Her research interests took Elisa Perrone from her native Italy to Linz and Klosterneuburg and, most recently, to the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At the MIT, the mathematician and Schrödinger Fellow pursues groundbreaking research questions to help improve weather forecasts. Continue reading “Next stop Kendall, MIT”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group of the Vienna University of Technology examined new roles for digital technology in the life of children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASCs). They co-operated closely with the children so as to be guided by their ideas and lifeworlds. Continue reading “Smart objects for people with autism”
The IT specialist Ivona Brandić talks about her traumatic experience of fleeing from home, about how she promotes environmental protection through her work in IT, and why there should be more risk appetite in research funding. Continue reading ““No risk, no gain””
At Boston University, Robert Baumgartner, holder of a Schrödinger grant, investigates the influence of the pinna on spatial hearing and is confronted with an interesting behavioural phenomenon. Continue reading “Research in the land of (un)limited opportunities”
One of the elements modern diesel engines require to become energy-efficient and clean are precisely controllable injection nozzles using piezo crystals. How exactly these crystals work has not been fully understood to date. A group of researchers from Leoben has now managed to make this technology more reliable and efficient. Their results are also of […] Continue reading “Better injection systems for diesel engines”
In the context of her Erwin-Schrödinger project at the Technical University of Denmark, Elisabeth Varga investigates compounds produced by microalgae that are potentially toxic to fish. In Denmark, the natural scientist has broken new ground not only professionally, as she reports in her contribution for scilog. Continue reading “Hygge, Hamlet and HABs”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Graz is investigating the behaviour of young honeybees immediately after hatching and successfully transfers this to robots. The bees’ brood-care strategies turn out to be surprisingly efficient. Continue reading “Robotics modelled on bees”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Leoben investigated how excavation methods for hard rock could be improved by using microwave irradiation so as to make classical mechanical excavation easier and save energy. Continue reading “Breaking granite with microwaves”
The mathematician Erika Hausenblas about integrating coincidence in mathematical computations, why she was socialised among men and is sometimes mistaken for a secretary. Continue reading ““I don’t fit the mould””
In the context of a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a group of researchers from Graz investigated an Internet of Things based on RFID chips without sacrificing security. Continue reading “An Internet of Things using chips without power supply”