In our transdisciplinary project “AlpLakeChange”, funded by the Austrian Academy of Science, we examine changing biodiversity in high alpine lakes in the National Park Hohe Tauern, as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change. We analyze the interplay of ecological, geo(morpho)logical and societal factors.

We welcome our new colleague Lisa Windsteiger at the PLUS Department of Economics. Lisa joins our department as an assistant professor (tenure track) after international positions at the London School of Economics and the renowned Ifo Institute. Her research focuses on inequality and redistribution, public attitudes toward economic policies, and people’s fairness perceptions. A native of Upper Austria, she is the first woman in the team of professors at our department. Welcome Lisa!

Selin Aksoy, Hikari Beck and Mirjam Böjte particiated in a EuMIGS winter workshop back in March in ACoruña and produced a podcast with Kyoko Shinozaki.