Group Picture after Daniel's Master Defence

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March 19th, 2025

Good things take time! We are very happy for Daniel, who successfully completed his Master's degree today. We (and SISSI in Hamburg) congratulate you, lieber Herr Diplomingenieur!

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Anna and Richard with the President of Austria

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March 17th, 2025

Anna was presented with a golden Ring for her promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae by Federal President Alexander van der Bellen in the Hofburg palace today. 

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Lidija with her doctor hat and her supervisors from Garching

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March 14th, 2025

Doktore, Doktore! Today was definitely a LidiJA day: Lidija defended her doctoral thesis today in impressive style and also confidently explained her doctoral hat. We are very happy and congratulate you, liebe Lidija!

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HITRAP Team

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March 9th, 2025

The HITRAP experiment at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt has been under construction for 20 years. There, highly charged ions are first generated with an energy of 79GeV and then decelerated to 1MeV. And we - together with colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen - were the first users of this worldwide unique facility!

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Felix and Alexander (or Felix and Felix?) at Fasching

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March 4th, 2025

I think I'm seeing double! The group celebrates Fasching and suddenly there are two Felixes in the room for lunch?

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CatIons Group photo

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Group photo CatIons project

January 29th, 2025

A very exciting and productive kick-off meeting for our new FFG project on the use of ion beams in research on novel catalysts. Together with Prof. Noelia Barrabes and Prof. Aleix Comas from the Faculty of Technical Chemistry and a strong team of young talents, we will investigate the effect of ion beam shaping for 12 months to improve the catalysis of chemical reactions.

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Johannes and Alexander at the Group Cooking Event

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January 27th, 2025

We organized a cooking event as a group outing. We split up into small groups and each group was responsible for one course. At the end of the day, we enjoyed a delicious four-course meal!

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Michael and Richard after Michael's Diplomprüfung

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January 22nd, 2025

Congratulations2! Michael has also successfully completed his Master's degree in this round of Diplomprüfungen. Congratulations Herr Diplomingenieur! We are delighted that you too will remain part of our research group for years to come!

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Loschmidt Prize for Anna

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January 21st, 2025

At the University of Vienna, Anna received the Loschmidt Prize 2024 from the Austrian Chemical Physical Society (CPG). On March 25th, you Anna will then give a talk in the course of the CPG talk series.

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Group Picture after Benji's Diplomprüfung

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January 17th, 2025

We would like to congratulate Benji on passing his Master's degree - we now have a new Diplom-Benjineur in the group! We are very happy that Benji will be staying with us for the next few years as part of his dissertation!

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Group Picture at the Christmas Market

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Group Picture at the Christmas Market

December 18, 2024
In keeping with an old tradition of the Atomic and Plasma Physics working group, today was our 2024 group outing to the Christmas market on Karlsplatz! With mulled wine, punch and fruit tea, we brought the year 2024 to a close!

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Victoria Vojtech is awarded the Franz Viehböck Prize 2024.

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Victoria at the Prize Ceremony of the Franz Viehböck Prize 2024.

December 13, 2024
Victoria won this year's Franz Viehböck Prize! She was presented with this highly competitive prize at the Institute's Christmas party - she was able to prevail against a record-breaking 42 participants! Congratulations, Victoria!

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Anna with the promotor Prof. Dirk Praetorius at the Sub Auspiciis Promotion

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Anna and Prof. Dirk Praetorius

October 9, 2024
Anna was awarded her doctorate today - almost a year after her defense - in a ceremony “Promotio Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis”, opens an external URL in a new window

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Retirement Party for Fritz and Martin with the TU Orchestra.

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Retirement Party for Fritz and Martin.

September 30, 2024
On Fritz and Martin Gröschl's last regular working day, the group celebrates their outstanding careers together with the entire institute and bids farewell to the two professors as they retire. However, Fritz will remain with us for some time and will continue to be active in our group! The celebrations were introduced by words of appreciation from the Institute's Executive Board and accompanied by music from the TU Orchestra.

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Group Picture of the Alumni Meeting of the FB Atomic and Plasma Physics

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Group Picture of the Alumni Meeting of the FB Atomic and Plasma Physics

September 27, 2024
Around 60 alumni of the “Atomic & Plasma Physics” research group came together today in the beautiful setting of TU Wien's "Festsaal" to celebrate Fritz's (formal) retirement. Here is a detailed report of the alumni meeting., opens an external URL in a new window

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Group Picture at the TUDx Retreat 2024.

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Group Picture at the TUDx Retreat 2024.

September 20, 2024
Despite the high water level, the first retreat of the TU-DX Doctoral College did not fall into the water! Four days in Waidhofen an der Ybbs awaited Vicki and her colleagues with a varied program: inspiring lectures on 2D materials, workshops in which they worked on Python and presentation skills, and a trip to the wildlife park to get to know the Waidhofen wallabies - and of course the perfect opportunity to get to know each other better and exchange ideas about the respective research projects.

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Anna, Richard und Martino at the Conference Outing in Amsterdam.

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Anna, Richard and Martino in Amsterdam.

September 5, 2024
Anna, Richard and Fritz attended this year's HCI conference in Egmond aan Zee in The Netherlands - a great opportunity to see collaborators again and to make new plans for future experiments. On the picture, Richard and Anna are seen on the conference outing together with our project partner Martino Trassinelli from Sorbonne University in Paris. 

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Matthias during his talk at the SPIG Sommerschule.

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Matthias at the SPIG summer school.

August 28, 2024
Matthias presented his work on the deexcitation of hollow atoms at the SPIG summer school and conference in Belgrade this week. It seems that even the French president Macron chose the week of his visit to the city to coincide with the conference.

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Alex and his poster at the UP Conference 2024.

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Alex at the UP Conference 2024.

July 16, 2024
Alex presents his work on ultrashort ion pulses at this week's UP (Ultrafast Phenomena) Conference in Barcelona. Almost as many people came to see the poster as celebrated Spain's victory at the European Championships on the first day of the conference!

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Portrait of Richard Wilhelm

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Richard Wilhelm

July 1, 2024
We are happy to announce that Richard got promoted to Full Professor of Ion Physics!

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Vicki's first electrons

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Vickis first electrons

June 18, 2024
Vicki measured the first electron spectrum with our new Fritz-detector!

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Lea and her MSc thesis supervisors

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Lea and her MSc thesis supervisors

June 13, 2024
Today, Lea finished her studies with a great defense of her Master's thesis. Congratulations Diplomingenieurin Lea!

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Our teams at the unirun

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Our teams at the unirun

6. Juni 2024
Beim diesjährigen Unirun haben sich unsere Teams "Highly Excited Peeps" und "Laserboiiis" ein spannendes Rennen geliefert. Wer hat wohl gewonnen?

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Two electrons are simultaneously emitted from a surface.

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Two electrons are simultaneously emitted from a surface.

May 13, 2024
We are proud of the newest publication of our group: The team around Wolfgang Werner published their newest results in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, opens an external URL in a new window. Check out also the corresponding TU Wien press release, opens an external URL in a new window. Congratulations Wolfgang, Florian and Felix!

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