About Us
The research platform PLENTY emerged from the Environmental Research Network (ERN): The ERN steering committee members Gerhard Herndl (Faculty of Life Sciences), Thilo Hofmann (Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science) and Ulrike Felt (Faculty of Social Sciences) developed the idea to explore the topic of plastics together in the course of the network's activities. PLENTY has been set up for three years (starting in May 2018) by the Rectorate of the University of Vienna.
Research Lead
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thilo Hofmann
Principal Investigator
Department of Environmental Geosciences
Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
University of Vienna
Mail: thilo.hofmann@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-53320
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Herndl
Principal Investigator
Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography
Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Vienna
Mail: gerhard.herndl@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-76431
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt
Principal Investigator
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Faculty of Sociology
University of Vienna
Mail: ulrike.felt@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-49611
Univ.-Prof. Dipl. Psych. Sabine Pahl
Principal Investigator
Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
Faculty of Psychology
University of Vienna
Mail: sabine.pahl@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-47150
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernadett Weinzierl
Principal Investigator
Department of Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics
Faculty of Physics
University of Vienna
Mail: bernadett.weinzierl@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-73412
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Stohl
Principal Investigator
Department of Meterology and Geophysics
Faculty of Earth Science, Geography and Astronomy
University of Vienna
Mail: andreas.stohl@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-53730
Other participating researchers
Artemis Papadaki Anastasopoulou
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University of Vienna
Laura Bomm
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University of Vienna
Mail: laura.bomm@univie.ac.at
Leonie Fian
Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
University of Vienna
Mail: leonie.fian@univie.ac.at
Dr. Maximilian Fochler
Department of Science and Technology Studies
University of Vienna
Charlotte Henkel
Department of Environmental Geosciences
University of Vienna
Mail: charlotte.henkel@univie.ac.at
Dr. Thorsten Hüffer
Department of Environmental Geosciences
University of Vienna
Ruoting Peng
Department of Environmental Geosciences
University of Vienna
Anya Sherman
Department of Environmental Geosciences
University of Vienna
Mili Shah
Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
University of Vienna
Mail: mili.shah@univie.ac.at
Dr. Michael Zumstein
Department of Environmental Geoscience
University of Vienna
Former researchers
Dr. Maria Pinto
previously Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology