Head

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Heinz

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2A424
      T: +43-1-4277-53580
      petra.heinz@univie.ac.at

Technician

Matthias Nagy, BSc MSc

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2A429
      T: +43-1-4277-53581
      matthias.nagy@univie.ac.at

      Research interest: Culturing of living foraminifera,
      Lessepsian migration and the diversity of the Mediterranean Sea,
      Faunal analysis (arctic deep sea)       

Scientists

PhD Christopher Berndt

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2A428
      T: +43-1-4277-53582
      christopher.berndt@univie.ac.at

      Project: Quantitative morphological adaptation of
      ostracods and foraminifera
      
      

PhD Shirin Fassihi

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2A425
      T: +43-1-4277-53573
      shirin.fassihi@univie.ac.at

      Project: Late Palaeozoic foraminiferal fauna in the Eastern Tethys (Malaysia and
      the adjacent areas) in comparison with the coeval foraminifera from
      the Western Tethys (Iran)
      
      Research interest: Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and
      palaeobiogeographic reconstructions       

Mag. Dr. Erik Wolfgring

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2B385
      T: +43-1-4277-53479
      erik.wolfgring@univie.ac.at

      Project: Cretaceous Austral Climate evolution – a benthic
      perspective (Austrian Science Fund J-4444)
      
      

Doctoral students

Kamila Faizieva, BSc MSc

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2A428
      kamila.faizieva@univie.ac.at

      Topic: Recent benthic foraminifera of Svalbard and adjacent areas

Tina Palme, BSc MSc

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2A423
      tina.palme@univie.ac.at

      Topic: Feeding experiments in recent benthic foraminifera
      

Mostafa Mohamed Sayed, BSc MSc

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      Room: 2B484
      mostafam92@univie.ac.at
      mostafa.sayed92@science.bsu.edu.eg

      PhD Project:
      Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironment of the Eocene successions in Egypt

      Research interests:
      * Eocene benthic foraminifera (Systematics, Biostratigraphy, Paleobiogeography
      and Paleoecology)
      * Eocene nannofossils (Systematics and Biostratigraphy)
      * Eocene ostracods (Systematics, , Biostratigraphy, Paleobiogeography
      and Paleoecology)
      * Paleoclimate and sea level changes
      * Geochemistry
      * Lithostratigraphy
      

Master students

Madeleine Danzinger, BSc

      Topic: Saisional trimorphism of Trochammina inflata
       (From the Tollesbury saltmarsh [UK])

Katarina Pichler, BSc

      Topic: Visean (Early Carboniferous) foramininfera
      in the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone,Iran:
      Their systematic, taxonomic and regional biostrategraphic implications
      regional biostrategraphic implications

Research Fellow

Dipl.-Biol. Dr. Annekatrin Enge

PhD Michael Lintner, BSc MSc

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      michael.lintner@univie.ac.at

      Topic: Feeding experiments of foraminifera with particular focus on the carbon
      and nitrogen uptake as well as impact of heavy metal pollution on recent
      foraminifera

PhD Bianca Lintner

      Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II)
      1090 Vienna
      a1201280@unet.univie.ac.at

      Topic: Recent deep-sea foraminiferal assemblages in the NE Atlantic