On November 26, 2018 the jury meeting of the third WWTF Cognitive Sciences Call took place in Vienna. In total 18 PIs were invited to submitt a full proposal. 6 projects will be funded with a total funding amount of 3.5 m €.
On December 11, WWTF Board of Directors made the formal funding decision after the selection of the funded positions by the call jury. Three positions are funded with 1.6 m € for each of the groups. The funded group leaders will be announced shortly.
Bernhard Freyer presents his current research project "The Future of Urban Food (FOOD) - Scenarios of urban agro-food systems and their eco-economic impacts for the case of Vienna" in a short video.
Giulio Superti-Furga presents his current research project "3C - Cellular Color Chart" in a short video.
Silvia Cervero-Arago presents her current research project "The impact of Giardia spp. as a reference pathogen in urban water systems" in a short video.
WWTF launched the "Information and Communication Technology" project call 2019. Eligible are ICT projects up to a funding sum of € 800,000. The overall call budget is € 5,5 million.
The VRG Group has won a Distinguished Paper Award at the A*-ranked ACM Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications for the publication "Randomized Testing of Distributed Systems with Probabilistic Guarantees" by WWTF-funded PostDoc Mitra Tabaei Befrouei and her co-authors from MPI-SWS. Congratulations!
Elly Tanaka presents her current research project "Photochemical control of biohybrid matrices to reconstitute nervous system organization from three-dimensional neural organoids" in a short video.
On September 3 and 4, 2018 the jury meeting took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submit a full proposal. 9 projects were recommended for funding, with a total amount of 6.261.000 €.
Jakob Lederer presents his current research project TransLoC: Transformation of Cities into a Low Carbon Future and its Impact on Urban Metabolism, Environment, and Society"
Christian Becker presents his current research project "Structure Zoom, Zooming in on protein functional sites with atomic resolution - an integrated chemistry approach for structural biology" in a short video.
The two WWTF funded researchers Jillian Petersen and Filipa Sousa each receive an ERC Starting Grant endowed with 1.5 m €. WWTF congratulates the two group leaders at the University of vienna and wishes great success with their research!
Fridolin Krausmann presents his current research project "Vienna's global biodiversity footprint. A multi-scale analysis outlining options to reduce urban pressures on biodiversity".
GEECCO team has the pleasure to share with you the second issue of the GEECCO project newsletter.
The Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators 2018 call in the area of "Information and Communication Technology" closed on Jul 12. WWTF received 17 submissions. The funding decision will be made in December.
Daniel Gerlich presents his current research project "Elucidating sister chromatid structure by chemical DNA labeling and conformation capture"
With the fifth WWTF Science Dinner on June 14, 2018 we celebrated the successful projects of the 2017 calls Life Sciences "Chemical Biology" and Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments. The vanue at the Austrian National Library provided a perfectly solemn atmosphere.
Pictures of the event can now be found here.
WIRE 2018 will be organised by Tiroler Zukunftsstiftung – Standortagentur Tirol, in the context of Austria’s EU presidency in cooperation with BMBWF Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and cofunded by the European Commission DG Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020 Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation).
The current Cognitive Sciences call for short proposals is closed since April 12, 2018. WWTF received 55submissions of which the international jury - in a meeting in Vienna end of May - selected 18 to be invited to submit a full proposal. For these, the submission of an extended application is possible until August 9, 2018. Subsequently, the proposals will undergo international peer review.
The full proposal phase for the thrid Life Sciences Call "Linking Research & Patients' Needs" ended on May 18, 2018. 25 full proposals have been submitted and are now under international peer review. The international call jury will formulate a funding recommendation to the WWTF Board of Directors in autumn 2018.
The third Cognitive Sciences (CS18) call for short proposals is closed since April 12, 2018. WWTF received 55 submissions. The call jury will review the short proposals and decide which projects will be invited to submit a full proposal.
On November 30 and December 1, 2017 the jury meeting for the eighth Vienna Research Groups Call took place in Vienna. For the second time, the topic of the Call was "Mathematics and...". Two positions with a maximum funding of 1.6 Mio. € by the City of Vienna were advertised.
In his current WWTF-project "Equatorial wave-current interactions" , Adrian Constantin from the University of Vienna uses mathematics to predict the climatic phenomenon more accurately in the future.
The Vienna Research Groups for Youn Investigators Call in the domain of Information and Communication Technlogy is now open. Proposals can be submitted by the July 12, 2018. Go to Call details.
This is one of the questions which mathematician Agata Ciabattoni from the Institute of Logic & Computation at the Technical University Vienna and her Co-PI Elisa Freschi, a Sanskritist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences deal with in their current WWTF project Reasoning Tools for Deontic logic and Applications to Indian Sacred Texts.
The Life Sciences Call 2018 "Linking Research & Patients' Needs" is closed. The deadline for the submission of short proposals ended on January 18, 2018 at 2 pm. 114 proposals have been submitted.
The current Cognitive Sciences Call 2018 is now open. Short proposals can be submitted by the 12.04.2018. More information can be found here: "CS18" .
Walter Schachermayer presents his current research project "Macroprudential bank regulation: a continuous time approach".
On December 6 and 7, 2017 the jury meeting took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submit a full proposal. 8 projects were recommended for funding, with a total amount of 4.686.000 €.
Anna Obenauf presents her current research project "Deciphering genomic aberrations in rare skin cancers to find mechanism-based treatment strategies" in a short video.
Georg Tauböck presents his current research project "Infinite Dimensional Signal Processing Techniques for Acoustic Applications (INSIGHT)"
The European project GEECCO faces the challenge of promoting and increasing the presence of women working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The implementation of actions that eliminate barriers to hiring, maintaining and promoting women researchers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is the objective of the European project Gender Equality in Engineering through Communication and Commitment (GEECCO), carried out by nine European partners.
Kaan Boztug presents his current research project "Systems precision medicine of inborn errors of the immune system (PrecisePID)" in a short video.
Norbert J. Mauser presents his current research project "Schrödinger Equations for QUantum EXperiments (SEQUEX)" in a short video.
The current Life Sciences Call 2018 "Linking Research and Patients' Needs" is now open. Short proposals can be submitted by the 18. 01.2017. More information can be found here: "LS18" .
What could be the next step after a scientific discovery? WWTF answers this question with its new funding scheme NEXT
Rainer Oberbauer presents his current research project "Prolongation of kidney transplant survival through risk stratification of omics-wide incompatibilities using systems biology - a personalized medicine approach" in a short video.
On September 7 and 8, 2017 the jury meeting of the first WWTF Pilot Call Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments took place in Vienna. In total 25 PIs were invited to submitt a full proposal. 7 projects will be funded with a total funding amount of 4.2 m €.
Peter Klimek presents his current research project "Optimal gender-specific treatment paths on healthcare multiplex networks" in a short video.
Paolo Piovano presents his current research project "Modeling and Design of Epitaxially Strained Nanoislands" in a short video.
Aneuploidy, the presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell, is a still widely underresearched phenomenon.
A team of researchers from Austria and Germany, led by Andrew Straw, developed a VR-System for freely moving animals - FreemoVR.
The full proposal phase for the Life Sciences Call 2017 - Chemical Biology ended on August 18, 2017. 25 full proposals have been submitted and are now under international peer review. The international call jury will formulate a funding recommendation to the WWTF Board of Directors in winter 2017.
On October 20, 2017, the InterCLAP International Conference on Cognition, Language and Perception will take place in Vienna in the context of the WWTF-funded project of Prof. Ulrich Ansorge and Dr. Soonja choi.
Maria Sibilia presents her current research project "Therapeutic targeting of EGFR in colorectal cancer as a novel approach to predict and enhance tumor antigenicity and response to checkpoint inhibitors" in a short video.
Adrian Constantin presents his current research project "Equatorial wave-current interactions" in a short video.
The eighth Vienna Research Groups Call, with the topic "Mathematics and..." closed on July 13, 2017.
Carolin Kosiol presents her current research project "Genome-wide Molecular Dating" in a short video.
Giulio Superti-Furga presents his current research project "PHARMACOSCOPY: Breaking resistance of refractory blood cancers through ex vivo automated image-based analysis of drug action" in a short video.
On December 5, 2016 the jury meeting for the seventh Vienna Research Groups Call took place in Vienna. For the first time, the topic of the Call was "Complexitiy Sciences". One position with a maximum funding of 1.6 Mio. € by the City of Vienna was advertised.
On May 22, 2017 the jury meeting of the first WWTF Call for transfer projects took place in Vienna. In total 40 projects that had been funded by WWTF in previous calls were invited to submit a proposal for a specific transfer activity.
Agata Ciabattoni presents her current research project "Reasoning Tools for Deontic logic and Applications to Indian Sacred Texts" in a short video.
For the fourth time WWTF celebrated the successful projects of the two calls Life Sciences Precision Medicine 2016 and Mathematics and... 2016 with its Science Dinner on Monday May 29, 2017.
The motility of leucocytes does strongly differ from that of other cell types. In contrast to most other cells, leucocytes do not have pseudopodia, with which they can cling to a surface. If the surrounding space is narrow enough, leucocytes can nevertheless stick to a surface.
A new project call in the WWTF Life Sciences programme will start in early fall 2017. The call topic will be again (after 2007 and 2011) be "Linking Research and Patients' Needs".
A Nnew project call in the WWTF Cognitive Sciences programme will start in early 2018. The call's setup will be quite similar to the last one in 2015.
After 2011, a new call for Vienna Research Groups will be issued early 2018 in the domain of “Information and Communication Technology”
The current Life Sciences "Chemical Biology" (LS17) call for short proposals is closed since April 27, 2017. WWTF received 77 submissions of which the international jury - in a meeting in Vienna end of May - selected 25 to be invited to submit a full proposal. For these, the submission of an extended application is possible until August 18, 2017. Subsequently, the proposals will undergo international peer reviews.
The full proposal phase for the first Pilot Call "Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments" ended on May 18, 2017. 25 full proposals have been submitted and are now under international peer review. The international call jury will formulate a funding recommendation to the WWTF Board of Directors in autumn 2017.
In order to protect their colony carpenter ants found in south-east Asia can make their gaster burst. Scientists in the team of Irina Druzhinina investigate how this self-sacrification has evolved.
The current Life Sciences "Chemical Biology" (LS17) call for short proposals is closed since April 27, 2017. WWTF received 77 submissions. The call jury will decide what projects will be invited to submit a full proposal.
The understanding of defective DNA repair in cells can improve the efficacy of cancer therapies.
Workshop about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and transfer activities for WWTF funded projects
Scientists from Martin Leeb's group at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, together with colleagues at the University of Cambridge, successfully mapped the 3D structure of the genome in single mammalian stem cells.
It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the passing away of Anna Tramontano. She was a longstanding friend and supporter of WWTF and an outstanding scientist. We express our sincere condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues.
Anna was professor at the Sapienza University of Rome and member of the Scientific Council of the ERC.
In 2015 Filipa L. Sousa was recruited to the University of Vienna through the Vienna Research Group funding programme (financed by the City of Vienna) and was awarded € 1.6 m. The newspaper “Die Presse” released a detailed portrait of Filipa and her research on Archaea.
60 researchers participated in the Proposers' Day and Matchmaking Event for the Life Sciences 2017 "Chemical Biology" on March 8.
On March 9-10, 2017 the international jury of the “Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments” Pilot Call met in Vienna to make the decision on the invitation to the full proposal phase. Out of all 93 submitted proposals, 25 have been invited to submit a full proposal. The deadline for full proposals is on May 18, 2017 at 2 pm.
3.000 private video recordings were collected and archived under the direction of Gabriele Fröschl, PI of the WWTF funded project SSH13-007 "The Changing Role of Audio-Visual Archives as Memory Storages in the Public Space. Using the example of private video sources" . The project was funded within the 2013 Public Spaces inTransition Call, the last call within the Social Sciencs & Humanities (SSH) in Vienna Programme funded by the City of Vienna.
WWTF orgnizes a Proposers' Day and Matchmaking Event on March 8, 14:00. We will inform about the calls in details and offer the opportunity to network with other interested reserchers from complementary fields and disciplines.
Christoph Eisenegger (1978-2017) passed away unexpectedly during a stay abroad. We highly appreciated him as a person and as a researcher. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.
The new website is launched!
Research conducted in the WWTF-funded project of Thomas Dorner (LS12-039) shows that social interaction reduced the frailty of elderly persons.
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna recently published a study in the high impact journal "Scientific Reports". In this study they could show, that a neuropeptide ("inotocin") isolated from ants has a particularly high pharmacological potential for humans.
Researchers in the team of Manuela Baccarini (MFPL), Co-PI in the project MA14-049 discovered a surprising role of the protein RAF1 in cancer cells: usually this protein enhances tumor cell growth, however it has the opposite effect in liver carcinomas, where in some tumor cell types it suppresses cell growth.
The first pilotcall "Environmental Systems Research: Urban Environments" is closed. The deadline for the submission of short proposals ended on January 19, 2017 at 2 pm. 93 proposals have been submitted.
The "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)" recently selected Monika Henzinger (projects ICT10-002 and ICT15-003) as the only representative of an Austrian University as an ACM Fellow.
Giorgia Silani (CS15-003) (Universität Wien) and her team use latest technology to look into the control center of our bodies and investigate the reward system in the brain.
In sophisticated experiments, Alipasha Vaziri has shown that the human eye is able to perceive single photons. Vaziri came to Vienna thanks to a WWTF Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators grant in 2010 (VRG10-011). He now has his own lab at the Rockefeller University in New York.
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