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ÖPG PhD Prizes 2025

19. August 2025

[Translate to English:] — © OEPG, Hermann Detz

Two awards go to the IAP! Anna Niggas (E134-03) and David Rath (E134-05) were honored for their dissertations.

ICPEAC 2031 in Vienna!

31. July 2025

Richard Wilhelm to host ICPEAC 2031 in Vienna.

Moon under bombardment

23. July 2025

A view through a window into a vacuum chamber

Where does the Moon’s exosphere come from? A TU Wien study using real lunar rock reveals that the erosive effect of solar wind ions on the Moon has…

IAP alumna Elisabeth Gruber receives prestigious FWF-ASTRA Prize

25. June 2025

Friedrich Aumayr, Elisabeth Gruber, and Richard Wilhelm — © F. Aumayr | IAP

Dr. Elisabeth Gruber, a graduate of the Atomic and Plasma Physics research unit at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), TU Wien, has been awarded…

IAP Alumnus Michael Fehringer Leads ESA Earth Observation Missions

24. June 2025

Michael Fehringer, a graduate of the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Wien, has played a leading role in the development and implementation of…

Hannspeter Winter Prize for Anna Niggas

24. January 2025

What happens when you shoot highly charged ions at surfaces? Physicist Anna Niggas is developing new research methods and has now been honoured for…

Franz Viehböck Prize 2024

13. December 2024

Victoria Vojtech is the winner of this year's poster prize!

Poster Prize for Florian Zischka!

12. December 2024

Florian Zischka wins the Poster Prize at the 2nd Indo-European Symposium on Surface Engineering in Indien!

Promotion sub auspiciis praesidentis for Anna Niggas

09. October 2024

Anna with the promotor Prof. Dirk Praetorius at the Sub Auspiciis Promotion — © Klaus Ranger

Anna Niggas has received a special distinction that is only awarded to a few doctoral students: the “promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis”.

Alumni Event of the Atomic & Plasma Physics Group

27. September 2024

Group Picture of the Alumni Meeting of the FB Atomic and Plasma Physics — © D. Rath | IAP

On September 27, 2024, a special alumni meeting took place to mark the formal retirement of Professor Aumayr. The event, held in the Festsaal of TU…

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