Houska Prize 2020 goes to TU Graz researcher Harald Plank

TU Graz researcher Harald Plank was awarded the Houska Prize 2020 for the production of complex 3D-printed nano-components. Lunghammer - TU Graz By Susanne Eigner - With the research project "3D-Nanoprinting", Harald Plank from the Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis at TU Graz won the Houska Prize in the category "University Research", which is endowed with 150,000 euros. Austria's largest private research prize - awarded annually by the B&C private foundation - goes to TU Graz in 2020. The physicist Harald Plank and his team can look forward to the coveted golden trophy and the prize money of 150,000 euros for the first-placed team. The prize was awarded yesterday, 24th September, in Vienna. A total of 500,000 euros was awarded to application-oriented research projects. "This is a great success for the researchers and at the same time a wonderful acknowledgement of the efforts of TU Graz to specifically promote top performance.