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By Medienservice At the Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Chemical and Process Engineering and Biotechnology at TU Graz, Mondi will endow two professorships, one in Pulping and Paper Technology and one in Food Contact Materials.

By Ute Wiedner Recently enrolled in their architecture studies and already internationally successful: Students won with their pavilion for a micro community at the Tongji Construction Festival at the TU Graz partner university Tongji.

The growth in renewable energy technologies will render future energy systems more complex and volatile.

Von Katharina Kocher, Kurt Mayer, Bernhard Marius, Bernd Cermenek, Viktor Hacker, Sigrid Wolf Finding the optimal combination of high performance and durability is a key factor in the realisation of future sustainable energy production systems.

Stochastic models are now indispensable for answering practical questions on finance and insurance. Their use needs to be based on a careful model validation process and an awareness of model limitations.

Jointly funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) over the next four years, the LOGOS-TBI project was launched at the Medical University of Graz and TU Graz in May 2019.

By Birgit Baustädter With several billion devices forecast to be connected by 2020, security is increasingly becoming a topic of public debate and attracting more and more attention in research circles.

By Werner Schandor "As soon as a building exceeds the requirements for energy certification by a fraction, everyone immediately starts talking about a green building.

Reliability is a wide-ranging subject in microelectronics, covering responses to different kinds of stress as well as measures to increase devices' tolerance against them.

By Christoph Pelzl A new publication by TU Graz is dedicated to the "Graz years" of the inventor genius Nikola Tesla and spans from his student days in Graz to Tesla's traces in the present.

By Christoph Pelzl The innovative camera system recognises pedestrians' intention to cross the road and changes automatically to green.

By Werner Schandor Since the EU sugar quota was liberalised, the market price is low, and sugar stocks are full.

By Birgit Baustädter Vanja Subotic is conducting research on ageing in fuel cells at an early stage, halting it, and in the best case scenario reversing it.

By Ute Wiedner The new issue of GAM on Territorial Justice thematises the area of tension between urban and rural regions in terms of needs-oriented spatial planning.

By Christoph Pelzl Spread over five years, the CAESAR competition focused on encryption processes for digital information.

Under the leadership of TU Graz, researchers are working on the development of CO2-free fuels and hybrid propulsion systems for small engines.

By Christoph Pelzl Under the leadership of TU Graz, researchers are working on the development of CO2-free fuels and hybrid propulsion systems for small engines.

Kay Römer estimates that 50 billion smart things will be connected by 2020. Since 2015 the scientist and his team have been making sure that smart devices reliably do what they are supposed to do.

By Victoria Graf NAWI Graz graduate Gustav Oberdorfer produces artificial proteins and has received an ERC Starting Grant for his work.

MAROON is a virtual laboratory and learning management system. Learning software allows users to access the learning environment directly by means of virtual reality.

By Birgit Baustädter Max Burian uses bright light to look deep into the core of matter. He works in a silver laboratory container next to the Elettra synchrotron particle accelerator in Trieste, Italy.

By Birgit Baustädter Advent at TU Graz is not exactly peaceful. It is tradition that Gernot Pottlacher gives an experimentation lecture - this year he explored the phase diagram, accompanied by bubbles, bangs and bursts.

By Thomas Wallek Surrogates are substitute mixtures comprising a few chemical compounds that emulate the physicochemical properties of real mixtures which may consist of several hundreds or thousands of compounds.

By Raffaele Ricco Metal-Organic Frameworks, also known as MOFs, are attractive porous materials with huge implications for both basic and applied research.

By Hermann Scharfetter The FETopen CONQUER project launched at TU Graz three years ago was successfully completed by August 31st 2018.