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Research Accomplishments.

Excellence

ERC Grants

High-risk, pioneering research has paid off in the past ten years for a number of renowned JKU researchers as they have received highly coveted grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC).  Researchers receive approximately between € 1.5 to € 2.5 million for a five-year period.  ERC grants are awarded to leading junior, internationally known, recognized, and established researchers.

Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Martin Kaltenbrunner
ERC Proof of Concept
Titel: Mycelium-based substrate for sustainable flexible PCBs
Duration: 2023-2025

 

Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Gerd Bramerdorfer
ERC Starting Grant
Title: Electric Machines with Inherent Speed-Dependent Characteristics for More Sustainable and Efficient Energy Conversion (CHARMAELEON)
Duration: 2023-2028

 

Assoz. Univ.  Prof. Dr. Richard Küng
ERC Starting Grant
Title: Quantum converter "q-shadows"
Start: 2023-2028

 

Univ. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Widmer
ERC Advanced Grant
Title: WHITHER MUSIC? Exploring Musical Possibilities via Machine Simulation
Duration: 2022-2026

 

Univ. Prof. Dr. Robert Wille (until 2022 at JKU)
ERC Consolidator Grant
Titel: DA QC – Design Automation for Quantum Computing, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2021-2026

 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Müllegger
ERC Consolidator Grant
Title: Single-Atom Radio Frequency Fingerprinting (SARF)
Duration: 2018-2024

 

Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Martin Kaltenbrunner
ERC Starting Grant
Title: GEL-SYS - Smart HydroGEL SYStems - From Bioinspired Design to Soft Electronics and Machines
Duration: 2018-2023

Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Bert Jüttler
ERC Advanced Grant (Partner)
Title: CHANGE - New CHallenges for (adaptive) PDE Solvers: The Interplay of ANalysis and GEometry
Duration: 2016-2021

 

Assoc.Univ Prof. Ph.D. Rinaldo Trotta
ERC Starting Grant
Title: SPQRel - Entanglement Distribution via Semiconductor-Piezoelectric Quantum-Dot Relays
Duration: 2016-2021

 

Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Gerhard Widmer
ERC Advanced Grant
Title: Con Espressione - Getting at the Heart of Things: Towards Expressivity-aware Computer Systems in Music
Duration: 2016-2020

 

Dr. Georgios Katsaros (at the JKU until 2016)
ERC Starting Grant
Title: Towards Spin Qubits and Majorana Fermions in Germanium Self-Assembled Hut-Wires
Duration: 2014-2018

 

Univ. Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bauer
ERC Advanced Grant
Title: Soft-Map - Stretching Soft Matter Performance: From Conformable Electronics and Soft Machines to Renewable Energy
Duration: 2012-2016

 

Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas Klar
ERC Starting Grant
Titele: ActiveNP - Active and low loss nano photonics
Duration: 2010-2015

 

Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Alberta Bonanni
ERC Advanced Grant
Title: FunDMS - Functionalisation of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors
Duration: 2009-2013

Wittgenstein Awards

The Wittgenstein Award is presented to leading researchers in recognition of their outstanding experience and internationally recognized work. The award is endowed with €1.5 million and gives researchers the freedom and flexibility they need to continue conducting their research.

 

O. Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Serdar Niyazi Sariciftci
Title: Converting Solar Energy
Duration: 2012-2017

Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Gerhard Widmer
Title: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Music
Duration: 2009-2014

Special Research Areas (SRAs) / National Research Networks (NRNs)

JKU researchers are actively involved in several SRAs/NRN, opens an external URL in a new window. The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) supports these exceptionally efficient, closely integrated, national research networks, established in line with international standards.  The objective consists of fostering the development of key areas of scientific research. As part of these networks, researchers focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, long-term and elaborate research fields for up to a period of eight years.

F55
Quasi-Monte Carlo Methoden: Theorie und Anwendungen, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2014-2023
JKU: Coordinator

 

••F50
Algorithmische und Enumerative Kombinatorik, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2013-2021
JKU: Participant

 

S117
Geometry + Simulation, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2012-2021
JKU: Coordinator

 

S114
RISE - National Research Network Rigorous Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2011-2019
JKU: Participant

 

F35
Transmembrane Transporters in Health and Disease, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2018
JKU: Participant

 

S103
The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2015
JKU: Coordinator

 

S97
Organic Films, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2006-2012
JKU: Coordinator

 

S96
Analytic Combinatorics and Proabilistic Number Theory, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2006-2012
JKU: Participant

 

F25
Nanostrukturen für Infrarot-Photonik (IR-ON), opens a file
Duration: 2005-2015
JKU: Participant

 

S92
Industrielle Geometrie, opens an external URL in a new window
Laufzeit: 2005-2011
JKU: Participant

 

S90
Nanowissenschaften auf Oberflächen, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2003-2010
JKU: Participant

 

S83
Zahlentheoretische Algorithmen und ihre Anwendungen, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2000-2005
JKU: Coordinator

 

F13
Numerisches und symbolisches wissenschaftliches Rechnen, opens an external URL
Duration: 1998-2008
JKU: Coordinator

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), opens an external URL in a new window operates 25 research institutes in the field of innovative, application-oriented basic research in humanities, cultural, social sciences and natural sciences. One of these institutes is located at the JKU where - in cooperation with mathematicians all over the world - researchers focus on fundamental questions in the field of applied mathematics.

 

Collaborations

Christian Doppler Laboratories (CD Labs)

Named after the renowned Austrian mathematician and physicist Christian Doppler, the JKU has several Christian Doppler Laboratories (CD Labs), opens an external URL in a new window on campus. Research groups work closely with partners in the business community to conduct base-knowledge, applied-oriented research over a maximum period of seven years. The goal is to find innovative approaches to questions relating to business research.

 

CD Laboratory for Distributed Microwave and Terahertz Systems for Sensors and Data Links, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2024-2030
Lead: Assoz.Prof. DI Dr. Reinhard Feger

 

CD-Labor for Mastering Variability in Software-intensive Cyber-physical Production Systems , opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2021-2028
Lead: Univ.Prof. Mag. Dr. Rick Rabiser, Univ.Prof. DI Dr. Alois Zoitl

 

CD-Labor for Alterung von Polymerlaminaten bei mechanischer Beanspruchung und Umgebungseinwirkung , opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2020-2027
Lead: ao.Univ.Prof. DI Dr. Gernot M. Wallner

 

CD-Labor for Weiche Strukturen für Schwingungsisolation und Stoßdämpfung, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2020-2027
Lead: Assoz.Prof.in Dr.in Ingrid Graz

 

CD-Labor for Private Digitale Authentifizierung in der Physischen Welt, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2020-2026
Lead: Univ.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. René Mayrhofer

 

CD-Labor for Nanoskalige Phasenumwandlungen, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2019-2025
Lead: DI Dr. Heiko Groiß

 

CD-Labor for Digital unterstützte Hochfrequenz-Transceiver in zukünftigen mobilen Kommunikationssystemen , opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2017-2024
Lead: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mario Huemer, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Springer

CD-Labor for Modellintegrierte Intelligente Produktion, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2017-2023 (seit 01. März 2019 in Linz)
Lead: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Manuel Wimmer

 

CD-Labor for Mukosale Immunologie, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2017-2023 (since 01.01.2021 at JKU)
Lead: Univ.Prof. Dr. Alexander R. Moschen, PhD

 

CD-Labor for for Multi-scale Modeling of Multiphase Processes, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2016-2023
Lead: Priv.-Doz. Mag. DI Dr. Simon Schneiderbauer

 

CD-Labor for Alterung, Gesundheit und Arbeitsmarkt, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2014-2021
Lead: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerald Pruckner

 

CD-Labor for Strukturfestigkeitskontrolle von Leichtbaukonstruktionen, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2014-2021
Lead: Univ.Prof. DI Dr. Martin Schagerl

 

Monitoring und Evolution sehr großer Softwaresysteme - MEVSS, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2013-2020
Leader: a.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Paul Grünbacher

 

Kombinatorische Oxidchemie - COMBOX
Duration: 2013-2020
Leader: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Achim Walter Hassel

 

Klientenzentriertes Cloud Computing - CDCC
Duration: 2011-2016, phase-out period 09/2017
Leader: Hon. Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Schewe

 

Effiziente intermodale Transportsteuerung
Duration: 2013-2020, at the JKU to 2014
Leader: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Karl Dörner

 

•Mikroskopische und spektroskopische Materialcharakterisierung - CDL-MS-MACH
Duration: 2009-2016
Leader: Assoz.Univprof. DI Dr. David Stifter

 

•Modellierung partikulärer Strömungen
Duration: 2009-2015
Leader: Assoz.Univprof. DI Dr. Stefan Pirker

 

Nanoskopische Methoden in der Biophysik
Duration: 2008-2014
Leader: Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Peter Hinterdorfer

 

•Integrierte Radarsensoren
Duration: 2007-2013
Leader: Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Andreas Stelzer

 

•Laser - Assistierte Diagnostik
Duration: 2006-2013
Leader: a.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Johannes Heitz, a.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Johannes Pedarnig

 

•Automated Software Engineering
Duration: 2006-2013
Leader: o.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hanspeter Mössenböck

 

•Oberflächenoptische Methoden
Duration: 2003-2009
Leader: Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Kurt Hingerl

 

•Automatisierung mechatronischer Systeme der Stahlindustrie
Duration: 1999-2005
Leader: o.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Kurt Schlacher

 

•Plastiksolarzellen
Duration: 1998-2004
Leader: o.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Serdar Niyazi Sariciftci

 

Elektromechanische Sensorik und Aktorik
Duration: 1998-2000
Leader: o.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Reinhard Lerch

 

•Mathematische Modellierung und Numerische Simulation
Duration: 1992-1999
Leader: o.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Heinz W. Engl

 

•Methoden und Werkzeuge des Software-Engineering
Duration: 1992-1998
Leader: o.Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Gustav Pomberger

Competence Centres for Excellent Technologies (COMET)

The JKU is involved in several K-Center and K-Projects that are a part of the COMET program, opens an external URL in a new window. JKU researchers work together with industrial partners at an internationally competitive level on specifically defined programs. Project duration periods are three to four years and projects at the center can run for up to a ten-year period.

 

K2 Centers

LCM - Center for Symbiotic Mechatronics
Duration: 2018-2026
JKU: Managing partner, Scientific partner

 

K1 Centers

CEST – Kompetenzzentrum für eletrochemische Oberflächentechnologie GmbH, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2015-2022
JKU: Scientific partner

CHASE - Chemical Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2019-2027
JKU: Management, Scientific partner

Pro2Future – Products and Production Systems of the Future, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2017-2025
JKU: Managing partner, scientific leadership and scientific partner

SCCH - Software Competence Center Hagenberg, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2015-2022
JKU: Managing partner, Scientific partner

WOOD - Next Generation Materials & Processes - From Fundamentals to Implementations, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2015-2022
JKU: Managing partner, Scientific partner

K2 Centers

XTribology - Excellence Center of Tribology, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2010-2020
JKU: Scientific partner

ACCM - Austrian Center of Competence in Mechatronics, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2012 (FP1)
Duration: 2013-2017 (FP2)
JKU: Managing partner, Scientific partner

 

K1-Zentren

K1-MET – Competence Center for Excellent Technologies in Advanced Metallurgical and Environmental Process Development, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2015-2023
JKU: Managing partner, Scientific partner

ASSIC - Austrian Smart Systems Integration Research Center, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2015-2022
JKU: Scientific partner

ACMIT - Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2010-2017
JKU: Scientific partner

CEST – Centre of Electrochemical Surface Technology, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2014
JKU: Scientific partner

CTR - Carinthian Tech Research AG - Competence Centre for Advanced Sensor Technologies, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2014
JKU: Scientific partner

EVOLARIS - evolaris next level, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2016
JKU: Scientific partner

FTW - Competence Center for Information and Communication Technologies, opens a file
Duration: 2008-2015
JKU: Scientific partner

K1-MET – Competence Center for Excellent Technologies in Advanced Metallurgical and Environmental Process Development, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2015
JKU: Gesellschafterin, wiss. Partnerin

RCPE - Competence Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2015

SCCH - Software Competence Center Hagenberg, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2014
JKU: Managing partner, Scientific partner

Wood Comet - Kompetenzzentrum für Holzverbundwerkstoffe und Holzchemie, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2014
JKU: Managing partner, Scientific partner

 

K Projects

PSSP - Photonic Sensing for Smarter Processes, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2018 - 2022
JKU: Scientific Partner

AEDA - Advanced Engineering Design Automation, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2014-2018
JKU: Scientific partner

APMT - Advanced Polymeric Materials and Process Technologies, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2010-2014
JKU: Coordinator

e-Motion - Research in ICT for Tourism, Sports and Leisure Industries, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2008-2011
JKU: Scientific partner

FFT - Future Farm Technology, opens a file
Duration: 2010-2014
JKU: Scientific partner

HOPL - Heuristische Optimierung in Produktion und Logistik, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2014-2018
JKU: Scientific partner

imPACts - Industrial Methods for Process Analytical Chemistry - From Measurement Technologies to Information Systems, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2014-2018
JKU: Scientific partner

JOIN4+ Network of Excellence for Joining Technologies, opens a file
Duration: 2010-2014
JKU: Wiss. Partnerin

K-Licht - Energy Efficient Lighting for Humans Considering Biological & Quality Aspects Using LED, Daylight & Adaptive Controls, opens a file
Duration: 2010-2015
JKU: Scientific partner

Micromat - Reliability and lifetime of material interconnects in electronics, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2010-2014
JKU: Scientific partner

PAC - Process Analytical Chemistry - Data Acquisition and Data Processing, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2010-2014
JKU: Scientific partner

ProDSS - Integrated Decision Support Systems for Industrial Processes, opens a file
Duration: 2010-2015
JKU: Scientific partner

Softnet II - Competence Network in Next Generation Software Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2010-2013
 

Junior Researchers

START Awards

The START Award is presented in recognition of outstanding junior researchers. You have a unique opportunity to independently create - and be responsible for - a new or current working group, and you can focus on your research knowing that you are financially secure. The award is endowed with a maximum of € 1.2 million for a six-year period.

 

Dr. Stephan Pühringer
Title: Nachhaltige sozioökonomische Übergang „SETER“
Start: 2023

Assoz. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Richard Küng
Title: Quanten-Konverter "q-shadows"
Start: 2023

Assist.-Prof. Dr. Moritz Brehm
Title: Defektverstärkte Quantenpunkte als Silizium-Lichtemitter
Duration: 2020-2026

Univ. Prof. Dr. Manuel Kauers
Title: Fast Computer Algebra for Special Functions
Duration: 2010-2018

Dr. Georgios Katsaros (to 2016 at the JKU)
Title: Loch Spin-Qubits and Majorana-Fermionen in Germanium
Duration: 2014-2018

A.Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Heiß
Title: Nanoparticles for Single-Molecule Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
Duration: 2002-2010

 

The Austrian Academic of Sciences (ÖAW)

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), opens an external URL in a new window operates 25 research institutes in the fields of innovative, application-oriented basic research in humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, and natural sciences. One of these institutes is located at the JKU and in cooperation with mathematicians around the world, JKU researchers focus on fundamental issues and challenges in the field of applied mathematics.

 

Anna Stoib, MSc
Institute of Biophysics
Granted: 2022
Title: Elucidating the pH Gating Mechanism of the Inner Membrane Urea Channel UreI from Helicobacter pylori using MAVE

Mgr. Paul Strasser, MSc.
Institute of Polymer Chemistry
DOC-Stipendium
Granted: 2021
Title: Heterobifunctional BODIPYs as Photocleavable Macromolecular Building Blocks

DI Sebastian Paischer
Institute for Theoretical Physics
DOC-Stipendium
Granted: 2021
Title: First Principles Theory of Electron-Magnon Scattering and the Spin Polarized Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

Mag. Michael Josef Pfeifer, BA BA MA
Institute of Penology
DOC-Stipedium
Granted: 2020
Title: Das (Grund-)Recht, sich nicht selbst beschuldigen zu müssen, im Strafprozess, opens an external URL in a new window

Mag. Lisa Hain
Institute of Biophysics
DOC-Stipendium
Granted: 2020
Title: Molecular Interactions of European Lyme Disease Spirochetes Probed by AFM, opens an external URL in a new window

Benjamin Ferschli, MPhil
Institute of Sociology
DOC-Stipendium
Granted: 2020
Title: Essays in the Sociology of Work: The Effects of Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Re-Organization on Work and Employment in Austria, opens an external URL in a new window

DI Christian Schimpf
Institute for Semi-Conductor and Solid State Physics / Dept. of Semi-Conductor Physics
DOC-Stipendium
Granted: 2019
Title: Entangled and Indistinguishable Photons from GaAs Quantum Dots

DI Vladyslav Solokha
Center for Surface and Nanoanalytics
DOC Grant
Granted: 2017
Title: Spectroscopy of the Solid/Liquid Electrified Interface Toward Harvesting Solar Energy

Dr. Barbara Arbeithuber
Institute for Biophysics
DOC Grant
Granted: 2013
Title: Assessment of de novo Mutations in Meiotic Recombination Products

Dr. Maria Dammayr, Dr. Thomas Gegenhuber, Mag. Doris Graß
Institutes: Sociology, Business Administration, Education and Psychology
DOC-team Grant
Granted: 2013
Title: Legitime Leistungspolitiken? Governance und Gerechtigkeit in Schule, Hochschule, Altenpflege und industrieller Kreativarbeit

Dr. Dominik Göbl
Institute for Experimental Physics
DOC Grant
Granted: 2012
Title: Quasiresonante- und Auger-prozesse bei der Streuung von Ionen in LEIS (QUASI LEIS)

Dr. Stefan Fischer
Institute for Software Systems Engineering
DOC Grant
Granted: 2015
Title: Testing Variability-Rich Systems

Dr. Richard Herchl
Institute for Organic Chemistry
DOC Grant
Granted: 2011
Title: Phase-Transfer Catalysis for the Stereoselective Syntheses of Cyclic Compounds

Dr. Angelika Heißl
Institute for Biophysics
DOC Grant
Granted: 2017
Title: Meiotic recombination as a potential driver of microsatellite evolution

Dr. Dominik Kriegner
Institute for SemiConductor and Solid-State Physics / Dept. of SemiConductor Physics
DOC Grant
Granted: 2011
Title: Structural investigation of nanocrystals and supercrystals using X-ray diffraction techniques

Dr. Richard Lang
Institute for Innovation Management
APART Grant
Granted: 2015
Title: Linking Social Capital: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Governance Capacity of Cooperative and Community-led Housing

Dr. Stefan Sunzenauer
Institute for Biophysics
DOC Grant
Granted: 2010
Title: In vivo nanopatterning of membrane proteins in the T cell plasma membrane to study the influence of the lipid microenvironment on protein-protein interactions

The Doctorate College

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund, the Doctoral College programs are centers of education for highly qualified junior scientists/scholars in the Austrian and international scientific community. The program supports centers of excellence at Austrian research institutions to help ensure the continuity and impact of these kinds of centers.

 

 

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Nano-Analytik von zellulären Systemen (NanoCell)
Duration: 2014-2023
Leader: Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Peter Hinterdorfer

 

Computational Mathematics: Numerical Analysis and Symbolic Computation
Duration: 2008-2022
Leader 2008-2017: Univ. Prof. Dr. Peter Paule
Leader 2018-2022: Assist. Prof. Dr. Veronika Pillwein

 

Logical Methods in Computer Science (LogiCS), opens an external URL in a new window
Duration: 2014-2023
Leader: Prof. Dr. Martina Seidl

 

Molecular Bioanalytics
Duration: 2006-2009
Leader: Univ. Prof. Dr. Peter Pohl

Innovation

Spin-Off Fellowship Program
Austrian Research Promotion Agency

The spin-off Fellowship program, opens an external URL in a new window is intended to advance a university or research institution's intellectual property to the point at which that property can be utilized as part of a subsequent business start-up company. Fellows can be granted up to € 500,000 to support their project and ocus specifically on their research.

 

MoldSonics
DI Dr. Bernhard Praher
Duration: 2018-2020

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