PhD students

Cristian Camilo Barrera Grijalba, MSc
FWF Project: Revealing ancestral bilaterian cell types in chaetognaths.
Advisor: Tim Wollesen
room: 4.052
phone: +43 1 4277 76352
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Anna-Chiara Barta, MSc
Phylogeny and Evolution of Peracarida (Crustacea)
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser, Martin Schwendtner
Natural History Museum
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Julian Bibermair, MSc
Embryonic development of phylactolaemate bryozoans
Advisor: Thomas Schwaha
room: 4.051
phone: +43 1 4277 76314
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Margret Eckhard, MSc
Characterisation of defense secretions of centipedes
Advisors: Andreas Wanninger, Janek von Byern

Georgios Efthymiadis, MSc
Shedding light on the evolution of a blind cave fish
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser

Iris Fischer, MSc
Ecological status of aquatic habitats in Vienna: critical comparison of classical monitoring and molecular genetic methods to assess species distribution and composition of the dragonfly fauna
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring

Alice Frisinghelli, BSc MSc
Mesoderm formation in chaetognaths
Advisor: Tim Wollesen
room: 4.052
phone: +43 1 4277 76352
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Antonia Grausgruber, MSc
EvoDevo of vermitids
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger
room: 4.053
phone:+43 1 4277 76320
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Matthäus Greilhuber, MSc
Bridging the gap between population genetics and historic landscape ecology for large Branchiopods
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser
Natural History Museum Vienna
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Sophie Greistorfer, MSc
Glowing mucus – Characterisation of the unique defence secretion of Latia neritoides (Gastropoda)
Advisors: Gerhard Steiner, Janek von Byern

Paul Arthur Höller MSc
Sea spider development and regeneration.
Advisor: Georg Brenneis
Room: 4.052
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Giulia Manso Marchioro MSc
Functional diversity of coral fluorescent proteins in mesophotic reefs
Advisor: Luise Kruckenhauser
Natural History Museum Vienna
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Mag. Katharina Mason
When genetics contradicts morphology: how does this affect our species concepts?
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring
Natural History Museum
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June Feliciano Fronda Ordonez, BSc MSc
Neuronal cell type development in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera (Busch, 1851)
Advisor: Tim Wollesen
room: 4.052
phone: +43 1 4277 76352
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Gudrun Schwarze, MSc
EvoDevo of vermitid gastropods
Advisor: Andreas Wanninger
room: 4.053
phone:+43 1 4277 76319
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Mag. Katharina Wechselberger
Analysis of the main factors influencing the behavior of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) as a basis for the optimization of available crop protection measures on arable land.
Advisor: Harald Krenn
Congratulations!

Willy De Mattia, MSc
Testing genital anatomical characters in clausiliid systematics on the example of Alopiinae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae)
Advisor: Elisabeth Haring
Defensio - Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025, 11:00am CET



