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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Calls & Opportunities
 

Join the organising team to plan and/or moderate an academically and socially innovative, exciting and powerful retreat!

Your efforts will be rewarded with ECTS.

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Calls & Opportunities
 

Das Förderungsstipendium (nach StudFG SS 2024) wird für die Durchführung einer noch nicht abgeschlossenen wissenschaftlichen Arbeit vergeben und soll den Studierenden durch einen einmaligen Geldbetrag...

Event
 

In Kooperation zwischen dem Institut für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Wien sowie der Stadt Wien eröffnet die diesjährige Ringvorlesung unterschiedliche Perspektiven zum Thema „Künstliche...

Calls & Opportunities
 

The Institut français d'Autriche, in collaboration with the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, offers early-stage researcher stays in France of up to 6 months, and the OeAD offers stays...

Video
 

Peter Raidl, a PhD student in Sport Science, explains in this short video one of his first experiments conducted to investigate the interaction of stress with the hormonal responses to resistance...

Event
 

Could your research data management use some support? Do you like snacks?

The data stewards from CeMESS and the Faculty of Life Sciences are hosting a Research Data Management Course just for...

Latest publications


Bragagna, Laura ; Polak, Christina ; Schütz, Lisa et al. / DNA damage and oxidative stress biomarkers in healthy male volunteers after a repeated bolus and continuous glucose infusion. Abstracts of the 52nd EEMGS & 15th ICAW Meeting: 52nd European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS) & 15th International Comet Assay Workshops (ICAW) meeting. editor / Marko Geric ; Goran Gajski. Vol. 75 2025. pp. 117-117

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2 Faculties and 3 doctoral programmes
45 PIs/Professors