Gerald M. Schneeweiss
Study & Career
Study & Career
2015– Associate Professor at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Austria
03/2012–08/2012 paternal leave
2010–2015 Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Austria
2010 Senior post-doc at the Institute of Systematic Botany and Mycology, Ludwig-Maximilans-University, Munich, Germany (with Prof. Susanne Renner)
2009–2010 Senior post-doc at the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), České Budějovice, Czech Republic (with Dr. Jiří Macas)
2007 Habilitation (venia docendi) for botany / evolution at the University of Vienna, Austria
2003 Ph.D. Thesis "Phylogeny and evolution of the holoparasitic Orobanche (Orobanchaceae)" at the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria (supervised by Tod F. Stuessy)
2001–2009 Assistant professor (half time) at the Department of Biogeography, University of Vienna, Austria
1999 M.Sc. thesis "Fine-scale distribution, ecology and phytosociology of relictic vascular plant taxa in the Niedere Tauern east of Sölkpass (Austria, Steiermark) with special emphasis on the Rottenmanner and Triebener Tauern and the Seckauer Alps" at the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, Austria (supervised by Harald Niklfeld)
1992–1999 Study of biology and botany at the University of Vienna, Austria
Community services
Associate editor for Alpine Botany
Associate Editor for Section "Plant Systematics and Evolution" for Frontiers in Plant Sciences
Chief Editor for Neilreichia
Reviewer for more than 30 journals (e.g., American Journal of Botany, Annals of Botany, Journal of Biogeography, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Systematic Biology, Taxon) and for international grant agencies from Europe and the U.S.
Grant support
2017– Evolution in high mountain systems (Phyteuma, Campanulaceae) (FWF: €347K)
2016– Areas of endemism in the high-mountain flora of Iran (FWF: €170K)
2011–2012 Morphological differentiation of the sympatric di-, tetra- and hexaploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus s. l. (KIÖS-ÖAW: € 6K)
2008–2012 Origin and maintenance of intrapopulation cytotype mixture (FWF: € 362K)
2006–2010 Plastid genome evolution in a group of non-photosynthetic angiosperms (FWF: € 235K)
2006–2008 Phylogeny of the European endemic Phyteuma (KIÖS-ÖAW: € 4.5K)