Who is who in the Fachschaft Doktorat

Katharina (Kathi) is a PhD student at the Automation and Control Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Armin is a PhD student at the Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics at the Faculty of Physics.

Christoph is a PhD student at the Institute of Electrodynamics, Microwave and Circuit Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Martin is a PhD student at the Automation and Control Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Matthias is a PhD student at the Institute of Photonics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Thomas completed his Masters degree in Business Informatics in 2022. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in the area of Recommender Systems. He is from the beautiful “Ländle” Vorarlberg. He was very actively involved in the Fachschaft Wirtschaftsinformatik (WINF) and the Student Union at TU Wien (HTU) and knows all the Ins and Outs of the faculty of Informatics.

Bettina is from the magnificent “Bodensee” in southern Germany. During her master’s degree in Psychology, she focused on data analysis and different data science-related topics. This paved the way to do her PhD in Data Science at the Faculty of Informatics.

Niko graduated from TU Berlin in Engineering Science and is now pursuing his PhD in Robotics.

Lisa Geiginger is a proper Vorarlbergerian girl who loves to spend her time “uf da Bärg” (on the mountains) going backcountry skiing or mountaineering. She is currently pursuing her PhD studies at the Institute of Telecommunications, working on robust machine learning (that means you’ll have to thank her when your autonomous car doesn’t crash right through a Stop sign). Being a social person, she’ll have breakfast with you even if she’d rather stay asleep and challenge you to a tough bouldering session after work. Camping trips through Italy or France give her a chance to live out her love for exquisite meals or drinks. 

Johannes aka Jayne is known as a long-served FET veteran. What sets him apart from other FSDr members is the fact that he is working at the Automation and Control Institute pondering the miracle of baking waffles. Besides a wide corpus of fascinating trivia, he is also known for sharing a lot of actually useful wisdom.

After Martin received his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2016 he started working as a Doctoral Candidate at the Automation and Control Institute at the faculty of Electrical Engineering. During his study, Martin was involved in the study comission of electrical engineering and doing different jobs at the Fachschaft Elektrotechnik.

Although I am a software engineer I worked on a design pattern catalog for digital card games at the HCI for my master’s thesis. I got interested in the field of psycho-informatics and currently try to find a precise research question in the field of motivation research, game studies, and human-computer interaction. During my studies at TU Wien, I’ve worked a lot to finance my living and founded three companies. Currently, I am returning to research and keeping the FSDR IT alive.

Georg received his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2019. Subsequently, he began his Doctoral studies at the Automation and Control Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering investigating an electrical machine type for electric vehicles. 

Ulrich received his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017. Subsequently, he began his Doctoral studies at the Automation and Control Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering investigating rolling mills.

Jakob received his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2017. Subsequently, he began his Doctoral studies at the Automation and Control Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering investigating an injection molding machine.

Michael received his Master’s Degree in Technical Chemistry in 2018. Subsequently, he began his Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Technical Chemistry investigating sodium barrier layers.

I studied my Master in civil engineering in 2016 at TU Wien and I have been in the Students Council of Civil Engineering. Now I am a university assistant at the Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures and working on my PhD in DNA

Thomas studied civil engineering at TU Wien, where he was already a member of the student council. Additionally, he worked on the tutorial project of the Federal Students Association. After having finished his studies he started as a project assistant at the Institute for Mechanics of materials and Structures, where he is currently working on modeling of brick structures on different length scales.

He finished his master’s in Automation in the faculty of electrical engineering at TU Wien. During his time as a pregraduate student, he became involved in the student union and participated in improving the curricula of the bachelor and master programs of the faculty. Since 2015 he has been employed at the Automation and Control Institute and researches in the field of control of hydraulic machines.

After finishing my master’s in the field of microelectronics, I started my dissertation at the Institute for Microelectronics in March 2013. Since I also was a student representative in my former studies, I hope I can help with the problems and needs of doctoral students.

I finished my master’s thesis for electrical engineering at the TU Wien. During my bachelor’s and master’s studies, I have been working as a student representative (for electrical engineering and university-wide) and want to use the gained experience in the work as a representative for doctoral candidates. During my first year as a doctoral candidate, the topic of my thesis in the group Vision for Robotics has yet to be stated precisely. 

Andreas is yet another electrical engineer among the current student representatives. After finishing his master’s studies in 2014, he’s now working at the Automation and Control Institute investigating mathematical models for chirped pulse amplifiers. Believing that doubt is a primal impulse for science and liberal arts, he seriously doubts he is ever going to finish his philosophy master.

Martin has been working on his dissertation since 2013 at the Automation and Control Institute. His research is about controller and observer design in the steel industry. During his diploma study, he was already working as a student representative at the faculty of electrotechnical engineering.

Claudius has been doing his PhD since 2014 at the research group on engineering geodesy at the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation. Besides his lectures, he works on the topic of geometric modeling of 3D point clouds for structural mechanic analysis.

Alex studied Business Informatics at TU Wien and is working on his dissertation at the Faculty of Informatics. His research interest centers around mobile apps and dynamic mobile app interfaces within personal area networks. Apart from that, he engages with the dynamic Austrian startup ecosystem as a freelance consultant and joined the Fachschaft to help improve the environment for his doctoral fellows.

Wolfgang Müller has studied mathematics at the TU Wien. He has held different offices in student representation. Now he is working at AIT on his dissertation. Because he likes to be there for his colleagues, he wants to become a representative for the doctoral program.

After I finished my diploma program in Technical Physics, I started as a doctoral candidate at TU Wien. Currently, I am working on the single-trap characterization in nanoscale MOSFETs at the Institute for Microelectronics. I have been working as a student representative since 2006. First as a member of the program representation of students of Technical Physics then as a member of the university representation of students and now as a representative of the doctoral candidates at the TU Wien.

is annoyed by the reaction he gets when disclosing his field of study, because that reaction is either “I ****** hated that in school!” or “Oh, like Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory!”. Suffers from severe perfectionism, which means that probably people have to wait for another ancient calendar to end before his Ph.D. thesis is finished.

I completed my diploma thesis at the Institut of Solid State Physics in the field of transmission electron microscopy. Now, I’m working on my dissertation doing research on the theory of inelastic electron scattering. The experimental part deals with the question “Whatever holds the world together in its inmost folds”. My experience as a student representative resulted in working as the vice head of the curricular commission for doctoral studies beginning in November 2011 and subsequently as the head of the commission between October 2012 and March 2014. Furthermore, I became rather experienced in being employed at different universities and research facilities at the same time.

Patrik Zips studied electrical engineering at TU Wien. He finished in 2012 and now works on his dissertation at the Automation and Control Institute. In his diploma study, he took part in creating the new curriculum as well as working as the student representative.

In the meantime, I have finished my doctoral program in Chemistry and I am currently working at the Institute of Materials Chemistry. As a former member of the representation for the doctoral program, I still try to find time to help out.

has studied physics at TU Wien. Currently, he is trying to finish his PhD at the Institute of Solid State Physics also at TU Wien. He was a member of the representation for the doctoral program.

True metal just is ugly.