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Computer scientist Daniela Kaufmann and physicist Jiří Pavelec have been awarded prestigious, highly funded grants by the European Research Council.

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How can we design better catalysts for industry? Jiří Pavelec plans to build an autonomous robot that will collect the necessary data – under ultra-high-vacuum conditions and…

Illustration of an electron microscope with a magnified inset: A focused blue electron beam interacts with a row of trapped ions above a chip. One of the ions is shown inside a parabolic electromagnetic trapping field.
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A new invention is set to significantly improve electron microscopy: a small quantum computer is integrated directly into the microscope.

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Surprising Findings from Historical Data: the famous flood of 1342 was not an isolated event, but a series of events – providing insights for climate research and risk…

Close-up of a metallic experimental setup in a laboratory. In the center of a silver-colored apparatus, a small chamber is visible, in which several intense blue points of light are glowing. Transparent tubes lead into the setup from above; solid metal brackets surround the illuminated area.
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An experiment jointly performed by teams at University of California San Diego and TU Wien has discovered a new quantum regime of coherent X-ray generation with higher…

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Compelling game worlds don’t just happen by chance. Annalena Ulschmid is researching how computer graphics bring virtual worlds to life and explains why mathematics and…

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How technical expertise led to an international innovation: Thomas Längle, a graduate of the TU Wien, is working with the Swiss deep-tech company AVIAN to develop a system for…