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Committed to the highest standards

Three young researchers from the OpNaQ group gain insight into the world of standardization.

New groundbreaking computation method for climate extremes

How much will heat, flooding, drought and storms increase as a result of human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking study, climate researcher Gottfried Kirchengast and his team at the University of Graz have developed a new method for computing the hazards from extreme events: it can compute all relevant hazard metrics for events such as heat waves, floods and droughts in any region worldwide with unprecedented information content. Using it for Europe, the researchers found that anthropogenic climate change has caused a tenfold increase in extreme heat in recent decades. The study, published in the journal Weather and Climate Extremes, also provides a basis for better quantifying the damage to people, ecosystems and infrastructure.

And the winner is ...

The winner of this year's indoor soccer tournament for employees of Styrian universities, universities of applied sciences and teacher education comes from our Institute! We congratulate our team with the prestigious name ‘We All have Potential!’ on this great success!

Research on the International Stage

Visiting Award 2025 Takes Marko Šimić to Stanford University The Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Graz has awarded Marko Šimić the Visiting Award 2025. This mobility fellowship is granted annually to outstanding early-career researchers. Its aim is to promote research at the highest level at internationally renowned research institutions, providing financial and organizational support from the University of Graz and its research management services.

Happy birthday Schrödinger equation!

One of the most important equations of physics celebrates a round birthday.

Letzte freie Termine im Sommersemester: Schülerlabor „Candela“

Letzte freie Termine für Schüler:innenlabore, die für für die 3. bzw. 4. Klassen der SEK I konzipiert wurden, stehen für das Sommersemester 2026 noch zur Verfügung.

Making the cost of errors low to encourage initiative

Three questions for Axel Maas

Lightbulb moments: How two young physicists are working for tomorrow

They shed light on unresolved questions – and use it in their work in physics. Diana Shakirova is using light to distinguish different chiral molecules, which can have both healing and toxic effects. Christoph Stockinger, on the other hand, uses light to develop high-precision sensors. But it is not only light that connects the two physicists. The doctoral students took part in the NanoGraz Careers & Ideas Days to prepare themselves in good time for the next steps in their careers as young scientists.

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On the trail of the Big Bang: University of Graz receives 1.5 million euros for doctoral programmes

The Austrian Science Fund FWF has selected the Doctoral Programme in Theoretical Particle Physics at the University of Graz for funding from the…

New FWF – WEAVE Project "Longer Acenes: Synthesis, Interfaces, and Thin Films"

Unlocking the Potential of Longer Acenes: A New Era in Organic Electronics

Two Awards for an Outstanding Dissertation

Andreas Windischbacher received two prestigious awards for his outstanding doctoral dissertation. On March 17th, 2025, he was presented with the…

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…

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…

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…