For many heart patients of advanced age, the issue is not cardiac pumping performance. Rather, it is stiffening tissue that prevents sufficient blood flow to the heart muscle. Graz-based researchers are now looking for new solutions to counteract the stiffening of the muscle, aiming at reactivating autophagy in the heart. This could also open up new routes for treating dementia or metabolic diseases.
Security is the top priority of computer scientist Matteo Maffei. Maffei and his team at TU Wien are developing innovative solutions that protect both software developers and the privacy of users against hacker attacks.
Security is the top priority of computer scientist Matteo Maffei. Maffei and his team at TU Wien are developing innovative solutions that protect both software developers and the privacy of users against hacker attacks.
Plants hold a special fascination for biologist and Wittgenstein Award winner Jiří Friml. The scientist is interested in how plants have developed their survival mechanisms and how they work.
Historian Katrin Keller came across a real treasure in a Munich archive. She discovered letters from Empress Eleonore Magdalene Theresia von Palatinate-Neuburg, wife of Emperor Leopold I.
With the help of AI, psychologist J. Lukas Thürmer is investigating how people behave in groups and when working in teams. His focus is on the question of how teams react to individuals who deviate from the norm.
Turtle's carapaces reveal a great deal about the animals' living conditions. Each ring documents one year’s worth of climate conditions. Archeologist Katharina Streit wants to be the first to study this climate archive.
The start-up NovoArc was awarded the Austrian Phoenix Prize for the development of an easier way to take medication. Co-founder Oliver Spadiut dreams of tablets and drops instead of injections.
Migration researcher Lea Müller-Funk’s research explores the life stories and ambitions of Syrian refugees, uncovering surprising facts that tell a story markedly different from the oft-cited myths.
Oksana Havryliv is an expert on all things profane, crude or obscene. Her research deals with how and when people swear and how verbal aggression is changing in a multicultural society.
Both biological differences and gender have bearing on a person’s health. In Austria, gender medicine research was midwifed by Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, a pioneer in her field.
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.
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.
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.
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.
France is known for protests, but also for political states of emergency (états d'urgence) and police repression. Political scientist Katharina Fritsch is investigating the relationship between these aspects.
