580002 PhaNuSpo Scientific Lecture Series "Meet the Expert"

Aim and format

The VDS PhaNuSpo aims to support its doctoral students in strengthening interdisciplinary exchange and networking by offering lectures with invited international researchers from academia and industry from in the fields of pharmaceutical, nutritional and sport sciences.

Each lecture consists of a 'Meet the Expert Roundtable', followed by a talk. During the roundtables, PhD candidates have the opportunity to discuss topics beyond research, such as career development. Afterwards, the invited speaker will give a talk on his:her area of research.

Roundtables are reserved for PhaNuSpo PhD candidates, while talks are open to the public.

Assessment and requirements: Attendance of i) lectures and ii) at least two Meet the Expert roundtables.

Credits: 1.00 ECTS | Language: English | Contact: Ina Bergheim

Winter semester 2025/26

The lectures take place from 16:45-17:45 in the HS-4 at the UZAII, 1090 Vienna.

The 'Meet the Expert roundtables' from 15:30-16:15 in the seminar room 2E560 at the UZAII. The toundtable assignments have been agreed in the online kick-off class.

  • 07.10.2025: Online, 10:00 - 10:45, Kick-off Class
  • 15.10.2025: Jean-Luc Coll, PhD
    University of Grenoble Alpes, France
    • Lecture: Nanotheranostic approaches: photons can help for diagnostics and therapy of cancer.
  • 22.10.2025: Sophie Leclercq, PhD
    Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
    • Lecture: Involvement of the gut microbiota in the development of alcohol use disorder: from preclinical experiments to clinical perspectives.
  • 05.11.2025: Prof. Olivier Seynnes 
    Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway
    • Lecture: Oral contraceptives and muscular adaptations to resistance training.
  • 19.11.2025: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Tilg
    Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
    • Lecture: The many causes of inflammation in MASLD.
  • 03.12.2025: Assoc. Prof. Michael Bergmann, MD 
    Medical University of Vienna, Austria
    • 14:45-15:30 - Meet the Expert roundtable
    • 15:45-16:45 - Lecture: Understanding and Modulation of the Tumor-Microenvironment in Colorectal Cancer.
  • 07.01.2026: Prof. Dr. habil. Annegret Mündermann, PhD 
    Schulthess Klinik, Zürich, Switzerland
    • Lecture: Ground to Orbit: In Vivo Cartilage Mechanosensitivity in Health, Disease and Space.

Previous editions of the lecture series

Summer semester 2025

  • 10.03.2025: Digital Kickoff Class
  • 26.03.2025: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Laura König, "Improving weight-related behaviours through digital technology: Potential and pitfalls."
    Faculty of Life Sciences: University of Vienna, Austria.
  • 02.04.2025: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Dodt,  "3D imaging of cleared animal or human tissue: A challenge for chemistry."
    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria.
  • 07.05.2025: Prof. Dr. Veit Senner, "Sports. Engineered R&D-trends in the field of sport technology and sport materials."
    TUM School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
  • 14.05.2025: Prof. Dr. André Kleinridders, "Insulin Resistance – The Culprit for Unsuccessful Dietary Interventions?"
    Molekulare und Experimentelle Ernährungsmedizin, University of Potsdam, Germany.
  • 11.06.2025: Prof. Dr. Ilse Jonkers, "An integrated, multi-scale approach to understand the role of mechanical loading in cartilage homeostasis and disease: Bridging from joint to chondrocyte."
    Human Movement Biomechanics Research Group of the Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium.
  • 25.06.2025: Thomas Beyer, PhD, MBA, "Combined PET/CT: From 'un'clear to 'new'clear medicine."
    Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Winter semester 2024/25

  • 01.10.24: Online introductory meeting.
  • 13.11.24: Prof. Dr. Martino V. Franchi, "Muscle plasticity following disuse and exercise countermeasures".
    Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy.
  • 20.11.24: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christa Schleper, "From greenhouse gas production to eukaryogenesis: A journey to the ecological and evolutionary impacts of Archaea".
    Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria.
  • 27.11.24: Prof. Dr. Dr. Sascha Venturelli, "Modulating the replication cycle of human pathogenic viruses through specific food ingredients".
    Department of Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, Germany.
  • 08.01.25: Prof. Dr. Enrico Dall'Ara, "Predicting bone adaptation with multi-scale models"
    University of Sheffield, UK.
  • 15.01.25: Dr. Andreas Liebminger, "Insights into Plasma Fractionation".
    Takeda, Austria.
  • 29.01.25: Prof. Dr. Rosita Gabbianelli, "The epigenetic clocks and the mechanisms underlying their regulation".
    University of Camerino, Italy.

Summer semester 2024

  • 13.03.24: Introductory meeting, 15:30-16:15, online.
  • 10.04.24: Prof. Sander Kersten, PhD "The Regulation of Lipid Metabolism during Fasting"
    Schleifer Family Professor and Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, USA; and Division of Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
  • 24.04.24: Prof. Markus Bastir, PhD "Breathing, running and the evolution of modern human body shape"
    Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)| Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturale (MNCN), Spain
  • 08.05.24: Prof. Janne Avela, PhD "Adaptation of corticospinal excitability to exercise"
    Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
  • 22.05.24: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Bohle "An apple a day, ... new treatment options for food"
    Allergy Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
  • 05.06.24 and 06.06.24: Dr. Johannes Meiser "Plasticity of one-carbon metabolism – from nucleotide synthesis to formate overflow and cancer metastasis"
    Department of Cancer Research, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg.
  • 19.06.24: Prof. Dr. Axel Urhausen "Overtraining - facts and myths"
    Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg.

Winter semester 2023/24

  • 03.10.2023: Kick-off class, online, 08:30 - 09:15
  • 18.10.2023: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Johannes Grillari "Cellular senescence in tissue regeneration"
    Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology (LBI Trauma) at the AUVA Research Center, Austria
  • 08.11.2023*: Prof. Dr. Neil J. Cronin "Applications of AI in Sport and Health", University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  • 22.11.2023: Prof. Dr. Jana Rückert-John "Wandel des Essalltags: Fleischbiografien"
    Sociology of Food and Nutrition, Fulda University of Applied Science Germany
  • 06.12.2023: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Heffeter "Drug development from bench to bedside"
    Center for Cancer Research at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  • 24.01.2024: Prof. Julie Lovegrove, PhD "Dietary Fats and CVD risk- Dispelling the Myths"
    Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, UK
  • 31.01.2024: Prof. M. Francois Hug, PhD "Decoding motor unit activity to understand the control of human movement: recent advances and perspectives"
    Laboratoire Motricité Humaine Expertise Sport Santé (LAMHESS), Université Côte d'Azur, France