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
DUNE: Dark UNiverse Explorations
Plöckinger, S. (Project Lead) & Hahn, O. (Co-Lead)
1/03/26 → 28/02/30
Project: Research funding
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
The Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST)
Ziegler, B. (Project Lead)
1/02/25 → 31/01/28
Project: Research funding
Completed third-party funded projects
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
Evolution of Habitable Conditions on Exoplanets
Güdel, M. (Project Lead)
1/09/20 → 31/03/24
Project: Research funding
SMILE satellite observations as a window into the Earth's past
Güdel, M. (Project Lead) & Kislyakova, K. (Co-Lead)
1/07/20 → 30/11/23
Project: Research funding
ArcheoDyn: Globular clusters as living fossils of the past of galaxies
van de Ven, G. (Project Lead)
1/09/17 → 28/02/23
Project: Research funding
Interstellar Cloud Topology with Gaia and Herschel
Alves, J. (Project Lead) & Großschedl, J. E. (Co-Lead)
1/12/19 → 30/11/22
Project: Research funding
COSMO_SIMS: Astrophysics for the Dark Universe: Cosmological simulations in the context of dark matter and dark energy research
Hahn, O. (Project Lead)
1/10/20 → 31/08/22
Project: Research funding