Environmental Psychology Vienna

At ANSES in Paris, Ellise Suffill presented her #ZeroPM work on integrating social data into the Essential Use Concept, followed by a roundtable on whether the consumer is always right and how to enable sustainable design. ♻️
#Chemicals #Pollution #Sustainability

Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the group last year as a research assistant, where she supports a project on the risk perception of #microplastics. She is also writing her master’s thesis with the group, looking at how #eco-anxiety and different #pro-environmental behaviours are related to each other. 🏡

Tatiana Shevel recently joined the Environmental Psychology Group as a #PhD student. In her research, she aims to bridge #sustainability science and #environmentalpsychology through the #inner_transformation approach. 🌱

New year, new recap! 🗓️

2025 was a pretty busy year for us and our EnvPsy Group at @univie.ac.at has grown quite significantly. We hope to keep this momentum going in 2026 and are already excited to share all the new projects & papers we have been working on!

Seeing everyone’s Spotify Wrapped last year motivated us to put together our own playlist to send off 2025 and usher in 2026! (every member from our lab got to submit one song). 🎶
So, if you ever have the time and are in the mood to discover some new music, feel free to check out our playlist!

🎵 Music can bring us together and motivate us to make a change. That’s why you should check out our Environmental Tunes 2025 Playlist for a collection of songs about the environment and/or protecting it!

🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/3sM...

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 Environmental Psychology Vienna 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 🤓).

The movie was followed by a panel discussion with scientists and local politicians about emotions in the #ClimateCrisis and opportunities for participation in #ClimateProtection in Vienna; with Christina (on the left) providing valuable insights from the field of #EnvironmentalPsychology.

⛰️ 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.

🎥 You can watch a recording of the RESONATE DACH-Region Spotlight Series through the following link: resonate-horizon.eu/nature-based...

📸 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.

⛰️ 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.

🛜 Project Spotlight: GOLIAT

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

⌛ Duration: 2022–2027

🌐 For more information visit: projectgoliat.eu

@helenezillig.bsky.social 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. 🎓

Great news that this paper led by the fabulous @todorova.bsky.social is out now, a collaboration between the @scanunit.bsky.social and @envpsyvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. 👏 🎉 #EnvironmentalPsychology

Today Mathew White from @envpsyvienna.bsky.social talks about work from @resonatenbt.bsky.social, and Jürgen Preiss from @wien.gv.at talks about #ClimateChange #Adaptation measures

@helenezillig.bsky.social presents her research at the #ENLIGHTConference2025!

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. 🌃

🏙️ 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: stadtpsychologie.at/ameisen-als-...

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. 💚

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: www.eventbrite.es/e/nature-bas...

@helenezillig.bsky.social 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. 💡

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 the European chemical strategy.

♻️ Project Spotlight: ZeroPM

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

⌛ Duration: 2021–2026

🌐 For more information visit: 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. 🎓