HEAS Labs
The Higham Lab is based in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology in the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna.
We undertake rigorous radiocarbon pretreatment chemistry, to build robust chronologies from archaeological sites around the world and radiocarbon dating of organic remains from archaeological sites (with stable isotopes of C and N). We welcome collaborations from researchers. Contact us!
The Douka Lab is the first specialised palaeoproteomics facility in Austria, based at the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Vienna.
We investigate major questions linked to human evolution through the development and application of new biomolecular techniques. We focus on the taxonomic identification of collagenous and other organic materials and we routinely work on ancient bones, whether unidentifiable osteological remains or worked osseous artefacts.
With a new state-of-the-art MALDI-ToF Mass Spectrometer we perform in-house collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) and continue work towards expanding the reference ZooMS library through addition of new taxa in it from less researched parts of the world. Contact us!