WU awards bonuses to its researchers for publications in internationally renowned journals and other outstanding academic achievements.

Outstanding Research Achievements
Award Winners:

Wegner Maus, V., Giljum, S., da Silva, D., &
Gutschlhofer, J. et al. (2022).
An update on global mining land use.
Scientific data, 9(433), 1–11.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01547-4
Stefan Giljum
Mirko Lieber
Sebastian Luckeneder
Victor Wegner Maus

Jasansky, S., Lieber, M., Giljum, S., & Maus, V. (2023).
An open database on global coal
and metal mine production.
Scientific data, 10(1), [52].
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01965-y
Stefan Giljum
Simon Jasansky
Mirko Lieber
Victor Wegner Maus

Zell-Ziegler, C., Thema, J., Best, B., &
Wiese, F. et al. (2021).
Enough? The role of sufficiency
in European energy and climate plans.
Energy Policy, 157, [112483].
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112483
Sigrid Stagl

Dalstein, F., & Naqvi, S. A. A. (2022).
21st Century water withdrawal decoupling:
A pathway to a more water-wise world?
Water Resources and Economics, 38.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2022.100197
Syed Ali Asjad Naqvi

Sun, Z., Behrens, P., Tukker, A., &
Bruckner, M. et al. (2022).
Global Human Consumption Threatens
Key Biodiversity Areas.
Environmental Science and Technology.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c00506
Martin Bruckner

Giljum, S., Maus, V., Kuschnig, N., &
Luckeneder, S. et al. (2022).
A pantropical assessment of deforestation
caused by industrial mining.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of
the United States of America, 119(38), [e2118273119].
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118273119
Nikolas Kuschnig
Sebastian Luckeneder
Victor Wegner Maus
Stefan Giljum

Acquisition of Third-Party Funding
Award Winners:

The many layers of natural resource extraction:
Analysing spillover effects and spatial impacts
Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische
Nationalbank (OeNB)
Stefan Giljum
Nikolas Kuschnig
Sebastian Luckeneder
Lukas Vashold
Verena Konrad
Maximilian Heinze

ULTIMOB – Ultimative Integrierte Mobilitätslösungen
FFG – Österr. Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH
Sigrid Stagl

Biodiversity and trade: mitigating the impacts
of non-food biomass global supply chains – BAMBOO
EU/Horizon 2021
Martin Bruckner