Research networks and platforms
The Institute of Astrophysics is involved in the following research networks at the University of Vienna:
Third-party funded projects
Innovation in research is often enabled and driven by third-party funded projects: Since 2015 five European Research Council (ERC) grants, an outstanding National Research Network (NFN) funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and a big ESA Prodex project have been awarded to scientists of our department. Next to these projects, our postdoctoral researchers gained many national and international projects (MSCA-PF, EU H2020, FWF ESPRIT, FWF Lise Meitner Fellowships, FWF Elise Richter Fellowships). Browse through the list below.
Running third-party funded projects
ARIEL FGS Instrument Application Software
Kerschbaum, F. (Project Lead), Ottensamer, R. (Co-Lead), Mösenlechner, G. (Co-Lead), Mecina, M. (Co-Lead), Luntzer, A. (Co-Lead), Loidolt, D. (Co-Lead) & Baumgartner, V. (Co-Lead)
1/09/23 → 31/12/29
Project: Research funding
MICADO
Leschinski, K. (Project Lead) & Alves, J. (Co-Lead)
1/01/25 → 31/12/29
Project: Research funding
Early Earth, Mars and Venus as Exoplanets (EASE)
Kislyakova, K. (Project Lead)
1/09/24 → 31/08/29
Project: Research funding
Neutral Atomic Hydrogen in the solar neighborhood
Soler Pulido, J. D. (Project Lead)
1/08/25 → 31/07/29
Project: Research funding
Completed third-party funded projects
Tomography across the scales - Quantitative optical imaging from single molecules to stars
Scherzer, O. (Project Lead), Elbau, P. (Co-Lead), Drexler, W. (Co-Lead), Ramlau, R. (Co-Lead), Ritsch-Marte, M. (Co-Lead), Schnörr, C. (Co-Lead), Schütz, G. (Co-Lead) & van de Ven, G. (Project Lead)
1/03/18 → 28/02/26
Project: Research funding
Modeling of star formation on massively parallel computers
Vorobiev, E. (Project Lead)
1/02/20 → 31/01/26
Project: Research funding
Galaxia-Proxima
Alves, J. (Project Lead), Möller, T. (Co-Lead), Ratzenböck, S. (Co-Lead) & Schönfelder, P. (Admin)
1/08/22 → 31/07/25
Project: Research funding
Galactic ArchaeoLoGy based on K-band and Optical Spectroscopy
van de Ven, G. (Project Lead) & Breda, I. (Co-Lead)
9/01/23 → 8/01/25
Project: Research funding
Stellar/Solar Radiation and Particle Interaction with Athmospheres
Dorfi, E. (Project Lead) & Lammer, H. (Project Lead)
1/01/17 → 31/12/24
Project: Research funding
Chaotic streams and risks for Earth due to passing stars
Pilat-Lohinger, E. (Project Lead) & Maindl, T. (Co-Lead)
1/10/20 → 30/09/24
Project: Research funding