My main workplace has changed over the years from the laboratory bench to the desk. However, it is still exciting to examine novel data with my team members. Our research concentrates on two different topics. One is the fascinating diverse functions of regulatory peptides. The other is the alterations of the energy metabolism in cancer cells.

In my Studio I work on projects and I also prepare for my lectures at the Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

I work as a user interface developer in Opera’s Desktop team. In that role, I can dive directly into the browser’s code base and enhance the product for our users. In addition, I am heading the development of our testing procedures to improve our user-centered design methods and processes. Working in an international and diverse environment is very fruitful and rewarding, as is to create a product for millions of users that hopefully makes life easier for them!

I work as a social researcher in the fields of housing, sports and the labour market. My fields of work range from basic research, project management of labour market projects to social planning in the construction of new buildings and refurbishment of housing as well as evaluation of sports facilities and leisure infrastructure. I prefer to cooperate with an interdisciplinary team of architects, landscape planners, technicians and jurists. We regularly meet in workshops. I gain energy and creativity from my garden.

The main focus of my work is to create living spaces on various scales – from a private garden up to a part of the city – people can identify with. Space, identity and communication are part of my daily work. Space is the object of my work, communication is my tool and identity the aim. Since living spaces are the objects I am dealing with, I have several workplaces: private gardens, urban public spaces, classrooms, bars, restaurants, the great outdoors and, of course, my office. My Views from Work are intentionally offbeat to facilitate obtaining non-conventional results far from the norm.

During several years’ work as a computer scientist I became increasingly interested in effective communication and cooperative development. 6 years ago I founded our company specialised in economic and innovation systems, working for the public and the private sector. My personal areas of interest are strategy and process design, diversity management and conflict resolution. Naturally, developing and facilitating meetings is part of my work. Rooms, table arrangements and materials vary in many respects according to the aims and culture of each specific target group. Trying to understand these requirements means to meet people, to listen and to ask effective questions – at different places, sometimes even late at night ...

My lab bench is my favourite workplace. It is often untidy and crammed with tubes, reagent bottles and paper notes. I probably need this for a successful workflow. However, at the end of the day everything is clean and tidy again, ready for the next day full of experiments. The other photo shows my desk with the laptop, lots of papers and to-do lists. The neighbouring desk is occupied by one of my colleagues. Interaction with other people from the lab and the institute is crucial to our work, since science is never a one-man/woman show.

Hello, how is your city doing? Urban psychology regards cities as living beings which, like people, have many different features and characteristics. The basic attitude of urban psychology is that the future of a city can only be worked out in a joint process. Because all the people together – with their strengths and weaknesses, hopes and fears, their personal past and future – leave their mark on the nature of a city and influence the awareness of life in it. So I have set myself a great task by “inventing” this profession: I want to support cities, towns and municipalities in finding a good path to the future.

My research group and my workplace are located in Vienna at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna. Within our Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise COSS we work on the development of new methods of protein production for structural and functional analysis. I enjoy the close collaboration and international research climate here in Vienna, especially here at the Campus Vienna Biocenter and with our COSS project partners.

I am originally from Portugal and for family carrier reasons I am always on the move. Since I graduated from university in Lisbon I have worked in France, England, Portugal and I am currently in Austria. I am a senior researcher at the Molecular Plant Biotechnology group at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. My research focus lies in the development of plant-based expression systems that allow the rapid generation of highly efficient recombinant therapeutic proteins.