Research Unit Geophysics

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Python for Natural Sciences

05. March 2025

Oblique view of a computer screen on which lines of code can be seen

Online Course to align students' prior programming knowledge at TUW

Women4Geo summer job

21. February 2025

Open position in your preferred research unit

Samuel Massart wins GeoPingPong 2024

30. January 2025

Two men with table tennis bats giving each other a side hug — © Böhm

In second place: Alexander Gruber

GELMON 2025

13. November 2024

In February 2025, the 7th International Workshop on Geoelectrical Monitoring (GELMON) will be hosted at the TU Wien.

Geo Green Team at the wastewater treatmeant plant

23. October 2024

Group photo with 14 young people, laughing in front of a wall with pictures of sewage treatment plant — © Ester Scheck

In mid-October, the Geo Green Team organised an excursion to the ebs wastewater treatment plant in Vienna Simmering. 14 members of the department took…

Predoc position in geophysics

21. October 2024

Electrodes stuck in ground covered with lush green grass — © Flores-Orozco

Open position

Our geodesy master is now in English

06. September 2024

red, blue and white swirls around a globe in a papercraft style with a focus on Europe — © DALL-E 3 (AI)

Starting in October 2024.

Federal Minister scanned!

08. March 2024

Collage of two images, on the left a 3D point cloud of a person, on the right a group photo of 4 people

We are at BeSt

Women4Geo summer job of the department

29. February 2024

Open position

Best Paper Award 2022 for Vreugdenhil, Steiner and Mikolka-Flöry

25. October 2023

The Best Paper Award of the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation is awarded every year by the Faculty Council. The awardees an their awarded…

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