Katharina Keiblinger

Career

• 2025 Deputy Head of the Institute of Soil Research (BOKU University)
• 2025 Professor (Soil Microbiology) (BOKU University)
• 2024 - 2024 Visiting Lecturer (Senior Researcher), Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (Universidad Austral de Chile)
• 2019 - 2020 Head of Laboratory Institute of Soil Research (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna)
• 2018 Habilitation (Venia Docendi) in Geoecology (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna)
• 2015 - 2015 University Assistant (Visiting Researcher) Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Division of Belowground Ecosystem Group (University of British Columbia)
• 2011 - 2017 University Assistant (Junior Researcher) (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna)
• 2012 - 2012 University Assistant (Visiting Researcher) Institute of Microbiology, Division of Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald)
• 2008 - 2011 Doctoral Programme in Natural Resources and Life Sciences (specialisation in Soil Microbiology, Metaproteomics and Ecological Stoichiometry) (BOKU)
• 2010 - 2010 Forschungsaufenthalt (Doktoratsforschung) Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology (University of Zurich)
• 2008 - 2010 Project Research Assistant Department of Forest Ecology (Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BWF))
• 2002 - 2008 Diploma Programme in Technical Chemistry (Technical University Vienna (TU Wien))

Awards

• Year: 2019 Awards: AGRANA Förderungspreis für Wissenschaft und Forscuhng
• Year: 2017 Awards: ASEAN European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET) Mobility grant
• Year: 2015 Awards: FEMS Research Grant
• Year: 2013 Awards: Best Paper Award of the jubilee fund of the city of Vienna for the BOKU
• Year: 2013 Awards: Klaus Fischer Innovation-Grant for Technology and Environment 2012
• Year: 2013 Awards: Walter Kubiena Research Prize of the Austrian Society of Soil Science (ÖBG)
• Year: 2012 Awards: Exchange Grant of the European Science Foundation “Linking soil microbial community structure and function with respiration of a soil warming field experiment”
• Year: 2012 Awards: ÖGMBT Dissertationspreis, gesponsert von der Firma BIOMIN
• Year: 2011 Awards: FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant
• Year: 2011 Awards: Prof. Anton Kurir Stiftungspreis
• Year: 2010 Awards: DOC-fFORTE Stipendium
• Year: 2010 Awards: Exchange Grant of the European Science Foundation “Linking respiration and nutrient dynamics with proteome data of litter decomposition exposed to climatic stress“