Research at the University of Vienna

  • RNA-model. Photo: University of Vienna
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The University of Vienna is the largest Austrian research institution. Approximately 6,700 scientists and academics guarantee its outstanding performance in research and teaching. The 15 Faculties and four Centres are dedicated to both basic and applied research.

In its further development, the University of Vienna aims to promote its strengths in research on the basis of the diversity of subjects it offers, and to encourage new fields of research. According to these objectives, new main areas of research have been defined, and research platforms established. >> Read more …


News

Cancer therapy: The decisive factor

Manuela Baccarini and her group at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories have detected a new signal pathway mechanism and publish their results in "Molecular Cell".

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2013-03-01
When cows burp

Scientists of the University of Vienna published about "Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen" in Nature Communications.

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2013-02-13
Invisible tool enables new quantum experiments

Physicists around Philipp Haslinger and Markus Arndt have now succeeded in constructing a novel matter wave interferometer which enables new quantum studies with a broad class of particles.

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2013-02-11
Vienna Quantum Fellowships

The Fellowships of the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) will be awarded on both the PhD- and the postdoc-level on the basis of an international competition. Deadline for the application is April 28, 2013.

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2013-01-25
World record for the entanglement of twisted light quanta

The Vienna research team led by Anton Zeilinger were able to generate and measure the entanglement of the largest quantum numbers to date.

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2012-11-02