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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.

Dissecting Complex Light Fields

Members of the OpNaQ group and the Christian Doppler Laboratory [1] at the University of Graz demonstrate how photonic integrated circuits can be used to decompose complex spatial light fields into their constituent parts.

Fünf auf einen Streich: Physiker:innen sind Nano-Teilchen in Flüssigkeiten auf der Spur

Mit freiem Auge sind sie nicht sichtbar, dafür manchmal schmerzvoll. Selbst kleinste Partikel, die bis zu 10.000-mal dünner sind als ein Haar, können in medizinischen Flüssigkeiten wie Augentropfen großen Schaden anrichten. Physiker:innen der Universität Graz und TU Graz haben in Kooperation mit der Medizinischen Universität Graz nachgewiesen, mit welchen Messmethoden sich winzige Nano-Teilchen erfolgreich aufspüren lassen. Die Expertise der Forscher:innen nützte ein Spin-off der Med Uni Graz, um die Technologie marktreif zu entwickeln.

Award-Winning Ideas. Innovation Awards for Christian Doppler Laboratory.

Congratulations to Christoph Stockinger, Gandolf Feigl, and Samuel Hörmann for winning the Photonics and DeepTech Challenge Best Idea Awards.

Inevitably Elusive

University Graz researchers (Banzer group) present a novel and highly precise method for measuring the elusive and intricate features of light’s electric and magnetic fields at nanoscale dimensions.

Breaking Barriers at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2024

The Falling Walls Science Summit 2024 in Berlin once again proved to be a global hub for groundbreaking ideas and transformative discussions. Bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, the summit served as a dynamic platform to explore innovations capable of shaping a brighter future for humanity.

The search for the hidden!

We are delighted to share our latest research results on improving the laser ultrasound (LUS) method for more efficient and accurate quality control of demanding samples with curved surfaces in industrial environments.

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From Kudu to Panther – International Structured Light and Matter Conference Coming to Graz

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Polarization-based traffic control for light

By using light’s polarization as a control knob, an international collaboration of researchers from Canada, Mexico, Germany and Austria experimentally…

On the 180th anniversary of Ludwig Boltzmann's birth: Physics building receives award

The physics building at Universitätsplatz 5 received a special distinction: it was included as number 75 in the "Historic Sites" of the European…

73rd Lindau Meeting

Dorian Brandmüller from the Institute of Physics at the University of Graz invited to join the prestigious Lindau Meeting 2024

Research, cross-borders

Max Planck Society and University of Graz sign official cooperation agreement

Structured Light and Networks of Photonic Highways

In a recently published research article, Peter Banzer and his team report on the measurements of structured light using integrated photonic…

New photonic chip can generate and measure customised light fields for the first time

They send light, like tiny cars, along sophisticated paths across a silicon surface. And they do this on a chip the size of the tip of a small finger.…

Light micros and efficient e-cars: Doppler lab for novel sensors launches

They use shaped light to measure sound and microwaves to spy on the torque in the e-car. Alexander Bergmann and Peter Banzer are working on completely…