2023

October

Lorenz was named one of TU Wien’s

TUW under 30
(“die spannendsten 30 Köpfe unter 30”)

The TUW Magazin article about him and his work can be found here.

September

Tobi won the

Best Poster Award

of the EuropaCAT 2023.

July

Jonathan, Raffael, and Tobias were awarded

EURECA-PRO
Travel Grants

that cover their participation in the
3rd EURECA-PRO Conference in Greece

June

TUCAS spinoff “Sisyphus” won a

Gründungsstipendium

of the

Vienna Business Agency

June

Florian was awarded a

Niederösterreichisches
Landesstipendium

to fund his trip to the Operando VII
in Grindelwald (Switzerland)

April

Florian was awarded the

Posterpreis

of the 23. Österreichischer Klimatag

Feburary

TUCAS spinoff “Sisyphus” won two prizes at the

i²c STARTacademy Pitch challenge:

Impact Coaching (sponsored by the Vienna Business Agency)
and
IP Strategy Advisory (sponsored by the austria wirtschaftsservice)

2022

October

Raffael was awarded a

Travel Grant

from the

Paul Scherrer Institute

to participate in the 9th APXPS Workshop in Switzerland

October

The TUCAS spinoff “Sisyphus” won the

Brutkasten Sonderpreis

a partner of the S&B Award of the Rudolf Salinger Fonds.

August

Flo won a

Christiana Hörbiger Travel Grant

to travel abroad for six months

June

Christoph’s lecture „Physikalische Chemie I“
(held together with Assoc. Prof. Karin Föttinger)
was awarded an

Pro Didactica 2022 Award

in the category

Fairest Exam

by the Fachschaft Technische Chemie

February

Lorenz won a

Christiana Hörbiger Travel Grant

to travel abroad for three months

 

2021

October

Christoph was awarded the

Best Teacher Award 2021

of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry

September

Thomas was awarded the

Poster Design Award

of the SFB TACO Kickoff Meeting

for his poster titled

DFT Investigation of the effect of doping on CaMnO3

September

Lorenz won a

Graduate Student Award

of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2021 Fall Meeting

for his contribution titled

Doped Perovskite Oxides as Versatile Catalysts towards Fuel Production

September

Florian was awarded a

Förderungspreis für Chemie 2021

by the Gesellschaft österreichischer Chemiker (GÖCH)

for his diploma thesis titled

CO2 Utilization via Methane Dry Reforming

June

Florian has won the

Best Presenter Award

at the XVII International Forum-Contest of Students
and Young Researchers

in St. Petersburg

May

Florian was awarded a

Förderpreis 2021

by the Chemisch-Physikalische Gesellschaft (CPG)

for his diploma thesis titled

CO2 Utilization via Methane Dry Reforming

2020

November

Lorenz was awarded a

Förderungspreis für Chemie

by the Gesellschaft Österreichischer Chemiker (GÖCH)

for his diploma thesis titled

Structural and Chemical Characterisation of Doped Perovskites by XRD and XPS
Tailored Exsolution of Metal Nanoparticles

September

Lorenz has won the

EYCN Poster Prize

at the Young Chemists Summit 2020

June

Lorenz has won the

Best Presenter Award

at the XVI International Forum-Contest of Students
and Young Researchers

in St. Petersburg

 March

Lorenz won a

ICC2020 Young Scientists
Travel Support Prize

awarded by

IACS

to go to the ICC2020 in San Diego.

2019

October

Christoph was awarded the

Best Teacher Award 2019

of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry

August

Raffael has won the

IUCR Journals Poster Prize in „Applied Crystallography“

at ECM32

with his poster titled

MS18-P10, Structural Modification of Perovskites by
Tailored Exsolution for Enhanced Catalytic Activity

2017

September

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded
an ERC Starting Grant for the project

TUCAS
Tuneable Catalyst Surfaces for Heterogeneous Catalysis

to Christoph

June

The Theodor Körner Fonds awarded an
advancement award for the project:

Modelluntersuchung zur trockenen Methanreformierung
Die Nutzbarmachung von CO2 als erneuerbarer Energieträger

to Christoph

9

2014

April

Christoph has won

Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award
For Excellent Research in Surface Science

during a competition organized by the
Deutsche Physikergesellschaft (DPG)
in Dresden