Only one of the six award-winning projects is carried out in Innsbruck and not in the federal capital. Once again this year, the prizes will bring excellent scientists from abroad (back) to Austria.
Every year around the summer solstice, the Austrian Science Fund FWF announces the highest award for young researchers in Austria. This year, four men and two women are looking forward to the Start Prize, which is endowed with up to 1.2 million euros and has a duration of six years. An international jury selected their projects from 102 applications.
The majority this time goes to Vienna, only one project is not located in the federal capital, but at the University of Innsbruck (Markus Hartmann Möst). The Vienna University of Technology took the top spot with three starting prizes (Laura Donnay, Julian Leonard, Hannes Mikula). Followed by the University of Vienna, where Yash Lodha and Katharina T. Paul (see above) do research. The algorithm specialist Monika Henzinger, who receives 1.5 million euros from the FWF thanks to the Wittgenstein Prize, more than a Nobel Prize brings in, also has her home at the University of Vienna. (verse)
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