas Weinhäusel, Serum-Autoantibody testing for early diagnosis of Breast Cancer
- Claudia Kuntner, Enhanced Therapy for Liver Malignancies based on Optimised Secondary Particle Radiotherapy and Bio-pharmacokinetic Modelling
- Stephan N. Wagner, Tumor-infiltrating CD20+ B cells: Promoters of human melanoma?
Diversität - Identität Call 2011
- 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
- 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)
- Wiebke Sievers, Literature on the move
IKT Call 2010
- Marco Zapletal, EDImine - Mining Inter-organizational Business Processes
- Helmut Veith, PROSEED: Proof Seeding for Software Verification
- Holger Arthaber, PWM-based transmitter for green base-stations (TX4Green)
- Erwin Riegler, Noncoherent Wireless Communications over Doubly Selective Channels (NOWIRE)
- Martina Seidl, FAME: Formalizing and Managing Evolution in Model-Driven Engineering
- Christoph Pacher, HiPANQ - High Performance Algorithms for Next Generation Quantum Key Distribution
- Kurt Tutschku, Optimization Challenges in the Operation of the Future, Federated Internet (OptFI)
- Michael Hentschel, LQuNet - Local Quantum Network
- Monika Henzinger, Challenges in Sponsored Search Auctions
- Harald Trost, Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling of Language Varieties
Diversität - Identität Call 2010
- Gerit Bettina Götzenbrucker, Serious Beats. Internetnutzung und Freundschaftsstrukturen von jungen MigrantInnen in Wien. Eine Analyse der integrationsstiftenden Potenziale von sozialen Netzwerken und online-Spielen
- Brigitta Busch, PluS - When plurilingual speakers encounter unilingual environments. Migrants from African countries in Vienna: Language practices and institutional communication
- Anne Goujon, Past, present and future religious prospects in Vienna 1950 - 2050
- Ingo Haar, Jewish migration and diversity in Vienna and Berlin (1881 – 1918)
Life Sciences Call 2009
- Wilfried Ellmeier, Epigenetic Regulation of T Cell Development and Function
- 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.
- Walter Rossmanith, A tRNA methyltransferase and 5' endonuclease: molecular mechanisms of a multifunctional mitochondrial enzyme
- 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
- Susanne Zeilinger, BIOGEN: From genes to biocontrol
- Krystyna Keleman, Molecular mechanisms of memory formation: targets of Drosophila Orb2
- Holger Daims, Multiphasic comparative analysis of key nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in wastewater treatment plants
- Sebastian MB Nijman, Searching for Cancer Achilles' Heels
- Joseph Strauss, TOXI-GENOME: Understanding and exploiting epigenetic chromatin regulation mechanisms to mine fungal genomes for novel secondary metabolites
- Jan-Michael Peters, Molecular function of CTCF and cohesins in regulating nuclear organization and gene activity
- Silke Dorner, The dynamics of the miRNA effector complex
Mathematik und ... Call 2009
- Adrian Constantin, The flow beneath a surface water wave
- Monika Dörfler, Audio-Miner. Mathematical Signal Analysis and Modeling for Manipulation of Sound Objects
- Christian Schmeiser, Mathematical modeling of actin driven cell migration
- Clemens Heitzinger, Mathematics and Nano-Sensors
- Beatrice Acciaio, Mathematics of Financial Risk Measurement and Stochastic Dependence
- Gino Hrkac, Micromagnetic Simulations and Computational Design of Future Devices
- Florian Frommlet, Optimal selection procedures in genome wide association studies
- Stefan Rotter, Light coupling to light: nonlinear interactions in semiconductor microlasers
- Maarten Janssen, The Evolution of Norms and Conventions in Economics
- Georg Pflug, Energy Policies and Risk Management for the 21st Century
Art(s)&Sciences Call 2009
- Sieglinde Rosenberger & Julia Mourão Permoser, Living rooms: The Art of Mobilizing Belonging(s)
- Bernd Kräftner, ''In the event of...'' Anticipatory and participatory politics of emergency provision
- Marion von Osten, Model House - Mapping Transcultural Modernism
- Ursula Holtgrewe, \'\'Empowerment\'\' in artistic and social scientific work practices
IKT Call 2008
- Horst Zimmermann, High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Imaging
- Christoph Grimm, Methodology for Design of Accurate and Robust Communication Systems (MARC)
- Markus Hadwiger, SCALE-VS: Research on the Scalability and Confluence of Scientific Visualization and Interactive Segmentation
- Gerald Matz, Distributed Information Processing for Spatio-Temporal Fields in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Michael Fink , Inconsistency Management for Knowledge-Integration Systems
- Roman Pflugfelder, Simultaneous Calibration and Tracking: A Joint Optimization Approach for Arbitrarily Placed Cameras
- Reinhard Pichler, Service-Oriented Data Integration
- Ivona Brandic , FoSII - Foundations of Self-Governing ICT Infrastructures
- Margrit Gelautz, Temporal-Consistent Stereo Matting for High-Quality Novel View Synthesis and Visual Effects
- Helmut Hlavacs, Content Aware Coding for Mobile TV
- Stefan Woltran, New Methods for Analyzing, Comparing, and Solving Argumentation Problems
Life Sciences Call 2007
- Michael Dworzak & Veronika Sexl, Flow cytometric signal typing for therapy response prediction in pediatric myeloid leukemia
- Marcin F. Osuchowski & Soheyl Bahrami, Age & gender related septic complications in trauma patients: individually tailored treatment during posttraumatic phase
- 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
Mathematik und … Call 2007
- Holger Rauhut & Georg Tauböck , Sparse Signals and Operators: Theory, Methods, and Applications (SPORTS)
- Claus Rüffler, Multidimensional adaptive dynamics and the evolution of phenotype determination
- Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Agglomeration processes in ageing societies
- Agata Ciabattoni, Fuzzy Logic: from Mathematics to Medical Applications
Completed projects
Art(s) & Sciences Call 2008
- Siegfried Mattl, Film.Stadt.Wien: A Transdisciplinary exploration of Vienna as a cinematic city
- Fellow: Peter Keicher, Fellowship: Wittgenstein and the Arts
- Fellow: Barbara Wenk, Fellowship: Communication lab for developing network-based spaces for science center activities in Vienna
- Eva Laquièze-Waniek und Robert Pfaller, Transferences: Psychoanalysis – Art - Society
Mathematik und … Call 2007
- Alex D. Gottlieb, Correlation in quantum systems
- Robert Hammerling, Schrödinger operators with subperiodic lattice symmetries: applications to quantum wires and STM
- Christoph Flamm & Philipp Kügler, Elucidating spatio-temporal coherence of cellular processes by data-driven inverse analysis: redox rhythmicity in yeast and diffusion controlled hormone feedback cycles
- Andrea Schnepf & Sabine Klepsch, Mathematics and Rhizotechnology. Mathematical methods for upscaling of rhizosphere control mechanisms.
- Peter Balazs, Frame Multipliers: Theory and Applications in Acoustics
- Thomas Zemen, COCOMINT: Cooperative Communications in Traffic Telematics
Fünf Sinne Call 2006
- Madalina Diaconu, Haptic and Olfactory Design - Resources for Vienna's Creative Industries
- Michael Pucher, Viennese Sociolect and Dialect Synthesis
- Sibylle Moser und Katharina Gsöllpointner, Aesthetic Know How. Language - Technology - Media
- Andrea B. Braidt and Klemens Gruber, Digital Formalism: The Vienna Vertov-Collection
- Peter Markowich, Mathematical Methods for Image Analysis and Processing in the Visual Arts
- Stefan Maierhofer, WikiVienna - Building your own city in virtual space
- Andreas Gebesmair, Embedded Industries. Cultural entrepreneurs in different immigrant communities of Vienna
- Karin Harrasser, Science with all senses - Gender and Science in the Making
- Werner Purgathofer, LEOPOLD - Lively Experience of the Pasttime of Leopoldsberg from Digital Archeological Data
Life Sciences Call 2005
- Jürgen Knoblich, Proliferation control in tumor stem cells
- Verena Jantsch, Faithful meiotic chromosome segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans
- Joachim Seipelt, Molecular Mechanisms of Antivirals
- Andrea Pichler , Crosstalk between SUMO and ubiquitin
- Joseph Strauss, NITRO-GENOM: Increasing Nitrogen Efficacy in Agricultural Systems by Understanding and Manipulating the Biotic 'Black-Box'
- Rudolf Schweyen, Mg2 channel proteins: Structure/function analysis and potential drug targets
- Tim Clausen, Function of Clp-mediated proteolysis in bacterial pathogenesis
SciENCE for Creative Industries Call 2003/2004
- Gernot Gruber, Online Content Management System for Vienna Music Institutions
- Andreas Resch, Creative Industries in Vienna: Development, Dynamics and Potentials
- Jörg Flecker, Sustainable Work and Employment in Vienna's Creative Industries
- Christina Lammer and Peter Pokieser, CorpoRealities
- Silvia Miksch, Interactive Information Visualization
- Gerhard Widmer, Interfaces to Music (I2M)
- Andreas Bergbaur, Strategies and Networks of Contemporary Fashion Designers
- Oliver Rathkolb, Creative Access: Digital archives between open knowledge society and commodification in Vienna
- Nikolaus Franke, Implications of Toolkits for User Innovation and Design
- Konrad Karner, Creative Histories - The Josefsplatz Experience
Mathematik und … Call 2004
- Christoph Flamm, Modelling the Dynamics of Cellular Networks using Inverse Methods
- Walter Schachermayer, Mathematics and Credit Risk
- Reinhard Bürger , Mathematics and Evolution: Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Ecological and Genetic Diversity
- Georg Pflug, SIMOPT/ENERGY
- Alfred Taudes , Mathematical Modelling for Integrated Demand and Supply Chain Management
- Thomas Zemen, Future Mobile Communications Systems, Mathematical Modeling, Analysis, and Algorithms for Multi Antenna Systems
- Christian Schmeiser, How do cells move? Mathematical modelling of cytoskeletal dynamics and cell migration
- Norbert Mauser, Ultrafast spectroscopy and time-dependent density functional theory
- Karlheinz Gröchenig, Modern Harmonic Analysis Methods for Advanced Wireless Communications (MOHAWI)
Life Sciences Call 2003
- Martin Wagner, High-throughput quantification of salmonella and listeria
- Karl Kuchler, Molecular analysis of interactions between pathogens and host organisms
- Herta Steinkellner, Glycodesign in plants
- 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
- Joseph Strauss, Genome research for a clean environment
- Robert Konrat, Structural and functional genomics by means of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
- Johannes Stöckl, Oxidised phospholipids and the function of dendritic cells
- Holger Daims, Characterisation of new nitrite-oxidising bacteria
- Andrea Barta, Analysis of stress reaction mechanisms in plants