15 years old. Student. And interested in electronics

By Birgit Baustädter Nikolaus is 15 years old and is studying for a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He's one of three young students who are currently attending lectures at TU Graz while still at school. . "His name is Nikolaus and he spends his time doing electronics - we just had to keep him at the Institute," says Bernd Deutschmann with a grin, head of TU Graz's Institute of Electronics. Two years ago the then 13-year-old Nikolaus Juch applied to the Institute and didn't only leave his CV behind as a lasting impression. Today Nikolaus is enrolled as a non-degree student at TU Graz and is working - like his namesake - on a Tesla coil. A Tesla coil is a transformer invented by Nikola Tesla which produces high-frequency alternating currents.