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Launch of Atom*innen: online platform to empower and support women in physics

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ÖAW/Elia Zilberberg

Atom*innen, the brainchild of group leader Francesca Ferlaino, grew from the need for an online, user-interactive platform for women in (quantum) physics. Today, the project has taken form, with the aim of providing a focal point to:

  • inform with data on gender equality in physics to understand where we stand and what still has to be done,
  • support women with the information about fundings, prizes, associations, job offers etc,
  • empower women and girls by featuring role models and,
  • connect women in physics.

We are delighted to announce the launch of atom*innen: Networking for women in physics on the International Day for Quantum Physics (14th of April 2024). Why that date? Because we want people to understand that gender equality is everyone’s fight.  The in-person launch event took place in Wien on the 11th of April 2024, attended by the Federal Minister for Women, Family, Youth and Integration Susanne Raab.

You can learn more about Atom*innen here.

ATOM*INNEN HOST INSTITUTIONS

             

ATOM*INNEN COLLABORATIONS

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Aurora Fellowship 2024: Application deadline extended to April 14th!

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The application deadline for the 2024 Aurora Fellowship has been extended to April 14th! The Aurora excellence fellowship program for visiting Master and PhD students is an internship to enhance scientific collaboration and exchange in the fast-developing field of quantum science and technology between three of the nine universities that build up the Aurora European Universities Alliance.  You can find more information about the program and the application here.

 

Contact information: AuroraQfellowship@uibk.ac.at

 

 

Andrea L. wins ÖAW and FWF Disruptive Innovation – Early Career Seed Money!

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Andrea Litvinov, postdoc in the Er-Dy lab,  has won the “Disruptive Innovation – Early Career Seed Money” from the joint funding program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). This funding program facilitates the implementation of unconventional, innovative, and potentially high-risk ideas with an uncertain outcome.

Andrea’s project involves studying the connection between supersolid glitches in dipolar quantum gases and spin-ups in the rotation velocity in pulsars —  highly magnetized and extremely rapidly rotating neutron stars. Read more about his project below. Congratulations Andrea!

 

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Tag der MIP 2024

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Tag der MIP, the Day of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics took place on Thursday, February 22nd, 2024, demonstrating the science done at UIBK to ~400 high-school students. The FF Group took part by showcasing some ferrofluid and acoustic levitation experiments!

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See the UIBK site for more information: Tag der MIP

 

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RadioKulturhaus: Was die Welt zusammenhält featuring FF

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Francesca Ferlaino will be featured in RadioKulturhaus’ “Was die Welt zusammenhält” program on March 6th 2024!  Was die Welt zusammenhält (What holds the world together) invites leading scientists to meet personalities from culture, business and the media and exchange ideas about the future. Hosted by Günter Kaindlstorfer, this event’s guests are Francesca Ferlaino and Thomas Arnoldner, Deputy CEO of the A1 Group.

WED | 06 03 2024 | 7:30 p.m.
RadioCafe
Admission: FREE
Registration via the ORF RadioKulturhaus ticket office

More info can be found on the RadioKulturhaus Website: https://radiokulturhaus.orf.at/artikel/707984/Was-die-Welt-zusammenhaelt

Was die Welt zusammenhält mit Francesca Ferlaino und Thomas Arnoldner

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