Mission Statement

This doctoral programme intends to provide an internationally competitive scientific training of doctoral students in innovative pharmaceutical, nutritional and sport research.

The school wants to attract motivated students and to guide them towards scientific excellence and independence in a truly unique and dynamic multi-as well as interdisciplinary environment to finally become well-educated, open-minded and responsible graduates. The cohorts trained and supported by the VDS PhaNuSpo are part of the vibrant research environment at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Sport Science and University Sports of the University of Vienna.

Your Benefits

  • Co-supervision and mentoring from at least two experts in your field.
  • Low hierarchies and an open door policy.
  • Interdisciplinary exchange in the form of joint courses, seminars, retreats and social events.
  • Additional financial support e.g. in the form of completion or mobility grants.
  • A strong student voice.
  • Dedicated administrative support.

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 News

PhD Corner
 

If you are a PhD or a master student interested in protein science and NMR, check out this new practicum by our PI Julien Orts!

Registration deadline: 13.1.2025

Travel report
 

Our PhD student Kevin Bischof (Nutritional Sciences) attended the 4th Junior Symposium of the Scientific Council of the DGSP in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany and ÖSG Congress in Innsbruck, Austria. ...

Calls & Opportunities
 

The Department of Sports Medicine, Performance Physiology and Prevention (Head: Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Scharhag) offers you the opportunity to research, to teach in an internationally networked team...

Grants
 

The seed grants should be used for the preparation of a major funding application and the project must be relevant to the field of Data Science.

Application deadline: 31 October 2024

PhD Corner
 

If you want to gain insights into policymaking process and learn how to communicate scientific findings to policymakers, join the first Univie Science for Policy Hackathon!

Deadline: 11 November 2024

Media
 

In this episode, we talk with Catharina Candussi, a PhD student in Public Health Nutrition, about her research on plant-based diets and their impact on health. With 5% of Europeans identifying as...

Latest publications


Staufer, Theresa ; Kopatz, Verena ; Pradel, Alice et al. / Biodistribution of nanoplastics in mice : advancing analytical techniques using metal-doped plastics. In: Communications Biology. 2025 ; Vol. 8, No. 1.

Benčurová, Katarína ; Balber, Theresa ; Weissenböck, Victoria et al. / Preclinical evaluation of the potential PARP-imaging probe [carbonyl-11C]DPQ. In: EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry. 2025 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 1.

Stock, Valentina ; Hofer, Rebecca ; Lochmann, Franziska et al. / Tolterodine is a novel candidate for assessing CYP3A4 activity through metabolic volatiles to predict drug responses. In: Scientific Reports. 2025 ; Vol. 15, No. 1. pp. 2462.

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