The Johannes Kepler University Linz has been actively involved in shaping education and the future of Upper Austria for over 50 years. The university has produced several thousand graduates from four faculties, ranging from engineering & technology to social sciences, business, natural sciences, law, and medicine. That said, what are the stories behind people?

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... This is exactly what JKU graduate Dominik Lorenz wanted to know. While majoring in Mechatronics at the JKU, he decided then and there to become an entrepreneur. Together with a business partner, he created hoss Mobility and since then, he has been building two-wheeled electric wheelchairs. This installment of the JKU's podcast series "Hörsaal Ausblicke" focuses on how he came up with this unique idea.

In 1975, Erika Rosendahl Huber-Groiss was one of only 15 women to graduate in mathematics and physics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Her studies laid the foundation for her career, a career that took her to Holland to work for the Philips technology group as a researcher at the TV lab to develop, among other things, "half-switch plates," used for television sets at the time. She has fond memories of her time at the JKU, even though, as a woman, it wasn't always easy for her back then. During this episode of "Lecture Hall Insights", we spoke with Erika about why she once whipped out her knitting needles during a lecture in protest, why she turned down the invitation to a "Ladies Program", and why she likes the Netherlands so much.

JKU graduate Stefanie Schauer created Offisy (an advertising agency and the software company), volunteers at women's shelters, and is mom to two children.

She has very fond memories of her studies in business at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and studying for exams, even though she did not experience a lot of academic success at school. In this podcast episode of Hörsaal Ausblicke, Stefanie Schauer talks about how everything all came together in the end and why her student days at the JKU still remain "probably the best time of her life".

Just what is an economist doing at a beer brewery? JKU graduate Michael Pötscher, managing director of Craftvoll Ltd., is a driving force behind the recently re-opened "Linzer Brauerei" at the city's former tobacco and cigarette factory.


The podcast was recorded at the (in)famous JKU pub, "LUI", where Pötscher used to often enjoy a beer with fellow students. Was it back then already that he began to think of giving the old Linz beer brand a new lease of life? What does the JKU Uni Pils taste like? Pötscher gives a "lecture hall insight" into his professional career which all started with a degree in economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

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