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The Department of Astrophysics currently seeks to appoint a Full Professor. Applications can be submitted until 17 September 2025.
A team of researchers of the Department of Astrophysics of the University of Vienna is taking part in it.
Die two Teaching Awards of the Faculty go to Oliver Hahn, Agata Wislocka und Bodo Ziegler for the course Cosmology and to Janek Walk and Philipp Marr...
On 13 June, Erich Meyer will talk about "Der gesamte Sternenhimmel als großes Fotoprojekt".
From May to August 2025, Sergey Khoperskov from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam is Ida Pfeiffer Professor at the Faculty of Earth...
The contribution of the University of Vienna to the payload for the ARRAKIHS mission will be the Auto-Guiding System for the two instruments on board....
