Kuni Saffana recently joined the team as a PhD student, having received funding by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency (LPDP) Scholarship.

Her research will aim to advance the use of #psychometrics in #environmentalpsychology in order to promote conscious and responsible consumption

Happy Holidays from the @envpsyvienna Lab!
See you again in the new year. 🎄🎆

Addi Wala works both in #urban #research and in applied participatory #urbandevelopment here in Vienna. He is our organisational assistant for the RESONATE project, as well as our communications and social media manager (meaning he had to write this in third person about himself 🤓).

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11th December)! #MountainsMatter

🌁 Earlier this month Christina Barz took part in a panel discussion after the new documentary by Harry Putz about melting glaciers (“Requiem in Weiß”) was shown at Sargfabrik. The movie was followed by a panel discussion; with Christina (on the left) providing valuable insights from the field of #EnvironmentalPsychology. Thank everyone who attended for the great evening and the stimulating discussion.

⛰️ Happy International Mountain Day (11 December)!

#MountainsMatter – they are the world’s water towers and global action is needed to preserve #glaciers and #mountains for future generations.

📸 The EnvPsy RESONATE Team recently visited the Gastein Healing Gallery, which is built into an old geothermal ore mining tunnel. The occasion: The RESONATE Spotlight Series, a symposium bringing together Nature-Therapy experts and enthusiasts from across the DACH-Region.

🛜 Project Spotlight: GOLIAT

The aims of #GOLIAT (5G expOsure, causaL effects, and rIsk perception through citizen engAgemenT) are to monitor #radiofrequency #electromagnetic fields exposure, particularly from #5G, provide insights into its potential #health effects, and understand how exposures and risks are perceived and best communicated. 📳

🏛️ Uni Vienna Team: Nina Vaupotič, Valeria Vitale, & Mathew White

⌛ Duration: 2022–2027

🌐 For more information visit: https://projectgoliat.eu/

When graduating high school, opportunities are vast and it’s not easy to choose!

@HeleneZillig visited the European School in Munich last month to answer questions and help students discover whether psychology is something they’re interested in—be it for their education, profession, or general future. 🎓

Hélène Zillig presents her research at the #ENLIGHTConference 2025!

She merged over 1,400 nighttime visits to #BlueSpaces with satellite data measuring Artificial Light at Night (#ALAN) to explore how the brightness of a location relates to perceived #safety and #wellbeing. 🌃

Meet our young #ant colony! 🐜

Named after the 10 other Work Packages (WPs) in the #RESONATE Project, WP11 does not provide us with data on nature-based therapies but can nonetheless teach us what is means to work together and care for our surrounding #environment. 💚

🏙️ If you are interested in how ants can be used as an inspiration for city planning and urban development, check out our member Addi Wala’s STADTpsychologie Blog (German) on the topic: https://stadtpsychologie.at/ameisen-als-soziale-wesen-in-der-stadtplanung-ein-stadtpsychologischer-versuch-von-addi-wala/

Ester Hernández is a researcher at IICG-URJC in Spain. With a background in #Biology and #Conservation Ecology, her doctoral work explores the social perception of arid ecosystems. 🌵

We are happy to have Ester visit our lab and help her strengthen the bridge between #Ecology and #Psychology! 🌉

Bio-psycho-social #Resilience: Can #Nature Strengthen Us?
The short answer: Yes! ✅

The long answer? That’s where research comes in – as Valentina Hampejs explained in her recent talk at the Planetarium in Vienna as part of the VHS-Science Program. 🧪

Anja Heske re-joined the team in March as a #PhD student. In her dissertation, she will explore how nature might benefit close personal relationships, working closely with the RESONATE project to investigate how natural environments might not only build individual, but also relational #resilience. 🌱

Symposium on Nature-based Therapy in the DACH region.

More information and Sign-up: https://www.eventbrite.es/e/nature-based-therapy-in-the-dach-region-tickets-1775760941779

@HeleneZillig is a student assistant, supporting the #ZeroPM project and helping classes on #EnvironmentalPsychology run smoothly for both students and lecturers. In her Master’s Thesis, she investigates how people’s #nighttime experience of #BlueSpaces is impacted by artificial light. 💡

♻️ Project Spotlight: ZeroPM

The goal of the pathfinding Horizon Europe #ZeroPM project is to protect our water from contamination with #persistent #mobile substances. An evidence-based multilevel framework including #prevention, #prioritization and #removal approaches is used to lead chemical strategy.

🏛️ Uni Vienna Team: Sabine Pahl, Mathew White & Ellise Suffill, with support from Louisa Richter and Hélène Zillig.

⌛ Duration: 2021–2026

🌐 For more information visit: https://zeropm.eu/

Ellise joined the Vienna EnvPsy Team in November 2021 as a post-doc and part of the #ZeroPM project. ♻️

Since then, she has been involved at the intersection between academia and policymaking and working towards reducing the consumption and pollution of persistent and mobile chemicals across the EU.

Cornelia Ehmayer’s university course on #urbanpsychology started into the next semester! 🏙️

Her company #STADTpsychologie conducts #participatory #urbandevelopment in Vienna and her integration of practical application, science, and teaching won her the University of Vienna’s Teaching Award 2024. 🎓

🌐 More information on STADTpsychologie and Cornelia Ehmayer’s methodology (the “Activating City Diagnosis“) can be found on: www.stadtpsychologie.at

Hi, I'm Neline, and over the past few months I've had the opportunity to complete an internship with the EnvPsy group at the University of Vienna. 💼

My main takeaway: Research does not have to be abstract. It can have real impact when it comes to understanding nature as a resource for health. 🧠 🌱

You can read my full experience report here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/envpsyvienna_resilience-interdisciplinary-nature-activity-7383741251637915649-rn57

Our poster from the @univienna orientation event for new students interested in learning about the different teams and labs at the Faculty of #Psychology. 🎓
Thank you @HeleneZillig for putting this together!

We wish everyone starting their academic journey (or at least their next academic year) lots of success and resilience! We also hope you don’t forget (admits all the studying) to go outside and spend some time in #nature. 😉🌳

Sapere aude – Dare to know!