The German-speaking world's oldest university, where quantum entanglement won a Nobel Prize and Wittgenstein laureates span mathematics, microbiology, history, and the deep sea.
12 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Rector of the University of Vienna; Professor of Modern Art History
Rectorate
Thank you for bringing an art historian's eye to the leadership of the German-speaking world's oldest university, and for earning reappointment through 2030 by defending research and open inquiry in hard budget years.
Professor of Physics, Faculty of Physics; Scientific Director, IQOQI Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Faculty of Physics
Thank you for helping found quantum optomechanics and for daring the biggest experiment of all: bringing quantum physics and gravity face to face in the laboratory.
Professor of Organic Synthesis; Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry
Thank you for inventing new ways to make molecules and for sharing chemistry with the public so generously that Austria named you its Scientist of the Year; your path to Vienna's organic chemistry chair inspires far beyond the lab.
Professor of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematics
Thank you for the mathematics of waves and currents, work rigorous enough for the purists and real enough to sharpen our understanding of tsunamis and El Nino.
Professor of Microbial Ecology; Deputy Head, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS)
Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science
Thank you for co-founding CeMESS and for the single-cell tools that let us ask individual microbes who they are and what they do, from the nitrogen cycle to the human gut.
Professor and Head, Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (Archaea Biology)
Faculty of Life Sciences
Thank you for pulling Asgard archaea out of the deep sea and showing us our own closest microbial relatives, rewriting the story of how complex life began.
Professor of Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
Faculty of Life Sciences
Thank you for making the dark seventy percent of the ocean legible, tracing how deep-sea microbes quietly run the planet's biogeochemical cycles.
Professor of Central European History; Founding Director, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET)
Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies
Thank you for writing the history of our own transformation era with empathy and evidence, from the aftermath of 1989 to the experience of refugees, and for building RECET so that work continues.
Professor of Cognitive Biology, Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology
Faculty of Life Sciences
Thank you for co-founding Vienna's Department of Cognitive Biology and for asking, with real animals and real data, how language and music came to be, questions most scientists only dare to speculate about.
Professor of Civil Law; Co-Head, Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law
Faculty of Law
Thank you for thinking ahead of the technology, shaping how Europe regulates digital content, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, and for leading the European Law Institute you helped found.
Professor Emeritus of Physics; Senior Scientist, IQOQI Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Faculty of Physics
Thank you for taking quantum entanglement from philosophical puzzle to demonstrated fact, teleporting quantum states in 1997 and inspiring the quantum technologies now being built worldwide.
Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics; Honorary Member of the Senate of the University of Vienna
Department of Linguistics
Thank you for showing how language does political work, from everyday prejudice to the rhetoric of populism, and for training generations of scholars to read power critically and carefully.
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