Michael Kiehn
Study & Career
Study & Career
2024– Professional Research Fellow, Core Facility Botanical Garden, University of Vienna
2022– Academic Director, Studium Generale, University of Vienna
2006–2024 Head of the Core Facility Botanical Garden, University of Vienna
2006–2010 Head of the Department of Biogeography, University of Vienna
2005 Habilitation (venia docendi) for botany, University of Vienna, Austria, title of an Extraordinary University Professor
2002 Permanent university position as Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria
1991–2005 Research Assistant with special tasks as curator of the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna, Austria
1986– Employed at the University of Vienna (Institute of Botany, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Department of Biogeography). Duties in teaching, administration, and research.
1986 Ph.D. Thesis "Karyologische Untersuchungen und DNA-Messungen an Rubiaceae und ihre Bedeutung für die Systematik dieser Familie (Karyological studies and DNA-measurements on Rubiaceae and their implications for the systematics of this family)" at the Institute of Botany, Austria (supervised by Friedrich Ehrendorfer)
1978–1986 Studies at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern (Germany) and Vienna (Austria)