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20 unusual facts about Vienna University of Technology


Alexander Binder

From 1991 bis 1995, he studied at the Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna

Bruno Zevi

Zevi participated in the influential International Architecture Symposium "Mensch und Raum" (Man and Space) at the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien) in 1984, also attended by Justus Dahinden, Ernst Gisel, Jorge Glusberg, Otto Kapfinger, Frei Otto, Ionel Schein, Dennis Sharp, Paolo Soleri, and Pierre Vago.

Cinema and Science

The contents are continuously supplemented by scientists and teachers as well as scientifically and didactically reviewed under co-ordination of the Vienna University of Technology.

Erdapfel

In 1992, it has been moved to the Vienna University of Technology, to be studied at high resolution by the Behaim Digital Globe Project.

František Gellner

He went to Vienna to study at the Polytechnic Institute but left after two years with just one exam in drawing.

Gernot Grabher

He received his Ph.D. in 1987 at Vienna University of Technology, and held positions at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), King's College London, the University of Konstanz and the University of Bonn.

Günther Tschabuschnig

Raised in Carinthia Tschabuschnig studied Medical computer science at the Vienna University of Technology and the Medical University of Vienna.

Julio Deutsch

He studied at the Vienna University of Technology under Heinrich von Ferstel and Karl König.

Julius Raab

He attended a Catholic high school and enrolled at the Vienna University of Technology in 1911.

Ludwig Greiner

He finished his education at the Vienna University of Technology where he took mathematics, physics, and chemistry in 1824–1826.

Martin Tajmar

Tajmar completed his PhD in Numerical Plasmaphysics at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1999, and is now an external lecturer for the university.

Maurits van Rooijen

He taught by invitation for extended periods at several universities worldwide, such as University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, University of Hull, University College London, Bergen University Norway, University of Hanover Germany, Vienna University of Technology Austria, and has held professorships at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Beijing Union University, Victoria University, Australia, Nyenrode Business University.

Paul H. Brunner

He currently is professor and head of the waste and resources management group at the Institute for Water Quality and Wastes Management, Vienna University of Technology in Austria.

Peter Friz

He studied at the Vienna University of Technology, Ecole Centrale Paris, University of Cambridge and New York University, and obtained his PhD in 2004 under the supervision of S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan.

Qemal Butka

Qemal finished his secondary education in Austria and in 1931 he graduated from Vienna University of Technology, with the title of architect engineer.

Reinhold Bertlmann

Bertlmann studied Technical Physics at the Technical University Vienna and Theoretical Physics at the University of Vienna, where he received his Ph.D. degree.

Rudolf Inzinger

Born in Vienna, he was a student at the Technische Hochschule in the same city.

Theodor Vahlen

In 1930 Vahlen returned to his birthplace and became a lecturer of mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Wien.

Will Alsop

Alsop was a tutor of sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London for several years, and has held many other academic posts, among others at the Vienna University of Technology, Universities of London and Hannover, and actively promotes the artistic contribution to built environments.

Zdeněk Bažant

He has supervised 60 PhDs in addition to receiving six honorary doctorates of his own (ČVUT 1991, TU Karlsruhe 1997, CU Boulder 2000, Politecnico di Milano 2001, INSA Lyon 2004, and TU Vienna 2005).


Adolf Smekal

Adolf Smekal studied at the Technische Hochschule, Vienna (1912–1913), received his doctorate from the University of Graz (1913–1917), and then studied at the University of Berlin (1917–1919).

TTP/A

Several papers were published by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology on TTP/A from 1994 through 2006 by Hermann Kopetz and Wilfried Elmenreich.