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Start-Preis
The Start-Preis is the highest Austrian award for young scientists. It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science. It is endowed with up to 1.2 million Euro for a proposed research project for six years. The recipients are selected by an international jury of experts. The same jury also selects the recipients of the related Wittgenstein-Preis. Recipients * 1996: Christian Koeberl, Ferenc Krausz, Ulrich Schmid, Peter Szmolyan, Karl Unterrainer, Harald Weinfurter, Gerhard J. Woeginger, Jakob Woisetschläger * 1997: Gerhard Holzapfel, Bernhard Palme, Michael Schmid * 1998: Peter Grabner, Gottfried Kirchengast, Rudolf Valenta, Gerhard Widmer * 1999: Christoph Marschner, Norbert Mauser, Otmar Scherzer, Thomas Schrefl, Christoph Spötl, Joseph Strauss * 2000: Thomas Brabec, Susanne Kalss, Dietrich Leibfried, Herbert Strobl, Bernhard Tilg * 2001: Markus Arndt, Michael Buchmeiser, Wolfgang Drexler, Wilfried Ellmeier, Cleme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Schnass
Karin Schnass (born 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck. Education and career Schnass was born in Klosterneuburg. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 2004, with a thesis surveying Gabor multipliers supervised by Hans Georg Feichtinger. She completed her Ph.D. in communication and information sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2009. Her dissertation was ''Sparsity & Dictionaries – Algorithms & Design'', and her doctoral advisor was Pierre Vandergheynst. After postdoctoral research at the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz (chosen over Stanford University to stay close to her family) and as an Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow at the University of Sassari and University of Innsbruck, she joined the In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Kauers
Manuel Kauers (born 20 February 1979 in Lahnstein, West Germany) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is working on computer algebra and its applications to discrete mathematics. He is currently professor for algebra at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria, and leader of the Institute for Algebra at JKU. Before that, he was affiliated with that university's Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC). Kauers studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany from 1998 to 2002 and then moved to RISC, where he completed his PhD in symbolic computation in 2005 under the supervision of Peter Paule. He earned his habilitation in mathematics from JKU in 2008. Together with Doron Zeilberger and Christoph Koutschan, Kauers proved two famous open conjectures in combinatorics using large scale computer algebra calculations. Both proofs appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The first concerned a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Grobner
Harald Grobner (born 4 December 1980 in Neunkirchen, Austria) is an Austrian mathematician at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna. His research focuses on questions of algebra and number theory within the Langlands program. Career and research Grobner studied mathematics, philosophy and classical philology at the University of Vienna, where he graduated in 2005. From 2005 to 2007 he studied for his doctorate in mathematics at the Université Paris VI and the University of Vienna, with Joachim Schwermer as his supervisor. Grobner undertook research at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and the Faculty for Mathematics at the University of Vienna, before receiving the Schrödinger Grant of the FWF. From 2010 until 2013 he was a guest researcher at the Oklahoma State University, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and the Institut mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Northup
Tracy E. Northup (born 1978) is an American physicist who works at the Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research considers the development optical cavities and trapped ions to better quantum mechanical interactions. She was awarded the 2016 Start-Preis of the Austrian Science Fund. Early life and education Northup was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She received an undergraduate degree in physics at Harvard University. She then moved to the West Coast of the United States and earned her doctoral degree at the California Institute of Technology, where she studied coherent control in cavity quantum electrodynamics under the supervision of H. Jeff Kimble. She then joined Rainer Blatt's group at the University of Innsbruck as an international Marie Curie fellow. Research and career In 2015, Northup was appointed to the faculty of the University of Innsbruck, where she leads the Quantum Interfaces group. In an effort to achieve highly pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Balazs (mathematician)
Peter Balazs (born 11 December 1970 in Tulln an der Donau) is an Austrian mathematician working at the Acoustics Research Institute Vienna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Peter Balazs studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. In 2001, he graduated with honors in mathematics and an MSc thesis on "Polynomials over Groups" ("Polynome über Gruppen"). He successfully defended his PhD thesis and graduated (with distinction) in June 2005. His PhD thesis is titled, "Regular and Irregular Gabor Multiplier with Application to Psychoacoustic Masking". Peter Balazs has been part of the Acoustics Research Institute since 1999. His PhD thesis was written at NuHaG (Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group), Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna. The cooperation formed during his thesis also resulted in him becoming a fellow of the HASSIP (Harmonic Analysis and Statistics for Signal and Image Processing) EU network. He joined the LATP (Laboratoire d'Analyse, Topologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Fischer (mathematician)
Vera V. Fischer is an Austrian mathematician specializing in set theory, mathematical logic, and infinitary combinatorics. She is a privatdozent in the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic at the University of Vienna. Education and career Fischer completed her doctorate in 2008 at York University in Canada. Her dissertation, ''The Consistency of Arbitrarily Large Spread between the Bounding and the Splitting Numbers'', was supervised by Juris Steprāns. Before joining the Kurt Gödel Research Center, she worked at TU Wien from 2014 to 2015, where she led a project under the Lise Meitner Programme of the Austrian Science Fund. Recognition In 2017, Fischer won the Start-Preis The Start-Preis is the highest Austrian award for young scientists. It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science. It is endowed with up to 1.2 million Euro for a proposed research projec ... of the Austrian Science Fund. In 2018, she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Uhler
Caroline Uhler (born 1983) is a Swiss statistician working in the field of machine learning and applications in genomics. Her research focuses on developing methods for causal inference to infer regulatory relationships from different data modalities (transcriptomic, proteomic, structural, etc.). She is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she is a Core Institute Member of the Broad Institute, where she co-directs the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center. Education and career Uhler was born in Switzerland. She studied mathematics and biology at the University of Zurich, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2004, and a second bachelor's degree in biology and master's degree in mathematics in 2006. She stayed at the university for a credential as a high school mathematics teacher in 2007, but instead of becoming a teacher she travel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivona Brandić
Ivona Brandić (born December 23, 1977) is a Bosnian–Austrian computer scientist known for her research on cloud computing. She is University Professor for High Performance Computing Systems in the Institute of Information Systems Engineering of TU Wien. Education and career Brandić was born in Gradačac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of Yugoslavia. She came to Austria as a secondary school student in 1992, not knowing any German, as a refugee from the Bosnian War. She earned a master's degree in business computer science in 2002 from the University of Vienna, and a doctorate in the same subject in 2007 from TU Wien. She completed her habilitation in applied computer science at TU Wien in 2013. She was an untenured assistant professor in the Institute for Scientific Computing at the University of Vienna from 2002 to 2007, and in the faculty for informatics of TU Wien from 2007 to 2014, with a year on leave as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne in 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agata Ciabattoni
Agata Ciabattoni is an Italian mathematical logician specializing in non-classical logic. She is a full professor at the Institute of Logic and Computation of the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and a co-chair of thVienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien(VCLA). Education and career Ciabattoni is originally from Ripatransone. She studied computer science at the University of Bologna, and completed her Ph.D. in 2000 at the University of Milan. Her dissertation, ''Proof-theory in many-valued logics'', was supervised by Daniele Mundici. She moved to Vienna in 2000 with the support of an EU Marie Curie Fellowship, and In 2007, she earned her habilitation at TU Wien. She remains affiliated with TU Wien, as a professor in the faculty of informatics. She also serves as the Collegium Logicum lecture series chair for the Kurt Gödel Society. Contributions One of Ciabattoni's projects at TU Wien involves using mathematical logic to formaliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Kraus
Barbara Kraus is an Austrian physicist specializing in quantum information, quantum entanglement, and quantum key distribution. She is a University Professor and the head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck. Education and career Kraus is originally from Innsbruck. She studied mathematics and physics at the University of Innsbruck, earning diplomas in mathematics and physics and a PhD in physics, completed in 2003. After postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, the University of Geneva, and University of Innsbruck, she became an assistant professor in Innsbruck in 2010, and earned her habilitation there in 2012. She became full professor in 2020. Research Kraus is best known for her work in quantum information and especially in entanglement theory. Together with her coworkers she developed criteria to decide whether a quantum state is separable or entangled and showed how to construct optimal entanglement witnesses and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Fischer
Ilse Fischer (born 29 June 1975) is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, connecting these topics to representation theory and statistical mechanics. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Vienna. Education and career Fischer was born in Klagenfurt. She studied at the University of Vienna beginning in 1993, earning a master's degree (mag. rer. nat.), doctorate (dr. rer. nat.), and habilitation there respectively in 1998, 2000, and 2006. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Enumeration of perfect matchings: Rhombus tilings and Pfaffian graphs'', was jointly supervised by Christian Krattenthaler and Franz Rendl, and her habilitation thesis was ''A polynomial method for the enumeration of plane partitions and alternating sign matrices''. She worked as an assistant at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt from 1999 to 2004, with a year of postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Teschl
Gerald Teschl (born 12 May 1970 in Graz) is an Austrian mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics. He works in the area of mathematical physics; in particular direct and inverse spectral theory with application to completely integrable partial differential equations ( soliton equations). Career After studying physics at the Graz University of Technology (diploma thesis 1993), he continued with a PhD in mathematics at the University of Missouri. The title of his thesis supervised by Fritz Gesztesy was ''Spectral Theory for Jacobi Operators'' (1995). After a postdoctoral position at the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technische Hochschule Aachen (1996/97), he moved to Vienna, where he received his Habilitation at the University of Vienna in May 1998. Since then he has been a professor of mathematics there. In 1997 he received the Ludwig Boltzmann Prize from the Austrian Physical Society, 1999 the Prize of the Austrian Mathematical Society. In 2006 he was awarded with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |