With a time of 4:23:27, the “running STM” team made it over the finish line of the relay marathon 2022 in Linz. The four runners (Oliver Koch (Numerical Mathematics), Thorsten Wagner, Michael Hohage and Claudia Lopez-Posadas) proudly present their medals on Linz’s main square. Konrad Fragner was also a successful finisher over the quarter marathon course with 1:01:55.

JKU physics students on a big trip: 43 students visited together with Thorsten Wagner from the Institute of Experimental Physics, Department:Surface physics during a three-day excursion several major research institutions in Germany and Switzerland. One of the highlights was the visit to the Alice-Experiment at CERN in Geneva (see photo). Further stations were the Paul Scherrer Institute (CH) with the Swiss Light Source (SLS) and the Neutron Source (SINQ) as well as the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching (Germany).

On 20.05.2022 the "Long Night of Research, opens an external URL in a new window" took place on the JKU. It was a particularly gratifying and beautiful event for all of us. Experiments with helium, opens an external URL in a new window, light-emitting diodes and sounds, opens an external URL in a new window, as well as radiation, opens an external URL in a new window were prepared for the visitors. Even from the labs, Thorsten Wagner and Michael Hohage brought all kinds of materials to the surface.

Michael Györök successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 25.03.2022 entitled
“Aggregation of organic molecules on precious metal surfaces”
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Since the rigorosum took place via Zoom, he was able to receive his doctoral hat, which was decorated with all sorts of memorabilia from his doctoral thesis, only virtually.