PhD
Susanne Reier
Project Researcher
Susanne Reiers ORCID record:

Ongoing projects
01.01.2025 – 31.12.2025 „Invasive und heimische
Parasiten im Wandel der Zeit: Eine Spurensuche in jahrhundertealten Fischdärmen“; Awarded to Susanne Reier by Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien; No.: H527410/2024
09.08.2023 – 31.10.2025 „Aus den Archiven zum angewandten Artenschutz: Biodiversitätsmonitoring der Coregonen in Österreich“; Awarded by NextGenerationEU and Biodiversitätsfond des Bunderministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Innovation und Technologie; No.: C321080
09.08.2023 – 31.10.2025 „Aus den Archiven zum angewandten Artenschutz: Biodiversitätsmonitoring der Coregonen in Österreich“; Awarded by NextGenerationEU and Biodiversitätsfond des Bunderministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Innovation und Technologie; No.: C321080
https://coregonus.at/
01.01.2023
– 31.12.2024 Similar life cycle, similar ecology, overlapping ranges: Comparative
phylogeography of three fish parasites in Central Europe; Awarded to Susanne Reier by Network of Biological Systematics Austria (NOBIS); Grant for early-career researchers
Past projects
Dissertation: Elucidating phylogeographic patterns of minnows in complex aquifers of the Dinaric Karst
Pilot study: "DNA barcoding of cercarical-dermatitis-pathogens"
Master thesis: "DNA barcoding of fish-parasitizing Acanthocephala in Austria"
Pilot study: "ABOL Parasitic Worms"
Education
- 2019 - 2024 PhD program in Life Sciences (Biology), University of Vienna; Thesis: Elucidating phylogeographic patterns of minnows in complex aquifers of the Dinaric Karst
- 2014-2018 Master Wildlife Ecology and Wildlife management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Master thesis: The influence of artificial light on bat activity and species richness along an urban gradient
- 2013-2017 Master Zoology, University of Vienna; Master thesis: Morphological and molecular genetic identification of fish-parasitizing Acanthocephala (Koelreuther 1771) in Austria
- 2009-2013 Bachelor Biology, University of Vienna
Professional History
- 05.2024 – dato PostDoc im Biodiversitätsfondprojekt „Aus den Archiven zum angewandten Artenschutz: Biodiversitätsmonitoring der Coregonen in Österreich“; Fischsammlung, 1. Zoologie, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
- 10.2019-04.2024 FWF project I 4131-B25 Dispersal of aquatic organisms in karst landscapes, Fischsammlung, 1. Zoologie, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
- 03.2019-04.2022 Wissenschaftliche und administrative Assistentin, Austrian BioImaging (CMI), Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities, Wien, Österreich
- 03.2019-10.2020 Wissenschaftliche Projektmitarbeiterin, Pilotstudie zum Nachweis von Zerkarien-Dermatitis-Erregern in OÖ mittels DNA-Barcoding, Zentrale Forschungslaboratorien/3. Zoologische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Gefördert durch das Amt der Oberösterreichischen Landesregierung
- 09.2018 –02.2019 FemTech internship: Anwendung und Korrelation verschiedener BioImaging Methoden (Transmissionselektronenmikroskop, CLEM, Konfokalmikroskop) in verschiedenen Projekten; Austrian BioImaging (CMI), Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities, Wien., Gefördert durch Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie (BMK)
- 07.2017-05.2018 Wissenschaftliche Projektmitarbeiterin, FWF Projekt I 26581-B25 “Speciation in rock-dwelling land snails: Understanding the origin of diversity using Montenegrina as a model system", Zentrale Forschungslaboratorien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
- 03.2017-07.2017 Wissenschaftliche Projektmitarbeiterin, Pilotprojekt ABOL Mollusken der Initiative Austrian Barcode of Life (ABOL), Zentrale Forschungslaboratorien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
- 09.2016-03.2017 FemTech internship: Mitarbeit bei den Pilotprojekten der Austrian Barcode Of Life Initiative (ABOL) Parasitische Würmer und Mollusken: DNA Analysen und morphologische Untersuchungen, Zentrale Forschungslaboratorien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien., Gefördert durch Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation und Technologie (BMK)
Awards
- 16.02.2024 Best Oral Presentation Award, VDSEE Symposium 2024, Universität Wien; Kategorie “Ecology”; Titel: Exploring the Impact of Paleohydrology and Underground Migration on the Population Genetic Structure of the minnow Phoxinus lumaireul
- 09.10.2023 Biodiversitätspreis, Tage der Biodiversität, BOKU Wien; Young Researchers Session, Kategorie “PhD Talks“; Titel: Subterranean Voyagers: Investigating Genetic Population Structure and Underground Migration of Phoxinus lumaireul (Schinz, 1840)
- 28.03.2022 Carl-von-Schreibers-Forschungspreis, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien; Jury-Preis, Kategorie „Vortrag“; Titel: Folge den Fischen und du findest die Wege
Grant
- 2024 Hochschuljubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien (No. H527410/2024); Projekttitel: Invasive und heimische Parasiten im Wandel der Zeit: Eine Spurensuche in jahrhundertealten Fischdärmen
- 2022 NOBIS Grant for early-career researchers; Projekttitel: Similar life cycle, similar ecology, overlapping ranges: Comparative phylogeography of three fish parasites in Central Europe
Original articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals
REIER, S., BOGUTSKAYA, N., PALANDA?I?, A., 2022a. Comparative Phylogeography of Phoxinus, Delminichthys, Phoxinellus and Telestes in Dinaric Karst: Which Factors Have Influenced Their Current Distributions? Diversity 14, 526. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14070526
REIER, S., KRUCKENHAUSER, L., SNOJ, A., TRONTELJ, P., PALANDA?I?, A., 2022b. The minnow Phoxinus lumaireul (Leuciscidae) shifts the Adriatic–Black Sea basin divide in the northwestern Dinaric Karst region. Ecohydrology. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2449
DE MATTIA, W., REIER, S. & HARING, E. (2021): Morphological investigation of genital organs and first insights into the phylogeny of the genus Siciliaria Vest, 1867 as a basis for a taxonomic revision (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Clausiliidae). – ZooKeys, 1077: 1-175. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1077.67081.
HELMER, N., BLATTERER, H., HÖRWEG, C., REIER, S., SATTMANN, H., SCHINDELAR, J., SZUCSICH, N.U. & HARING, E. (2021): First Record of Trichobilharzia physellae (Talbot, 1936) in Europe, a Possible Causative Agent of Cercarial Dermatitis. – Pathogens, 10: 1473. doi: 10.3390/pathogens10111473.
JIRSA, F., REIER, S., & SMALES, L. (2021). Helminths of the mallard Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 from Austria, with emphasis on the morphological variability of Polymorphus minutus Goeze, 1782. Journal of Helminthology, 95, e16. doi: 10.1017/S0022149X21000079.
KEUENHOF, K.S., KAVIRAYANI, A., REIER, S., GEYER, S.H., WENINGER, W.J., WALTER, A., 2021. High-Resolution Episcopic Microscopy (HREM) in Multimodal Imaging Approaches. Biomedicines 9, 1918. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9121918
REIER, S., TURYANSKAYA, A., HEIMEL, P., FRISCHAUF, N., MEUSBURGER, D., HEUSER, T., DREXLER, N., JANOVSZKY, Á., STRELI, C., SLEZAK, P., PLOCHBERGER, B., DUNGEL, P., SZABÓ, A., WALTER, A., 2021. Cross-modality imaging of bisphosphonate-treated murine jawbones. Analyst 146, 4683–4699. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0AN02373F
ZOPF, L.M., HEIMEL, P., GEYER, S.H., KAVIRAYANI, A., REIER, S., FRÖHLICH, V., STIGLBAUER-TSCHOLAKOFF, A., CHEN, Z., NICS, L., ZINNANTI, J., DREXLER, W., MITTERHAUSER, M., HELBICH, T., WENINGER, W.J., SLEZAK, P., OBENAUF, A., BÜHLER, K., WALTER, A., 2021. Cross-Modality Imaging of Murine Tumor Vasculature—a Feasibility Study. Mol Imaging Biol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11307-021-01615-y
MASON, K., FEHÉR, Z., BAMBERGER, S., REIER, S., SZEKERES, M., SATTMANN, H., KRUCKENHAUSER, L., DE MATTIA, W., & HARING, E. (2020). New insights into and limitations of the molecular phylogeny in the taxon?rich land snail genus Montenegrina (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clausiliidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 58(3), 662–690. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12413.
REIER, S., HARING, E., BILLINGER, F., BLATTERER, H., DUDA, M., GOROFSKY, C., GRASSER, H.-P., HEINISCH, W., HÖRWEG, C., KRUCKENHAUSER, L., SZUCSICH, N. U., WANKA, A., & SATTMANN, H. (2020). First confirmed record of Trichobilharzia franki Müller & Kimmig, 1994, from Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758) for Austria. Parasitology Research, 119(12), 4135-4141. doi:10.1007/s00436-020-06938-3
REIER, S., SATTMANN, H. & HARING, E. (2020). Optimizing conflicting tasks in the analysis of parasitic worms: morphological imaging, DNA yield, specimen and DNA preservation. Annalen Des Naturhistorischen Museums In Wien, Serie B, 122, 175-182.
REIER, S., SATTMANN, H., SCHWAHA, T., FUEHRER, H. - P. & HARING, E. (2020). Unravelling the hidden biodiversity – the establishment of DNA barcodes of fish-parasitizing Acanthocephala Koehlreuther, 1771 in view of taxonomic misidentifications, intraspecific variability and possible cryptic species. Parasitology 1–10, doi:10.1017/S0031182020001316
REIER, S., SATTMANN, H., SCHWAHA, T., HARL, J., KONECNY, R. & HARING, E. (2019): An integrative taxonomic approach to reveal the status of the genus Pomphorhynchus Monticelli, 1905 (Acanthocephala: Pomphorhynchidae) in Austria. – International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 8: 145–155. doi: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.01.009.
DUDA, M., HARING, E., BULATOVIC, A., HILLE, A., KRUCKENHAUSER, L., MACEK, O., MARKOVIC, J., PINSKER, D., PINSKER, W., REIER, S., SEFC, K., SLAPNIK, R., SITTENTHALER, M., SONNLEITNER, M., VALENTINCIC, J. & SATTMANN, H. (2018): The snail summiteers - Gastropod faunas of some exposed alpine locations in the Gesäuse National Park. – In: HARING, E., REIER, S. & SATTMANN, H. (eds): Arianta 6. – pp. 41–46, Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien).
DUDA, M., HARING, E., SATTMANN, H., MACEK, O., SCHINDELAR, J., SCHNEDL, S., ESCHNER, A., FRIEBE, G.J. & KRUCKENHAUSER, L. (2018): Malacological excursion to Vorarlberg (Austria) in the course of the Austrian Barcode of Life Project. – In: HARING, E., REIER, S. & SATTMANN, H. (eds): Arianta 6. – pp. 47–52, Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien).
HARING, E., PINSKER, W., DUDA, M., MASON, K., ASCHBERGER, M., BAUMGARTNER, G., BISENBERGER, A., BULATOVIC, A., DE MATTIA, W., ESCHNER, A., FEHER, Z., GIOKAS, S., HARL, J., HILLE, A., KIRCHNER, S., KRUCKENHAUSER, L., KYSELA, P., MACEK, O., MARKOVIC, J., PINSKER, D., REIER, S., RICHLING, I., SCHILEYKO, A., SCHINDELAR, J., SLAPNIK, R., SONNLEITNER, M., VALENTINCIC, J. & SATTMANN, H. (2018): Snails on the rocks. – In: HARING, E., REIER, S. & SATTMANN, H. (eds): Arianta 6. – pp. 31–40, Wien (Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien).
Books, Book sections
KEUENHOF, K., HEIMEL, P., ZOPF, L. M., RAIGEL, M., TURYANSKAYA, A., KAVIRAYANI, A., REIER, S., GLÖSMANN, M., SCHÖFER, C., KRALOVICS, R., STRELI, C., WENINGER, W. J., GEYER, S. H., SLEZAK, P., MACFELDA, K., JÄGER, R., WANEK, T., & WALTER, A. (2021). Multimodality imaging beyond CLEM: Showcases of combined in-vivo preclinical imaging and ex-vivo microscopy to detect murine mural vascular lesions. In Methods in Cell Biology (Vol. 162, pp. 389–415). Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2020.10.002.
KRUCKENHAUSER, L., DUDA, M., SCHINDELAR, J., MACEK, O., REIER, S. & ESCHNER, A. (2019): DNA-Barcoding österreichischer Mollusken – Ein Projekt der Initiative „Austrian Barcode of Life“. – In: Aescht, E. (ed.): Mollusca (Weichtiere) – Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte, Forschung und Sammlungen aus Österreich [Molluscs – Contributions to Cultural history, Research and Collections from Austria]. — Denisia 42. – pp. 511–515,.
Popular science
REIER S., SATTMANN H. & HARING E., 2019. Würmer ohne Grenzen. Das Naturhistorische (Magazin des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien im Universum Magazin), September 2019, pp 106-107.
Congress distributions: Talks
REIER S., KRUCKENHAUSER L., PALANDA?I?, A. (2021) Underground connections and paleohydrology rather than human translocations are causing the genetic complexity of Phoxinus lumaireul (Schinz, 1840) in the Slovenian Dinaric Karst. NOBIS Jahrestagung 2021 – 15 Years NOBIS Austria (online)
REIER S., BILLINGER F., BLATTERER H., DUDA M., GOROFSKY C., GRASSER H.-P., HARING E., HÖRWEG C., KRUCKENHAUSER L., SATTMANN H., SZUCSICH N., HEINISCH W. (2019) DNA barcoding of digenean trematodes and their intermediate hosts in Upper Austria, 6th ABOL meeting, Innsbruck, Austria
REIER S., BILLINGER F., BLATTERER H., DUDA M., GOROFSKY C., GRASSER H.-P., HARING E., HÖRWEG C., KRUCKENHAUSER L., SATTMANN H., SZUCSICH N., HEINISCH W. (2019) DNA barcoding of digenean trematodes and their intermediate hosts in Upper Austria, Parasitologische Fachgespräche 2019, Vienna, Austria
REIER. S., SATTMANN H., HARING E. (2019) Revealing hidden biodiversity of acanthocephalans in Austrian freshwater fish by DNA barcoding, 8th International Symposium of Ecologists of Montenegro, Budva, Montenegro
SATTMANN H. & REIER S., HARING E. (2019) Trematodes in snails, molecules in lakes – tracing larval trematodes with environmental DNA, 8th International Symposium of Ecologists of Montenegro, Budva, Montenegro
KRUCKENHAUSER L., DUDA M., SCHINDELAR J., MACEK O., REIER S., ESCHNER A. (2019) DNA-Barcoding of Austrian molluscs – an overview, 8th International Symposium of Ecologists of Montenegro, Budva, Montenegro
SATTMANN H. & REIER S. (2019) Looking on the snails´ side of life - Molluscs as
intermediate hosts of digenean trematodes, 1rst Meeting of the Mollusc Research Society Austria (MoFA), Salzburg
KRUCKENHAUSER L., DUDA M., SCHINDELAR J., MACEK O., REIER S., ESCHNER A. (2019) DNA-Barcoding of Austrian molluscs – a short update, 1rst Meeting of the Mollusc Research Society Austria (MoFA), Salzburg
REIER S., SATTMANN, H., SCHWAHA, T., HARL, J., KONECNY, R., HARING, E. (2018) New insights into the occurrence of the genus Pomphorhynchus Monticelli, 1905 (Acanthocephala) in Austria, NOBIS Annual Meeting 2018, Bozen, Italy
REIER. S., HARING E., DE MATTIA W. (2018) Genetic diversity in the rock-dwelling land snail genus Siciliaria., Workshop “Ecology and Biogeography of Karst Gastropods”, Podgorica, Montenegro
REIER S., HARING E., DE MATTIA W. (2018) The genus Siciliaria Vest, 1867 from northwestern Sicily with insights into related genera., Alpine Land Snail Workshop, Johnsbach
SUAREZ-RUBIO M, REIER S, BRUCKNER A (2018) Bats along an urbanization gradient: the relative importance of artificial light and vegetation structure., 48th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), Vienna
KRUCKENHAUSER L., DUDA M., SCHINDELAR J., MACEK O., REIER S., ESCHNER A. (2017) DNA-Barcoding of Austrian molluscs, 4th ABOL meeting, Vienna
REIER S., HARING E., FÜHRER H.-P., SATTMANN H. (2017) Morphologische und genetische Untersuchungen von Acanthocephalen in Fischen aus Österreich, ÖGTPM Parasitologische Fachgespräche 2017 „light“, Vienna
REIER S., BRUCKNER A., SUAREZ-RUBIO M. (2017) Der Einfluss von künstlichem Licht auf Aktivität und Artenreichtum von Fledermäusen entlang eines urbanen Gradienten in Wien., 4. Tagung „Fledermausforschung in Österreich“, Vienna
REIER S., HARING E., FÜHRER H.-P., SCHWAHA T., SATTMANN H. (2016) DNA barcoding as a tool for species identification in fish-parasitizing Acanthocephala of Austria., NOBIS 10 – A decade of diversity, Linz
REIER S., HARING E., FÜHRER H.-P., SCHWAHA T., SATTMANN H. (2016) Molecular genetics and morphological identification of Austrian Acanthocephala (Kohlreuther, 1771)., 50th Annual Meeting of the ÖGTPM - “50 years ÖGTPM - changes and challenges”, Vienna
Congress distributions: Poster
REIER. S., HARING E., DE MATTIA W. (2019) Integrative taxonomy of the genus Siciliaria Vest, 1867 from northwestern Sicily with insights into related genera, 1rst Meeting of the Mollusc Research Society Austria (MoFA), Salzburg – poster
REIER S., HARING E., SCHWAHA T., SATTMANN H. (2018) Morphological identification and molecular genetic analysis of fish-parasitizing Acanthocephala (Koelreuther, 1771) in Austria., 19th Annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS), Vienna
REIER S., HARING E., SATTMANN H.: Morphologische und molekulargenetische Bestimmung von Helminthen aus österreichischen Fledermäusen. 4. Tagung „Fledermausforschung in Österreich“ 01.04.2017, Vienna
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Harald
associate scientist
Bacher Florian
project researcher
Berg Hans-Martin
collection manager
Bibl Alexander
collection
manager
Bogutskaya Nina
associate scientist
Chai Min
Project Researcher
Duda Michael
Project researcher
Engelmaier Gernot
associate
scientist
Ernst Karin
Scientific employee
Franzke Jennifer
associate
scientist
Friedrich Rok
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Gassner Georg
collection manager
Gerlach Lilli
taxidermist
Grillitsch Heinz
associate
scientist
Grunstra Nicole D. S.
affiliated scientist
Haring Melina
taxidermist
Hengl Marietta
project researcher
Herzig Barbara
associate scientist
Hofbauer Eduard
technician
Illek Robert
head taxidermist
Kamschal Denise
technical
assistant
Kirchner Sandra
Staff scientist, Laboratory manager
Kornilev Yurii
project researcher "BMK Amphibien und Reptilien Österreichs"
Langnitschke Tim
scientific assistant
Leeb Christoph
project
researcher „C321083 Biodiversitätsfonds“
Mikschi Ernst
head of department
Palandačić Anja
Collection Manager, Staff Scientist
Pollmann Christian
technician
Querner Pascal
Project researcher
Reithofer Matthias
technician
Renner Swen
curator, senior scientist
Riedel Bettina
staff scientist & curator collection
NHM-4ART
Rubin Iris
model and diorama builder
Saliari Konstantina
curator, staff scientist
Schedl Benjamin
project researcher Harrison Collection
Schiller Katharina
research assistant
Schweiger Silke
curator,
staff scientist
Shandikov Gennadiy
project researcher
Sonnleitner Ria
project researcher "Gefährliche Fauna " (ÖBH)"
Sontag Walter, A.
associate scientist
Stefke Katharina
staff
scientist
Sumasgutner Petra
associate scientist
van den Elzen Renate
associate scientist
Viehauser Christof
scientific assistant
Wallner Nathalie
Administrative management, taxidermist
Witthoff Ronja
Taxidermist
Wolf Paul
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Wöss Günther
scientific assistant
Zachos Frank Emmanuel
curator, staff scientist