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Viola Winkler

Operator microCT and 3D lab
Viola Winklers ORCID record:
viola.winkler@nhm.at
Phone: +43 1 52177-254

2023 - 2024: Bausteine des Wissens:  das Naturhistorische Museum öffnet seine Sammlungen - Sneak-Peak in 270 Jahre Sammlungsgeschichte. Förderprogramm "Kulturerbe digital" des BMKÖS, First Call [Co-PI]

2022 - 2024: bITEM: Beyond the Item - Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects in Museums and beyond (go!digital 3.0, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) [PI]

2020 - 2021: MicroMus: Unlocking the Microcosm - Micro-CT Analyses in Museum Collections (
FFG F&E-Infrastrukturförderung 2) [visualization expert]

  • since 2022 staff scientist - operator microCT/3D lab
  • 2020 - 2021  Project researcher (3D visualization)
    MicroMus: Unlocking the Microcosm - Micro-CT Analyses in Museum Collections (FFG F&E Infrastrukturförderung 2)
  • 2018-2019 - Technical assistant at the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Anatomy
  • 2015-2018 - Master degree in Zoology, University of Vienna
    Master thesis: "3D cell proliferation patterns in developing bird limbs"
    Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd B. Müller
  • 2011 - 2015 Bachelor degree in Biology (Zoology), University of Vienna
    Bachelor thesis: "Caching behavior of ravens and crows in a social context"
    Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Thomas Bugnyar
  • 2011 - school leaving exam

 

2024
Aspöck U, Winkler V, Aspöck H, Gruppe A, Metscher B. First description of an intact copula in Coniopterygidae (Insecta: Neuropterida: Neuroptera) based on microCT imaging. Zoologischer Anzeiger. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2024.10.011

Páll-Gergely B, Sipos Á, Harzhauser M, Örstan A, Winkler V, Neubauer TA. Many roads to success: alternative routes to building an economic shell in land snails. Evolution. 2024;78(4):778–86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae018

Kroh A, Winkler V, Jovanovic-Kruspel S. Digital genial - die Sammlungen des NHM Wien per Mausklick nach Hause holen. NHM Magazin, Frühling 2024, Verlag Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.

Eichert S, Filzwieser R, Winkler V. Beyond the Item. NHM Magazin, Frühling 2024, Verlag Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.

Voyta LL, Petrova TV, Panitsina VA, Bodrov SY, Winkler V, Kryuchkova LY, Abramson NI. A Cybertaxonomic Revision of the “Crocidura pergrisea” Species Complex with a Special Focus on Endemic Rocky Shrews: Crocidura armenica and Crocidura arispa (Soricidae). Biology. 2024;13(6):448. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology13060448

Thuy B, Numberger-Thuy LD, Härer J, Kroh A, Winkler V, Schweigert G. Fossil evidence for the ancient link between clonal fragmentation, six-fold symmetry and an epizoic lifestyle in asterozoan echinoderms. Proc R Soc B. 2024;291:20232832. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2832

Mayr G, Göhlich UB, Roček Z, Lemierre A, Winkler V, Georgalis GL. Reinterpretation of tuberculate cervical vertebrae of Eocene birds as an exceptional anti-predator adaptation against the mammalian craniocervical killing bite. J Anat. 2024;244:402–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13980

Daxner-Höck G, Winkler V, Kalthoff DC. The porcupine Hystrix parvae (Kretzoi, 1951) from the Late Miocene (Turolian, MN11) of Kohfidisch in Austria. Palaeobio Palaeoenv. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00616-3

Lukeneder P, Ottner F, Harzhauser M, Winkler V, Metscher B, Ruthensteiner B, Jochum A. Lost & Found - Rediscovery of H. Hauffen’s Carychium material in the Dominik Bilimek Collection, BOKU University, including a contemporary assessment within the genus Zospeum (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae). Subterr Biol. 2024;49:97–116. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.49.130692

Grunstra NDS, Hollinetz F, Bravo Morante G, Zacho FE, Pfaff C, Winkler V, Mitteroecker P, Le Maître A. Convergent evolution in Afrotheria and non-afrotherians demonstrates high evolvability of the mammalian inner ear. Nat Commun. 2024;15:7869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52180-1

Boisset T, Lefebvre B, Mooi R, Kroh A, Winkler V, Adrien J, Martin M. Insights into stylophoran anatomy and taphonomy based on an exceptionally preserved mitrate from the Lorraine Group (Upper Ordovician) of New York, USA. Cah Biol Marine. 2024; 65:511–6.

2023
Haider A, Haring M, Illek R, Pavlovic M, Rubin I, Wallner N, Winkler V. Bunte Baumsteigerfrösche aus dem 3D-Drucker. NHM Magazin, Winter 2022. Verlag Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.

Saliari K, Pucher E, Boschin F, Winkler V, Formato L. Animal bones in the funerary practices at the 1st–3rd century AD necropolis of Potzneusiedl, Austria. https://www.academia.edu/100090869/K_Saliari_E_Pucher_F_Boschin_V_Winkler_L_Formato_Animal_bones_in_the_funerary_practices_at_the_1st_3rd_century_AD_necropolis_of_Potzneusiedl_Austria_

Mclaren E, Bronstein O, Kroh A, Winkler V, Miskelly A, Sommer B, Byrne M. Hidden in plain sight: Tripneustes kermadecensis (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) is a junior synonym of the eastern Australian sea urchin Evechinus australiae described in 1878. Invert Syst. 2023;37:741–54. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS23038

2022
Reissig LF, Geyer SH, Winkler V, Preineder E, Prin F, Wilson R, Galli A, Tudor C, White JK, Mohun TJ, Weninger WJ. Detailed characterizations of cranial nerve anatomy in E14.5 mouse embryos/fetuses and their use as reference for diagnosing subtle, but potentially lethal malformations in mutants. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022;10:1006620. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2022.1006620

Chichkoyan KV, Villa C, Winkler V, Manuelli L, Acuña Suarez GE. Paleopathologies of the clavicles of the Megatherium americanum Cuvier 1796 (Xenartha, Mammalia) (Giant ground sloth) from the Pampean Pleistocene (Argentina). Ameghiniana. 2022;59(6):390–406. https://ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/article/view/3509

Rudorfer J, Rausch AW, Winkler V, Haider A. Hallstatt 2022: Urgeschichte trifft auf Hightech. Der Standard - Archäologieblog. https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000138711893/hallstatt-2022-urgeschichte-trifft-auf-hightech

2021
Feichtinger I, Ivanov AO, Winkler V, Dojen C, Kindlimann R, Kriwet J, Pfaff C, Schraut G, Stumpf S. Scarce ctenacanthiform sharks from the Mississippian of Austria with an analysis of Carboniferous elasmobranch diversity in response to climatic and environmental changes. J Vertebrate Paleontol. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1925902

Eisl M, Grömer K, Hammer V, Hörweg C, Kroh A, Ott I, Winkler V, Zachos FE. Vier außergewöhnliche Möbel als Forschungswerkzeuge. In: Ott I, editor. Deck 50. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien; 2021. p. 16–20.
Winkler V, Haider A, Wegner W, Kroh A. NHM goes 3D. NHM Magazin, Winter 2021. Verlag Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.

2015
Winkler H, Winkler V. The brain of woodpeckers. In: Winkler H, Gusenleitner F, editors. Developments in Woodpecker Biology. Linz: Biologiezentrum des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum; 2015. p. 55–61.

Winkler V, Winkler H, Metscher BD. Klopf 3D-mal auf Holz – Neue Zugänge zur Biomechanik des Spechtschädels. Vogelwarte – Zeitschrift. 2015.

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Bertelli Daniele
project researcher "TETTRIs"
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De Mattia Willy
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Duda Michael
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Efthymiadis Georgios
project researcher „FWF PAT1494723 Garra“
Fial Nathalie
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Fischer Iris
Laboratory manager
Haring Elisabeth
Head of department
Heinzl Janine
Project researcher
Kapun Martin
Staff scientist - Bioinformatics
Kargl Victoria
ABOL-coordination team
Kirchner Sandra
Staff scientist, Laboratory manager
Kruckenhauser Luise
Head of the DNA Laboratory / Curator of the DNA- and tissue collection / Staff scientist
Löwenstein Augustina
Project researcher
Macek Oliver
Collection manager
Prost Stefan
Associate scientist
Sittenthaler Marcia
Associated scientist
Sonnleitner Michaela
ABOL-coordination team
Szucsich Nikolaus
ABOL-coordinator
Wanka Alexandra Julia
Laboratory manager
Wegner Wencke
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