Andreas Zitek

Career

• 2023 - 2024 NeuroGraphica Trainer in Training and under Supervision
• 2020 - 2024 Graduated Life and Social Counselor / Psychological Counselor
• 2020 - 2020 Certification as PSI Competence Adviser after J. Kuhl (https://www.psi-austria.at/psi-kompetenzberater/)
• 2018 Scientific Project Coordinator & Lead Researcher at FFoQSI - Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety & Innovation
• 2016 - 2018 Scientific Project Manager at the Department of Chemistry, VIRIS lab and the Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, Institute of Wood Technology and Renewable Materials
• 2016 E-Learning Innovator and Instructional Designer at Education Development Unit, Division of E-Learning and Didactics of New Modes of Teaching and Learning
• 2015 - 2009 Senior Post doc, Project Leader and Key Researcher at the Division of Analytical Chemistry, at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management and at the Institute of Wood Technology and Renewable Materials, BOKU, Vienna
• 2014 Lecturer at the international Summer School "Plant and Fish Biodiversity in Danube Delta" of the USAMV Cluj-Napoca and the CASEE network within the frame of the Erasmus+ Teaching Assigment program
• 2014 - 2023 Lehrauftrag VU 110047 Scientific Working and Writing (in Eng.)
• 2013 Certification as Coach for scientific and professional writing
• 2011 - 2011 Visiting scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitute (WHOI), Fish Ecology Lab (3 months)
• 2010 - 2010 Excursion leader at IPGL (International Training Programmes in Limnology) course to river restoration sites and fish bypasses in Lower Austria
• 2008 - 2009 Indepentent researcher (http://www.ecoscience.at)
• 2007 - 2008 -
• 2006 - 2008 Master of Science (Geographical Information Science & Systems) - MSc (GIS) und European Master in GIScience, Fernstudium an der Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg, UNIGIS "Development of a web-based spatial decision support system (WSDSS) for river restoration: a framework contributing to the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in Austria"
• 2005 - 2006 Basic training course - Compact curriculum "Integrative Poetry- and bibliotherapy"
• 2005 - 2008 -
• 2004 - 2023 -
• 2003 - 2004 Advanced training as "Creative scientific writing coach"
• 1999 - 2006 PhD Thesis "Migration processes of riverine fish: assessment, patterns of downstream migration and restoration"
• 1999 - 2008 Research assistant at the IHG-BOKU, Vienna
• 1996 - 2019 2 co-supervised PhD theses, 36 co-supervised Diploma- amd Master theses, Co-supervision of 2 BAK theses
• 1995 - 1999 Freelancer and technical assistant at the Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna (IHG-BOKU)
• 1989 - 1999 Diploma in Landscape Architecture and Planning

Awards

• Year: 2021 Awards: Schwanninger Preis BOKU für qualitativ hochwertige Lehr- und Lernmaterialien & didakt. sinnv. Einsatz: Virtuelle Exkursionen am Institut für Bodenforschung, gemeinsam mit Prof. Gerzabek & KollegInnen
• Year: 2021 Awards: Nomination f. Ars Docendi 2021, Eintrag in Atlas d. guten Lehre: “Mediated Modelling for Sustainability" und „Virtuelle Exkursionen am Inst. für Bodenforschung“ eingereicht v. Prof. Gerzabek u. Koll.
• Year: 2018 Awards: Two Best Abstract/Best Poster Prices at the 2nd International MoniQa Symposium "Food Fraud Prevention and Effective Food Allergen Management", 7.-8. June, Vienna
• Year: 2015 Awards: Poster price for a significant contribution to the field of plasma spectrochemistry at the EWCPS 2015 in Münster: "Improving the spatial analysis and interpretation of LA-ICP-MS data by the application of GIS methods"
• Year: 2009 Awards: Ferry Starmühlner Preis des Haus des Meeres in Wien für die Präsentation "Fish Migrations in the Austrian Part of the Danube Catchment: A Summary of 20 Years of Re-Establishment of Connectivity and Monitoring", 7th ISE, Chile
• Year: 2008 Awards: 3. Österreichischer Nationalpark Forschungspreis für die Dissertation "Migration processes of riverine fish: assessment, patterns of downstream migration & restoration"
• Year: 2006 Awards: Rigorosum (Dr.nat.techn./PhD) mit Auszeichnung abgeschlossen