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Biochemist Elly Tanaka is awarded the FWF Wittgenstein Prize 2025: She is researching how it is possible for the Mexican salamander species axolotl to form new limbs and even regenerate organs such as the brain and spinal cord.

Political scientist Alina Brad explores how the expectation of future carbon dioxide removal technologies is already influencing EU climate policy.

Chronic fatigue (ME/CFS) is a serious illness, characterized by the fact that even minimal effort can worsen the condition. Since the rise in Long Covid cases, ME/CFS has become more visible, but there is a lack of clear diagnoses. Biochemist Francisco Westermeier wants to change that.

FWF Schrödinger Fellow and postdoc in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate David Baker, shares his experience and explains the significance of the advances of protein design for medicine.

Physicist Gregor Weihs about quantum physics in Austria, the importance of knowledge transfer, application development and why basic research is a bit like art.

Communications scholar Sophie Lecheler is researching the kinds of dangers and opportunities algorithm-based political campaigns pose to democracy.

Biologist and FWF Wittgenstein Award winner Jiri Friml researches how plants recognize and adapt to changing environmental conditions.

FWF START Award winner Juan P. Aguilera is developing tools to clarify which mathematical problems are solvable and which are not.

Linguist and FWF START Award winner Svitlana Antonyuk is finding out how emotional reactions affect language change.

Dan Batovici explores the question of why some secondary early Christian figures attained a high status in late antique and medieval writings.

Why do we behave like we behave? How do we make decisions? At the Donders Institute in the Netherlands, Schrödinger fellow Elie El Rassi is contributing to advancing knowledge of the brain by relating different brain waves to specific functions.

At the IES of UC Berkeley, legal scholar Miriam Gassner is investigating how the emigration of Austrian legal scholars in the period from 1933 to 1945 affected their legal thinking once in US exile.

Cell biologist Alexander Leithner studies the communication among immune cells at the University of Oxford’s renowned Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology.

Schrödinger Fellow Michael Horodynski reports that in the USA people are more confident when it comes to implementing ideas. At the moment this physicist is working on the “quantum noise” of light at the renowned MIT in Boston.

Biotechnology expert Expedito Olimi is contributing to our knowledge of sustainable cycles. The Schrödinger Fellow is studying the microbiome of tomato seeds to maintain the vitality of the plants.

At Northwestern University (NU) near Chicago, economist Kilian Rieder took a look back in time to the unstable financial markets of the 1920s.

In the international environment of the University of Oxford, the microbiologist Isabella Tomanek is culturing and studying communities of gut bacteria to understand how they work together.

Biotechnologist Kathrin Göritzer develops plant-based antibodies that target the virus' gateway, the mucous membranes. These could be used to prevent infections like SARS-CoV-2 in the future.

Geologist and Schrödinger Fellow Erik Wolfgring is investigating sediment cores from the Cretaceous period. He is exploring the lessons to be learnt from this for the current climate crisis.

Schrödinger Fellwo Maria Kirchmair started out from Naples on a journey through the barely explored Mediterranean world as portrayed in Italian literature and film.