START Awards

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START awards

The START Award allows young top-level researchers to plan their research projects for the longer term with a high degree of financial security. Project leaders should be qualified for a leading position in the scientific system (in particular as university teaching staff in Austria or abroad), through autonomous development and leadership of a working group.

TU Wien Award Winners

2024: Esther Heid: Deep learning of chemical reactions
2024: Juan P. Aguilera: Proofs Beyond the Transfinite
2024: Uros Delic: Collective quantum effects in nonreciprocal systems
2023: Máté Gerencsér: Stochastischen partiellen Differentialgleichungen
2022: Stefan Pflügl: Formiat-basierte acetogene Bioproduktion von Treibstoffen und Chemiekalien
2022: Sandra Müller: Determinacy and Woodin Limits of Woodin Cardinals
2021: Laura Donnay: Black hole soft hair and celestial holography
2021: Hannes Mikula: Bioorthogonal Cascade-Targeting
2021: Julian Léonard: Quantum optimization with an atom-light simulator
2020: Elisa Davoli: The mathematics of smart materials
2020: Robert Ganian: Difficult problems and artificial intelligence
2019: Richard Wilhelm: Ion Impacts in Real-Time (time4ions)
2018: Emanuela Bianchi: New materials assembling themselves
2018: Josef Füssl: Making Wood Predictable through Computational Methods
2018: Philipp Haslinger: Atomic Interferometry in an Optical Resonator
2017: Miriam Unterlass: Hydrothermal to functional organic framework structures
2015: Ivona Brandic: Rucon – Runtime control in Multi-Clouds
2015: Gareth Parkinson: Surface science investigation of single atom catalysers
2013: Clemens Heitzinger: Partial differential equations for nanotechnology
2013: Stefan Woltran: Decomposition and dynamic programming for complex calculation problems
2012: Franz Schuster: Isoperimetric inequalities and integral geometry
2012: Jürgen Hauer: Octave-width laser pulses for 2D electronic spectroscopy
2011: Agata Ciabattoni: Non-classical proofs: theory, automation, application
2011: Thomas Müller: Graphene-based photonics
2011: Peter Rabl: Quantum dynamics of opto- and nano-mechanical systems
2009: Thorsten Schumm: Nuclear Physics with a Laser: 229Thorium
2008: Daniel Grumiller: Black Holes in AdS, the Universe, and Analog Systems
2007: Paul-Heinz Mayrhofer: Atomistic investigations of metastable phases
2006: Josef Teichmann: Geometry of stochastic differential equations
2004: Vassil Palankovski: Simulation of modern semiconductor components
2004: Gerhard Schütz: Immunology under the nanoscope
2000: Thomas Brabec: Light matter interactions at an ultra-short timescale
1999: Thomas Schrefl: Simulation of innovative magnetic substances
1997: Michael Schmid: Adsorption and growth on surfaces at an atomic scale
1996: Ferenc Krausz: Ultra-short light pulses
1996: Ulrich Schmid: Wireline – Wireless Factory – Facility Fieldbus
1996: Peter Szmolyan: Dynamically singularly perturbed differential equations
1996: Karl Unterrainer: Semiconductor nanostructures for terahertz electronics

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