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Young Talents

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In the Young Talents section you will meet emerging researchers who have already demonstrated remarkable research success – from award-winning master’s and doctoral theses to national and international research awards and grants as well as first authorships in renowned scientific journals.
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Storing hydrogen in small, red iron pellets

After playing Activity as a youngster, Fabio Blaschke soon realised that his future lay not in drawing, but in technology. Today, his research is examining iron pellets as a means for storing hydrogen.   Read more 19. September 2023

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Enzyme Research Between Cholera and Targeted Design

TU Graz biochemists Horst Lechner and Daniel Kracher have received BioTechMed-Graz Young Researchers Group funding. Both want to use it to conduct research on enzymes in different areas.   Read more 28. November 2022

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When an Electrical Engineer Hits the Stage...

Manuel Galler is the audience’s favourite. The 33-year-old electrical engineer was able to bring the Science Slam state championship title to Graz for TU Graz. His actual research topic is power grid protection.

23. November 2022
A woman is sitting at a computer.

Merit Bodner: Focusing on the Ageing of Fuel Cells

Fuel cells are of great importance when it comes to renewable energy systems. But – like everything else – they age. Merit Bodner wants to prevent this process with her research.

23. November 2022
A man with dark hair looks into the camera. He is holding a silver, round object in his hand.

“I just loved knowing what things are made of.”

This sentence comes from TU Graz researcher Ricardo Buzolin. The 30-year-old is actually a mechanical engineer, but switched to materials science because “every machine is made of materials”.

21. September 2022
A woman at her laboratory.

Sniffing out carcinogens in foodstuffs

Andrea Hochegger, an analytical chemist at TU Graz, investigates whether foodstuffs can be tainted with harmful substances from packaging or during production.

25. August 2022
A woman is sitting at a desk in front of her computer. There are many green plants set up.

Compost turner provides fertile ground for doctorate

Eva Reitbauer plots paths for autonomous compost turners as they move through compost heaps. A doctoral student from the Institute of Geodesy at TU Graz, she specialises in positioning and navigation.

11. August 2022
Lia Gruber is standing in front of the word "Energie".

Lia Gruber: The “Powerhouse” at Campus Inffeldgasse

Lia Gruber started her academic career at a school with a focus on theatre. Then she switched from acting to electrical engineering. Today she is working on energy communities.

17. January 2022
Portraits of Matthias Wolf, Birgit Wassermann and Sebastian Bock.

Award-Winning Research: Microbiomes, Hydrogen and Exoskeletons

Birgit Wassermann is conducting research on microbiomes, Sebastian Bock on hydrogen and Matthias Wolf on exoskeletons. Coming from diverse disciplines, all three won the Technology and Society Forum’s Sponsorship Awards.

6. December 2021
Niklas Pontesegger is standing in his lab wearing a white lab coat. There are three apples right in front of him.

Niklas Pontesegger: Science in the Apple Orchard

Niklas Pontesegger visits apple trees for scientific reasons to investigate how climate change is affecting the fruit. For his work he has received a young talent award.

22. March 2021
Three young men.

Solar storms as danger for the power grid

Power cuts have a wide variety of causes. Mostly we think of damaged power lines due to wind and weather or unplanned power surges that overload the grid. But solar storms can also lead to them.

23. December 2020
Samir Kopacic stands in his office wearing a white lab coat. He is holding a piece of paper in the one hand and a piece of plastic in the other.

Samir Kopacic: From crude oil to bioplastics

TU Graz researcher Samir Kopacic would like to contribute to less plastic and more biodegradable materials being used in the future. Meanwhile he is developing his own paper-based packaging.

18. November 2020
A man in a laboratory.

Experimental physics: inching closer to outer space

Peter Pichler from TU Graz’s Institute of Experimental Physics is researching liquid metal. At the moment, he is waiting for data from the ISS, which he will analyse in his dissertation.

5. August 2020
Markus Tranninger and Andrea Pferscher are standing under a tree in Inffeldgasse.

Young researchers making the Internet of Things safer

She investigates black-box-systems, while he predicts the state of networked systems. Andrea Pferscher and Markus Tranninger are two of 11 young researchers in the TU Graz project "Dependable Things".

24. June 2020
Ralph Stöckl recives his award from Elmar Pichl.

"I want to bring neural networks to building sites"

TU Graz PhD student Ralph Stöckl is working with artificial intelligence to predict events in construction. The goal is to take the construction industry a big step forward with neural networks.

25. May 2020
Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin works in her laboratory with PhD student Lukas Bernauer.

How a rejection gave rise to a career

Aged 18, Anita Emmerstorfer-Augustin had to say goodbye to her original career aspiration – and then found her vocation in biotechnology.

24. April 2020
Heidrun Gruber-Wölfler, Michael Leitner and Manuel Maier are standing infront of the building Infeldgasse 11.

Using measuring instruments to protect against explosion

Doctoral student Manuel Maier from TU Graz’s Institute of Process and Particle Technology received the Anton Paar Research Award for a measuring instrument that controls reactions of highly reactive substances.

18. March 2020
Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz and Daniel Gruss. Daniel Gruss holds a laptop computer with white text written on a black screen.

Michael Schwarz: Ideas not limited to working hours

Michael Schwarz is a security specialist at Graz University of Technology and, together with colleagues, generated a completely new field of research a few years ago. An interview with the researcher.

3. February 2020
Florian Lackner. He wears short blond hair and a blue shirt with blossoms. He stands infront of the photoemission electron microscope.

From Lego to New Material Building Blocks

Materials researcher Florian Lackner "wraps" highly reactive alkali metal atoms in gold and examines them in his laser laboratory. A job he dreamed of when he was a child.

11. November 2019
A young man is sitting at a desk. He wears a blue shirt, short brown hair and a short beard. His right hand touches the keybord. On the computerscreen there is a grey grafic with red elements.

Searching for the most efficient molecular recipe

Andreas Jeindl simulates the properties that materials ought to have under certain conditions. Among other things, he hopes to improve the OLEDs used in mobile phone screens and solar panels.

9. August 2019