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Lake Wörthersee under Pressure: Innovative System Measures the State of the Ecosystem The new holistic monitoring system developed under the leadership of TU Graz measures boat waves with millimetre precision using satellite navigation data and sensors on buoys and for the first time a...

🚤🍂 Lake Wörthersee under pressure: Innovative system measures the state of the ecosystem: The WAMOS project developed an innovative measurement and simulation system for the detection of sea waves and their ecological impact.
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Pregnancy in the Research Focus of TU Graz Research on pregnancy complications or the human placenta is difficult. Researchers at TU Graz want to change this by using mini-organs grown in the laboratory, simulations and models.

“Women generously provide us with their samples during one of the most profound and vulnerable phases of their lives.“ — Research on the human placenta is difficult. Researchers at TU Graz want to change this by using mini-organs grown in the laboratory.
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Development by TU Graz to Reduce Disruptions in the Railway Network Insulated joint systems are crucial for safe railway operation, but are susceptible to faults. The newly developed insulated joint is intended to extend service life and reduce maintenance and repair ...

⚡️🚅 Graz University of Technology, ÖBB, and Martin Schienentechnik developed a prototype for more robust insulated joints for train tracks. - www.tugraz.at/en/news/arti...

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TU Graz and Magna Open the Advanced Driving Simulation Center At Campus Inffeldgasse, one of the most powerful driving simulators in the world now enables cutting-edge research in the fields of driving dynamics and comfort as well as electromobility and automate...

🚘🛞 “With this driving simulator, we now have a research infrastructure that is unique in Europe and will sustainably enhance Austria as an automotive and mobility centre,” says TU Graz Rector Horst Bischof.

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Successful Regatta Season for the HPS TU Graz Sailing Team TU Graz’s High Performance Sailing (HPS) student team ended its successful 2025 sailing season with the traditional Eisarsch regatta on Lake Attersee and looks forward to the 2026 season with top moti...

The High Performance Sailing (HPS) student team of TU Graz gains new insights into the optimal performance of sailboats in scientific projects.
The results achieved prove the combination of technical competence, tactical precision and teamwork!
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Forestry is Becoming Digital and Automated TU Graz is launching the COMET project AutoForst for digitalisation and automation of the forestry value chain. The research project has a budget of 6 million euros and is being implemented in collabo...

Forestry is Becoming Digital and Automated! 🤖🌳

Facing a shortage of skilled labour, Austria’s forestry sector is turning to automation. In the COMET project AutoForst, TU Graz and its partners are developing systems that make forest work safer and more efficient.

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New Analysis Method for Semiconductor Materials TU Graz physicist Anna Galler and her colleagues are conducting research on semiconductor materials using the characteristic spectra of high harmonics (light with integer multiples of the original las...

TU Graz physicist Anna Galler and her colleagues are conducting research on semiconductor materials using the characteristic spectra of high harmonics (light with integer multiples of the original laser frequency). www.tugraz.at/en/news/arti...

Schrödinger’s Cat: When Reality Is Ambiguous Martin Schultze from the Institute of Experimental Physics at TU Graz and Visiting Professor Kazuhiro Yabana from the University of Tsukuba explain how Schrödinger’s cat makes the quantum world tangib...

>>Our idea of reality is only a small part of what is actually possible.<<

Martin Schultze from the Institute of Experimental Physics and Visiting Professor Kazuhiro Yabana from the University of Tsukuba explain how Schrödinger’s cat makes the quantum world tangible.
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Coffee as a Staining Agent Substitute in Electron Microscopy Researchers at TU Graz have proven that espresso is a favourable alternative to the highly toxic and radioactive uranyl acetate in the analysis of biological samples.

☢️🔬 To make tissue structures of biological samples visible under the electron microscope, they are treated with a straining agent: uranyl acetate, which is highly toxic and radioactive. A research team from TU Graz has now found an alternative: ordinary espresso. 😀

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Mind the Gap Diversity Awards: Prizes for Diversity in Practice Six projects at TU Graz were awarded diversity prizes. These ranged from fairness in AI and a learning app for sign language to the critical analysis of stereotypical Balkan memes.

Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) presented six Mind_the Gap diversity awards for outstanding university work in the areas of diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities in 2025. 🏆 🏅

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Opening hours during the New Year period When you can borrow books, visit the International House, use printing and copying services, and enjoy food and coffee during the Christmas holidays.

🚪🚶‍♂️ Opening hours during the New Year period 🎄🎆

When you can borrow books, visit the International House, use printing and copying services, and enjoy food and coffee during the Christmas holidays. 👉👉👉 www.tugraz.at/en/news/arti...

Aviation Fuel Production from Tomato Residues: TU Graz Coordinates Visionary EU project Residual biomass from tomato production is turned into climate-friendly aviation fuel. The aim of the EU ToFuel project is to develop a waste-free and CO₂-neutral biorefinery concept that produces sus...

🍅🛩️ Waste from tomato processing will serve to power aircraft. Under the leadership of TU Graz, the EU project ToFuel is developing a new biorefinery concept that will convert tomato residues into sustainable aviation fuel.

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We @tugraz.bsky.social disclosed a modular and inexpensive method of generating carbenoid reactivity in situ. Azoles & oxiranes catalyze the benzoin condensation. O2 exclusion is unnecessary. Utility is demonstrated by making a thermoset from the glycidylether of vanillin. doi.org/10.1002/adsc...

The Mysterious Temperature at the Edge of a Quantum System Viktor Eisler is concerned with the entanglement of quantum many-body systems and how it can be better described.

If you cool a particle system to absolute zero point, the energy fluctuations disappear in classical physics. In quantum systems, however, quantum fluctuations remain, and the system still seems to have a temperature.
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Fairness in KI: Studie zeigt zentrale Rolle menschlicher Entscheidungen Neben praktischer Hilfe sollen Empfehlungen auf Basis von KI vor allem auch fair sein. Eine neue Untersuchung von Forschenden der TU Graz, der Uni Graz und des Know Centers zeigt, wie das gelingen kan...

🤖🫴🤔 How can a fair and transparent recommendation be achieved by AI? Researchers have investigated this using a cycling app from the Graz startup Cyclebee. In doing so, they explored how AI can take into account the diversity of human needs.

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The BiotechPredict doctoral programme, headed by Robert Kourist, will receive around 2.6 million euros. Annette Mütze's ‘Computational Electric Machine Laboratory’ will continue until 2030.

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Tyre and Road Abrasion as the Biggest Source of Particulate Emissions in Road Traffic TU Graz study shows: Exhaust particles account for less than ten per cent of fine dust emissions from road traffic. Compliance with new air quality limits in 2030 will still be difficult to achieve.

🚗💨 Exhaust gases are no longer the most important emission factor from motor vehicles by far when it comes to particulate matter. This is shown by a large-scale study carried out by TU Graz for the FVV eV. in Germany.
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Water molecules in motion: Surprising dynamics on 2D materials Instead of jumping, water molecules walk: Graz University of Technology and the University of Surrey show how water moves in surprisingly different ways on ultra-thin materials.

💧🦵A team from TU Graz and the Uni of Surrey has discovered that water doesn’t “jump” on hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) – it actually “flows” or “runs”, moving far more smoothly than it does on graphene. The reason lies in tiny differences within the material itself.
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More Efficient Aircraft Engines: TU Graz Reveals Optimisation Potential Using an AI-supported model developed in-house, an interdisciplinary team at TU Graz has sought new methods to enhance the efficiency of aircraft engines.

An interdisciplinary team at TU Graz has developed an AI-supported model that makes it much faster to identify efficiency improvements in aircraft engines.

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Highly Talented Students Receive Scholarships Together with partners from industry and the public sector, Graz University of Technology is supporting 13 new scholarship holders from eight countries.

👏👏👏 In a multi-stage selection process, 13 students from Graz University of Technology proved to be particularly talented and thus earned themselves highly endowed scholarships.
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Fair Algorithms for All Elisabeth Lex took up the Professorship for Human Computer Interfaces and Inclusive Technologies at TU Graz in June. She explains what led up to this in the interview.

>>My field of research is about designing these systems in such a way that they also cater for people with special or less common needs. We develop technologies that are truly inclusive and adapt to the people who use them – and not the other way round.<<
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🟠 The four Graz universities reiterate their ongoing commitment that no tolerance is appropriate towards sexualised violence, sexual harassment and abuse of power as part of the international campaign "Orange the World - 16 Days against Violence against Women".

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How Permeable are Paper Food Packaging Materials? A new AI model developed by TU Graz combines data from laboratory tests with the laws of physics to calculate how well different types of paper protect food from flavour loss and contaminants.

🧃🥡 The problem: Paper packaging is air-permeable, which means that food can lose their flavour and solvents get inside.

🤖💡 The solution: A team led by Karin Zojer from TU Graz has developed an AI system that calculates the permeability of different types of paper for volatile organic substances.

TU Graz Honours Outstanding Teaching Three courses characterised by a high level of commitment, excellent teaching concepts and exceptional motivation were awarded the Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2024/2025.

🏅Every year, TU Graz awards the Prize for Excellence in Teaching to three courses, honouring lecturers and teams of lecturers for their outstanding commitment and outstanding teaching concepts. This year's winners received their awards at a ceremony on 18 November: www.tugraz.at/en/news/arti...

New Measurement Method Proves: Wastewater Treatment Plants Remove more than 95 percent of Microplastics TU Graz, TU Wien and the Environment Agency Austria have developed a method to determine microplastics in the in- and outflow of sewage plants, and demonstrated their high elimination performance.

🎉🗞️ Good News!

A team led by Günter Gruber from TU Graz and Helmut Rechberger from TU Wien were now able to prove together with the Environment Agency Austria that sewage treatment plants retain over 95 percent of determinable microplastics.

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Austrian Satellite Mission PRETTY Continues under the Leadership of TU Graz The Austrian Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA) have approved the mission's continuation. In future, the CubeSat PRETTY will operate as part of the OPS-SAT Space Lab. The project managem...

🛰️ The mission of PRETTY continues.

After providing data on changes in polar ice and sea levels, and the effects of space weather on satellites, the cube sat built at @tugraz.bsky.social will now operate as part of the OPS-SAT Space Lab from @esa.int.

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“As humans, we have no direct access to the quantum world.” Christoph Heil is a theoretical physicist at TU Graz and specialises in superconducting materials. His work would not be possible without quantum physics, as he explains in the interview.

In an in-depth interview, theoretical physicist Christoph Heil highlights how quantum physics underpins everything from LEDs to MRI scanners — yet the quantum effects themselves remain beyond our everyday perception. ⚛️

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Aerospace Team Graz wins European Championship title in rocket construction once again The student team, comprising members from Graz University of Technology, the University of Graz and FH Joanneum, impressed at the European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal with their ISPIDA hybrid rocke...

🥇 Congratulations to Aerospace Team Graz

The student team, comprising members from @tugraz.bsky.social, @uni-graz.at and FH JOANNEUM, impressed at the European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal with their ISPIDA hybrid rocket, confidently securing overall victory. 🎉

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TU Graz Researchers Open up New Avenues of Understanding Proteins With a newly developed method that compares AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones, function- and structure-regulating amino acids can be determined much more precisely than befo...

💡 Researchers from TU Graz have found a way to better understand what determines the function of proteins by comparing AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones.

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