Wonderful news! During this year's Annual Meeting of the Austrian Soil Science Society in December in Innsbruck, Iris Karbon received the Walter Kubiena Award for her Master thesis on 'Biological Nitrification Inhibitors and their Off-target Effects on the Soil Microbial Community' that she conducted within the PlayNICE project at the Centre for Microbiology within the Divisions of TER and DOME. We are very happy for Iris and proud that she got such a nice recognition for h

This year, eleven scientists from the University of Vienna and 54 in Austria from all research areas are included in the list of the world’s most cited researchers. CeMESS is honoured to have eight of its researchers featured on this list, almost one third of the 26 Professors and Junior Group Leaders (see here more) . And I was one of them :-) How incredible is this! This came very surprising, and I am very honored to be on this list, and I want to say a big thank you to all

In October 2025, we had the first (of hopefully many) collaborative soil root and soil sampling campaign at the AmazonFACE site with researchers from the UNICAMP, INPA, TUM and Uni Vienna - the steadily growing plant-soil interactions team! We started with a kick-off seminar day at INPA, where we learned a lot about the work that has been done, samples that had been collected and planned a lot of future work! Thanks everyone for all the awesome presentations! From left to ri