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NanoGraz Careers & Ideas Days 2025: Career paths after the doctorate

On October 13 and 14, the consortium NanoGraz of the Research Career Campus at the University of Graz organized a two-day event to inform the consortium's doctoral students about their career options after completing their doctorate. In addition to exciting lectures by early-career researchers as well as representatives from industry, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and the research management of the University of Graz, a brainstorming competition took place on the second day, in which the participants had the opportunity to develop their own joint mini-projects.

Seed-Funding Grant: Bringing Ideas to Life Together

With the new OpNaQ Seed-Funding Grant, the OpNaQ Group, part of the Institute of Physics, lifts collaboration within the research group to a whole new level, and supports sub-groups in turning their ideas into concrete projects.

PhD Candidate Greta Cappello Awarded the 2025 Amelia Earhart Fellowship

Greta Cappello, a PhD candidate at the Institute of Physics, University of Graz, under the supervision of Prof. Manuela Temmer, has been awarded the 2025 Amelia Earhart Fellowship by Zonta International. The fellowship was formally presented last weekend in Aschaffenburg by Dr. Jutta Trube, Governor of Zonta District 14, and Ing. Petra Hackenberg-Wiedl from the Zonta Club Ingolstadt. This prestigious recognition supports Zonta’s mission to advance equality and create a world of better opportunities for women and girls.

DocDay-Retreat in Fürstenfeld 2025

40 Doctoral candidates from KFU and TU Graz met for the first DocDay in Fürstenfeld. A total of 24 speakers reported on their research projects.

Neues Schülerlabor des Fachbereichs Physikdidaktik

Der Fachbereich Physikdidaktik präsentiert sein in Zusammenarbeit mit der „Kaiserschild-Stiftung“ entwickeltes Schülerlabor „Candela“.

A Quantum Look at Chemical Bonds

Physicists from the University of Graz, working with international partners, have for the first time successfully revealed the nature of chemical bonds in ultrathin 2D materials. Their method, photoemission orbital tomography,is helping to position metal-organic frameworks, whose discovery was honored with this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, as strong candidates for future quantum technologies.

Making charge transfer visible

A research team at the University of Graz, in international collaboration, has clarified the mechanism of charge transfer at interfaces between organic semiconductors and molybdenum trioxide (MoO₃), a material used in modern organic electronics.

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