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through our teaching we "enhance comprehensive competence".

The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) is located in the heart of Europe, in a cosmopolitan city of great cultural diversity. For nearly 200 years, the TU Vienna has been a place of research, teaching and learning in the service of progress. The TU Vienna is among the most successful technical universities in Europe and is Austria’s largest scientific-technical research and educational institution.

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Genetically modified fungi can produce pharmaceuticals from chitin - the substance, crab shells are made of. (TU Vienna, Creative Commons, Hans Hillewaert)

Pharmaceuticals from Crab Shells

13.02.2012

Fungi with additional foreign genes have been created at the Vienna University of Technology. They can now turn chitin into pharmaceuticals.


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Conference QCMC 2012. Apply NOW

03.02.2012

We proudly announce that the webpage for QCMC 2012 (Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing) in Vienna is online.


FE-simulation data

Making the Most of Your CT-Scan

30.01.2012

New computer modelling techniques for biomaterials enhance the possibilities of CT-data exploitation.


The Bohr model assumes that the electron moves around the nucleus, much like a planet around its star.

Jupiter’s „Trojans“ on an Atomic Scale

24.01.2012

The planet Jupiter keeps asteroids on stable orbits – and in a similar way, electrons can be stabilized in their orbit around the atomic nucleus. Calculations carried out at the Vienna University of Technology have now been...


Picture of a heavy-ion collision at CERN (copyright: CERN)

The Perfect Liquid – Now Even More Perfect

17.01.2012

Previous theories imposed a limit on how “liquid” fluids can be. Recent results at the Vienna University of Technology suggest that this limit can be broken by a quark-gluon plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle...