TU Wien Informatics

2025

Jun 2025

  • Jun 19, 2025 Ethical Hacking, People, Cybersecurity From June 24-26, Austria’s ethical hacking community will come together in Dornbirn to hold the finals of this year’s Austria Cybersecurity Challenge.
  • Jun 10, 2025 People, Research, Panel Discussion, Women in Informatics, AI, Excellence Join us on June 10 with Dean Gerti Kappel and Minister for Women, Science and Research Eva-Maria Holzleitner to celebrate female excellence in science!
  • Jun 6, 2025 The Long Read, People Katta Spiel joins Austria’s UN Disability Rights Monitoring Committee. We spoke with them about the Convention and its local impact.

May 2025

  • May 20, 2025 #5qw, People, Faculty “I love to demystify things, making complex things simple. I’m curious about how things work and enjoy finding logical explanations.”

Apr 2025

  • Apr 21, 2025 #5qw, People, Faculty “One thing that’s really fascinating about informatics when it comes to creativity is that we’re able to build entire products.”

Mar 2025

  • Mar 17, 2025 #5qw, People, Faculty “When teaching AI ethics, it’s inspiring to see how students improve their argumentation skills and present their own perspectives on ethical questions.”
  • Mar 3, 2025 #5qw, People, Faculty “As AI becomes a ubiquitous part of our daily lives, it also raises security and privacy concerns.”

Feb 2025

  • Feb 7, 2025 #5qw, People, Women in Informatics, Faculty “We need to communicate more about how diverse computer science is and emphasize that everybody belongs here.”

Jan 2025

  • Jan 6, 2025 #5qw, People, Faculty “At university, there’s a lot of freedom and room for creativity to express what’s on your mind.”

2024

Dec 2024

  • Dec 30, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “I think if we better understand power and care and solidarity, that also helps us to understand why there are so few disabled people in computer science.”
  • Dec 23, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “They convinced me with an algorithm problem that problem-solving is basically computer science - with or without actual computers.”
  • Dec 2, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “It’s important to understand networks in terms of what’s going on within them and how they influence our behaviors, relationships, and societal structures.”

Nov 2024

  • Nov 15, 2024 Report, People, Public Lecture, Community, AI, Faculty On October 15 and November 12, we had the pleasure of officially welcoming our new Professors to the faculty.

Oct 2024

  • Oct 30, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “It’s great to be at the frontier of novel problems, and to try and find solutions for them. That’s a privilege you only get when you work in science.”
  • Oct 30, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “Our mission is to investigate how computers can enhance wellbeing and foster happier, more fulfilling lives through thoughtful technology design.”
  • Oct 28, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “We make it easier for people to coexist with intelligent systems. The goal is to make interactions between people and machines seamless, almost like magic!”
  • Oct 8, 2024 People, ERC, Faculty, Social Responsibility, Excellence ERC President Maria Leptin shared her experiences and gave insights into the importance of interdisciplinary research.
  • Oct 4, 2024 People, Award, Faculty, Excellence Astrid Weiss receives the Best Teacher Award 2024 and was honored for her exceptional commitment.

Sep 2024

  • Sep 30, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “To be able to concentrate on a hard problem for several days and find a solution will never lose its charm for me.”
  • Sep 30, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “I believe in Einstein’s quote “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”.”
  • Sep 30, 2024 #5qw, People, Faculty “I like seeing how teaching and research come together and applying that to the real world.”
  • Sep 24, 2024 People, Event Join us on October 15 and November 12 to meet our new professors and discover their diverse research areas.
  • Sep 3, 2024 Ethical Hacking, People, Cybersecurity On September 18, Austria’s ethical hacking community will come together to hold the finals of this year’s Austrian Cybersecurity Challenge.

Aug 2024

  • Aug 26, 2024 People, Community, Cybersecurity, Security & Privacy Starting September, Dominique Schröder will join us as Head of the brand-new Research Unit Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
  • Aug 21, 2024 People, Award, News, Start-Up, Entrepreneurship, Innovation Start-ups rarely make it big, so we are thrilled to announce that business communication company ecosio made the cut!
  • Aug 6, 2024 The Long Read, Digital Humanism, People, Digital Transformation, Interview, AI The Internet has been around for 50 years – but so has Hannes Werthner. He gave us insights into the first time he encountered the thing we call the Internet.

Jun 2024

  • Jun 11, 2024 People, eduLAB, Education Outreach, Students Sophie Rain, PhD student, is all about empowerment.
  • Jun 6, 2024 People, eduLAB, Education Outreach, Students Lukas Lehner, PhD student, likes to get to the bottom of things – and teach others all about what he finds out.

2023

Jul 2023

  • Jul 12, 2023 People, Excellence We are proud to present twelve outstanding students and alumni of TU Wien Informatics as part of TUW Under 30, 2023.

Jun 2023

  • Jun 12, 2023 Vienna Gödel Lecture, People, Research The number of stars in the Universe is 10²². The number of possible combinations of dams in the Amazon basin is 10¹⁰⁰⁺. We need AI.