Community

Our growing Anthropocene community consists of our members at the University of Vienna as well as associated researchers and visiting scholars who we are always happy to welcome at the Vienna Anthropocene Network!

Founders | Members | Associated Researchers | Visiting Scholars | Staff

Founders

Eva Horn

Eva Horn is Professor of Modern German Literature at the Department of German Studies and founder of the Vienna Anthropocene Network.

Research Areas: Aesthetics of the Anthropocene, Narrative, Processes of Scaling, Climate Change, Climate and Culture

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Michael Wagreich

Michael Wagreich is Professor of Geology at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy and co-founder of the Vienna Anthropocene Network.

Research Areas: Geosciences, Anthropocene Starting Dates, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy

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Members

Ulrich Brand

Ulrich Brand is Professor for International Politics at the Department of Political Science.

Research Areas: International Environmental and Resource Politics, Imperial Mode of Living, Socio-Ecological Transformation, Critical Social Theory, Latin America

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Anna Echterhölter

Anna Echterhölter is Professor for the History of Science at the Department of History.

Research Areas: History of Quantification, Resource Statistics, Standards and Data, Energy and Performance Measurement, Scales and Long Term Thinking, Historical Epistemology, Technosphere

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Ulrike Felt

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Science and Technology Studies.

Research Areas: Science Communication, Governance, Knowledge Production, Socio-technical Infrastructures, Environment, Plastics

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Thomas Glade

Thomas Glade is Professor of Physical Geography at the Department of Geography and Regional Research.

Research Areas: Geomorphology, Natural Hazards and Risks, Human Impact, Global Change

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Nils R. Güttler

Nils Güttler is Assistant Professor for the History of Science at the Department of History.

Research Areas: History of Environmental Sciences, Natural History, Infrastructures, Media History, History of Ideas

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Thilo Hofmann

Thilo Hofmann is Professor of Environmental Geosciences at the Department of Environmental Geosciences.

Research Areas: Pollution Dynamics, Environmental Nanotechnology, Remediation of Pollutants, Aquatic Geochemistry

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Sebastian P. Klinger

Sebastian P. Klinger is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of German Studies.

Research Areas: Theories of Habitability, Literature and Media in the Anthropocene, History of the Environmental Sciences

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Christian Köberl

Christian Köberl is Professor Emeritus of Geosciences at the Department of Lithospheric Research.

Research Areas: Impact Research, Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Planetary Geology, Meteorites

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Franziska Müller

Franziska Müller is Professor for International Development at the Department of Development Studies.

Research Areas: Ecological Collapse and Political Ecology, Energy Transition and Energy Justice, Green Colonialism, Green Finance, Southern Africa, Transformation Conflicts

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Alexis Rider

Alexis Rider is Assistant Professor for the Historical Dimensions of the Anthropocene at the Department of Economic and Social History.

Research Areas: Environmental History, History of Science, Deep Time, Materiality, Temporality, Aesthetics

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Patrick Sakdapolrak

Patrick Sakdapolrak is Professor of Population Geography and Demography at the Department of Geography and Regional Research.

Research Areas: Migration, Displacement, Translocality, Human-Environmental Relations, Climate Change, South-East Asia and East Africa

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Anna Seidel

Anna Seidel is Assistant Professor for West Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the Department of Slavonic Studies.

Research Areas: West Slavic Literatures and Cultures (Polish, Czech, Slovak), Energy Humanities, Crude Cultures, Resource Aesthetics, Gender/Fossil Fuel Entanglements

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Peter Schweitzer

Peter Schweitzer is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

Research Areas: Anthropology, Arctic, Climate Change, Infrastructure, Human-Environment Interactions

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Vera Thomann

Vera Thomann is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of German Studies.

Research Areas: German Literature, Literary Theory, Poetics of Knowledge, Diagrammatics

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Alice B. M. Vadrot

Alice Vadrot is Professor for International Relations and the Environment at the Department of Political Science.

Research Areas: Social Sciences, Value Systems, Marine Biodiversity, Monitoring Practices, Conservation Policies

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Associated Researchers

Isabel Kranz

Isabel Kranz is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Research Areas: Literary and Cultural Plant Studies, Poetics, Rhetoric, Media, More-than-human Agency, Translation

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Franz Mauelshagen

Franz Mauelshagen is Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Bielefeld.

Research Areas: Global History of Climate Change, Anthropocene, Great Acceleration, Planetary Politics and Transformations

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Ronald Pöppl

Ronald Pöppl is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, BOKU University Vienna.

Research Areas: Connectivity, Geomorphology, Human Impact, Human-Environment Interactions

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Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Benjamin Robinson is Assistant Professor of German at the College of Arts & Sciences, New York University (NYU).

Research Areas: Literature and Political Theory, Political Theater, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene, Justice and Care Ethics

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Carmen Sippl

Carmen Sippl is Head of Centre Futures Literacy at the University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria.

Research Areas: Transformative Learning, Education for Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship Education

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Verena Winiwarter

Verena Winiwarter is Full Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Research Areas: History, Archaeology, Environmental History and Research, Historical Regional Studies, Human Ecology

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Visiting Scholars

Hannes Bergthaller

Hannes Bergthaller is Professor at the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University, visiting in January 2024.

Research Areas: Anthropocene, Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Foodscapes, Neo-Cybernetics

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Ángela López García

Ángela López García is a PhD Student, visiting from June – September 2023.

Research Areas: Ecofeminism, North American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, U.S. Green Movement

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Egidijus Mardosas

Egidijus Mardosas is Post-Doctoral Researcher, visiting from 15 May – 13 June 2023.

Research Areas: Anthropocene-Capitalocene Debate, Metabolic Rift, Marxism, Ecology

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Elisa Mazzocato

Elisa Mazzocato is Erasmus exchange student, visiting from April – June 2023.

Research Areas: Literary Criticism, Ecocriticism, Modern German Literature, Anthropocene Literature

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Bronislaw Szerszinsky

Bronislaw Szerszinsky is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Lancaster University, visiting as Guest Researcher in 2019.

Research Areas: Sociology, Technological Innovation, Environment and Culture

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Giulia Simeoni

Giulia Simeoni is a PhD Student, visiting in June 2023.

Research Areas: Ecocriticism, Contemporary Italian Literature, Anthropocene Literature, Catastrophe Literature

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Olga A. Smith

Olga Smith is an art historian, specialising in contemporary art. She visited from 2021 – 2022 as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.

Research Areas: Art History, Nature, Nonhuman, Landscape, Environmental Emergencies

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Hannah Spector

Hannah Spector is Associate Professor at Penn State at Harrisburg, visiting from May – June 2023.

Research Areas: Curriculum Studies, Education, Anthropocene, Hannah Arendt

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Olga Timurgalieva

Olga Timurgalieva is PhD Candidate at City University of Hong Kong, visiting from February – September 2024.

Research Areas: Yeast Art, Ecocriticism, Bioart, Art & Science, Microbes in Art

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Johan Adam Warodell

Johan A. Warodell is a Research Fellow at the Department of German Studies, visiting in the winter term 2026/27.

Research Areas: Literary Modernism, Visual Art, Environmental Humanities, Biodiversity in Fiction, Quantitative Animal Studies

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Christopher Williams-Wynn

Christopher Williams-Wynn is an art historian based in the Department of German Studies, visiting 2027 – 2029 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.

Research Areas: Modern and Contemporary Art, Art and Technology, Cultural Theory, Environmental Humanities

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Staff

Eva Spiegelhofer

Eva Spiegelhofer is the administrative coordinator of the Vienna Anthropocene Network.

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Community

Eva Horn

Michael Wagreich

Ulrich Brand

Anna Echterhölter

Ulrike Felt

Thomas Glade

Nils R. Güttler

Thilo Hofmann

Sebastian P. Klinger

Christian Köberl

Franziska Müller

Alexis Rider

Patrick Sakdapolrak

Anna Seidel

Peter Schweitzer

Vera Thomann

Alice B. M. Vadrot

Isabel Kranz

Franz Mauelshagen

Ronald Pöppl

Benjamin Lewis Robinson

Carmen Sippl

Verena Winiwarter

Hannes Bergthaller

Ángela López García

Egidijus Mardosas

Elisa Mazzocato

Bronislaw Szerszinsky

Giulia Simeoni

Olga A. Smith

Hannah Spector

Olga Timurgalieva

Johan Adam Warodell

Christopher Williams-Wynn

Eva Spiegelhofer

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