Physics

22. December 2022

Cosmology meets data science

After the Big Bang …

What happened after the Big Bang? Astrophysicist Oliver Hahn is tracing our universe's early development by using supercomputers and clever algorithms. To find out more, our video team visited Oliver Hahn at the Department of Astrophysics of the University of Vienna.

13. December 2022

Audimax Podcast with Anne-Catherine de la Hamette and Lee Rozema

Working on questioning essentially everything

Quantum physicists Anne-Catherine de la Hamette and Lee Rozema work on challenging the fundamental principles of physics and how we think of our everyday life. In this podcast, they talk about their work life: They discuss how experimentalists and theoreticians are entangled, how they deal with their own uncertainties and the current trajectories of their fields.

10. December 2022

Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

Nobel Prize for Anton Zeilinger and his revolutionary "crazy ideas"

"Sometimes, you need to trust your intuition and your crazy ideas a bit" – the award of the Nobel Prize to Anton Zeilinger proves how right he was in saying so. On 10 December the physicist from the University of Vienna received the prestigious academic award for his groundbreaking work in the field of quantum information. Find out more about the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 and a review of the Nobel Week 2022 here!

7. December 2022

Presenting... Experimental physicist Iurie Coroli

Quantum mechanics of mesoscopic objects

Iurie Coroli, PhD candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, investigates quantum properties of so called "mesoscopic objects”, a scale between microscopic atoms and macroscopic everyday objects. Together with his team the experimental physicist builds a system using a high powerful laser beam to study the regime of quantum mechanics, as he explains in the video.

29. November 2022

Quantum Physics

Researching the Quantum World: What our universe is built of

At the University of Vienna, quantum physicists from different countries, ages and career levels, have one thing in common: Genuinely curious, they try to understand the fundamental building blocks of the universe. In the video, three researchers from the research group Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information tell us what drives them and take us on a tour of their workplace.

12. September 2022

A new interdisciplinary PhD programme

Physics and biology unite to study separation

A new phenomenon has taken the world of cell biology by storm, but its study requires people with a deep understanding of physics and biology. The University of Vienna offers a new PhD programme to nurse a new generation of researchers with the ability to think creatively in both fields.

7. December 2021

Presenting... Physicist Sarah Zloklikovits

How to teach physics

Electromagnetic radiation plays a huge role in our everyday life but people tend to have many misconceptions about it. Sarah Zloklikovits from the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics (VDSP) aims to change this by developing methods to teach the principles of electromagnetic radiation. Watch the video to find out more.

5. May 2021

Presenting... Physicist Valeria Saggio

Using quantum physics for machine learning

Valeria Saggio, doctoral candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, investigates the bridge between quantum physics and artificial intelligence. Her team was able to demonstrate that the learning time of agents can be reduced when quantum physics is used in the machine learning protocol.

16. December 2020

Presenting... Astrophysicist Tadeja Veršič

The mystery of dark matter

Tadeja Veršič is a member of the Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences (VISESS). In her PhD thesis at the University of Vienna, she aims to unravel the mystery of dark matter. The video gives an insight into her research.