Research grants - programs of excellence
Our faculty has been awarded 2 ERC Advanced Grants, 1 ERC Proof of Concept Grant, 2 ERC Consolidator Grants, 5 ERC Starting Grants, 1 FWF Wittgenstein Award and 6 FWF START Prizes in recent years.
| ERC Advanced Grants |
| Markus Arndt | 2012 | Processing biomolecular targets for interferometric quantum experiments (PROBIOTIQUS) |
| Anton Zeilinger | 2008 | Photonic quantum information technology and the foundations of quantum physics in higher dimensions (QIT4QAD) |
| ERC Consolidator Grant |
| Markus Aspelmeyer | 2015 | Quantum control of levitated massive mechanical systems: a new approach for gravitational quantum physics (QLev4G) |
| Paul Winkler | 2013 | Quantifying aerosol nanoparticle dynamics by high time resolution experiments (NANODYNAMITE) |
| ERC Starting Grants |
| Toma Susi | 2017 | Atomic precision materials engineering (ATMEN) |
| Bernadett Weinzierl | 2015 | Absorbing aerosol layers in a changing climate: aging, lifetime and dynamics (A-LIFE) |
| Jannik C. Meyer | 2013 | Picometer scale analysis and manipulation of novel materials (PICOMAT) |
| Markus Aspelmeyer | 2009 | Quantum Optomechanics: quantum foundations and quantum information on the micro- and nanoscale (QOM) |
| Frank Verstraete | 2009 | Quantum entanglement and the renormalization group (QERG)
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| FWF START Prizes |
| Nikolai Kiesel | 2016 | Thermodynamics by Levitating Optomechanics |
| Sofia Kantorovich | 2012 | Bridging the Scales in Dipolar Soft Matter |
| Philip Walther | 2011 | Photonic Quantum Simulations |
| Markus Aspelmeyer | 2009 | Quantum-Opto-Mechanics |
| Georg Kresse | 2003 | |
| Markus Arndt | 2001 | |
