Currently in the review phase.
The Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) announces a bi-annual "Call for Proposals" in support of cutting-edge research. Projects may be submitted in different project categories.
There are also special calls featuring specific objectives.
Current Call:
LIFT_C Call
More information here
Past Calls
Decision rendered in July 2024.
Decision rendered in June 2023.
Join projects:
- Elisabeth Gaar: MOSOPT: Solving multi-objective facility layout problems via semidefinite optimization
- Kurt Hingerl: 2D3M: Decoherence and depolarization in müller matrix measurements
- Navid Rekabsaz: FAIRFLOW: Fair representation learning with fine-grained adversarial regulation of bias flow
- Bernhard Schmidpeter: Exploiting information from job advertisements to explore gender gaps and recruitment strategies
- Susanne Schmittat: VILP: Video technology in legal proceedings
- Bernhard Sonderegger: MLSC: Model development for lifetime assessment of steels under various creep loads
Joint projects:
- Günter Klambauer: AIDD: Advanced machine learning for innovative drug discovery
- Lukas Klever: Self-help enforcement in the digital age
- Mahdi Saeedipour: MMBLOOD: Multiscale modelling of capillary-based blood separation
- Markus Schedl: TIMELY: Mitigating gender bias in job recommender systems: a machine learning-law synergy
- Claudia Schnugg: DIGI-SENSE: Digital sensemaking: constructive capacity building for co-creative transformative change
Joint projects:
- Oliver Bimber: Search and rescue by airborne optical sectioning
- Johannes Brandstetter: DEEP FLOOD: Assessing hydrological extremes via deep learning
- Oliver Brüggemann: Biocompatible graphene oxide (GO) composites for medical and agrochemical applications
- Christoph Mayr-Dorn: How do engineers coordinate and execute crossdisciplinary changes in software-intensive mechatronical systems?
- Frank Müh: Molecular mechanism of adhesion reduction by sandfish scales
- Thomas Takacs: PDE-aware isogeometric discretization based on neural networks
- Christoph Topf: Manganese catalysts for (enantioselective) redox transformations
- Mario Waser: Asymmetric synergistic ammonium (hypo)iodite-imine catalysis
Joint projects:
- Moritz Brehm: Strain tuning of next-generation group-IV light emitters
- David M. Cerna: Learning to prove by MATHematical induction: Invariant discovery aided by modern machine learning technology
- Andreas Ebner: Molecular recognition for medical blood diagnostics
- Martina Mara: Hands-on explainable AI
- Marcus Reindl: Color-independent generation of maximally entangled photon states in the solid state
- Manuela Schiek: Seamless bionic interfacing for visual neuro-prosthetics
- Markus Sinnl: Solution algorithms for hierarchical optimization problems
- Michael Vierhauser: Runtime monitoring for software-intensive systems
Joint projects:
- Günter Klambauer: Self-normalizing networks as enabler of functional modularity in large AI systems / AI-SNN
- Sudip Poddar: Development of design automation methods for sample preparation on two-phase droplet microfluidic labs-on-chips
- Armando Rastelli: Entanglement-based quantum key distribution with on-demand photons generated by semiconductor quantum dots
- Theresa Roland: Human motion sensor system for daily life and analysis ba means of AI
Completed projects:
- Isabella Derler: Novel control of calcium entry via light-sensitive unnatural amino acids
- Andreas Gruber: Brain aneurysm demonstrator
- Georg Reischauer: Ecosystem response strategies
Completed projects:
- Oliver Brüggemann: Chameleomers: Chameleon inspired bio-molecule-responsive structures for detection of wound healing progresses and abnormalities
- Werner G. Müller: Exchange methods for constrained experimental design
- Thomas Renger: Towards a multiscale simulation scheme for organic solar cells
- Jürgen Schöftner: Refined beam models based on the boley method
- Philipp Stadler: Conductive biopolymer carbonate reduction
- Ioannis Toulopoulos: Numerical Simulation of incompressible Non-Newtonian flows modeled by power-law Navier-Strokes systems
- Rudolf Winter-Ebmer: Digitalisation and routine jobs: Unemployment experience and job search
- Yuriy Zakharko: Nanocavity-coupled carbon nanotubes for quantum photonics
Approved projects:
- Judith Igelsböck: Upper Austrian Innovation Scripts
- Günter Klambauer: Deep Learning for in-silicio Toxicogenetics testing
- Thomas A. Klar: Sted Photochemistry
- Georg Kofler: Digitalization and Law: The LIT Digitized Village
- Andreas Müller: Exoskeletal Robotic Systems
- Stefan Pirker: Recurrence CFD Simulation of Linz/Westring pollutant dispersion
Completed projects:
- Armin Biere: Logic Technology for computer science Education
- Oliver Bimber: Towards a Flexible, Scale, and Transparent Thin-Film Camera
- Karin Bruckmüller: Autonomous Driving in Austria – Preconditions by, and a challenge for Criminal Law
- Alexander Egyed: Collaborative Engineering in a Multi-Tool Environment
- Ingrid Graz: From multi-material additive manufacturing of dampers to tailored viscoelastic dissipation
- Kurt Hingerl: Harmonium
- Clemens Hofreither: Fast multigrid solvers for Advanced Discretization Techniques in Isogeometric Analysis
- Astrid Pechstein: Mixed finite elements for smart materials and structures
- Yolanda Salinas: Degradable hybrid organosilica phosphazene mesoporous nanoparticles for nanomedicine
- Gabriela Slavcheva: Cavity-assisted non-classical light states generation with quantu mdots for integrated quantum photonics
- Irene Tiemann-Boege: Discovery of new Mutations with Ultra-Sensitive Sequencing
Completed projects:
- Bernad Batinic: Wearable Insights: The Potential of Tracking Technology to Enrich Psychological Research
- Moritz Brehm: Electrically Driven Ge Quantum Dot Lasers towards On-Chip Applications
- Andreas Ebner: Role of Cell Membrane Associated Hsp70 in Cancer Cell Adhesion and Metastasis
- Bernhard Etzlinger: 5G Secure Communications in Industrial Production Environments
- Sepp Hochreiter: Long Short-Term Memory For Self-Driving Cars
- Martin Kaltenbrunner: Career Accelerator Project Soft Electronics Laboratory SEL
- Nicole Kronberger: Neuroenhancement in Everyday Life
- Thomas Lichtenegger: Recurrence CFD – A Novel, Extremely Fast Simulation Technique for Complex Multiphase Flows
- Stefan Müllegger: Single-Atom Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
- Alexandru Paler: Complete Control Software for Reliable Quantum Computers
- Armando Rastelli: Scalable and Fully Tunable Quantum Dots for Quantum Technologies
- Milan Stehlik: Modeling Complex Dependencies: How to Make Strategic Multi-Criterial Decisions
- Thomas Voglhuber-Brunnmaier / Erwin Reichel: Sensing Arthritis with Integrated Novel Tools