Faculty

	Prof. Sabine Schindler Sabine Schindler is Professor of Astrophysics and head of the Institute of Astro- and Particle Physics at the University of Innsbruck. She is the speaker of this doctoral school and Director of Studies in Physics at the University. Her research interests include interaction of galaxies and intra-cluster gas, mass determination of galaxy clusters by X-ray observations and gravitational lensing, structure formation on cosmological scales, and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage sabine.schindler@uibk.ac.at
	A. Prof. Stefan Kimeswenger Stefan Kimeswenger is Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Innsbruck. His research intrests are in the field of stellar and galactic astrophysics. His focus is on extreme phases of late stages of stars. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage stefan.kimeswenger@uibk.ac.at
	Prof. Olaf Reimer Olaf Reimer is Professor for Experimental Astro- and Particle Physics and head of the Unit of Astroparticle Physics at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests are in the field of high energy astro- and particle physics, in particular cosmic ray interactions, propagation and acceleration by means of gamma-ray astrophysics. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage olaf.reimer@uibk.ac.at
	A. Prof. Alexander Kendl Alexander Kendl is Associate Professor at the Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests are in nonlinear dynamics, turbulence and structure formation, plasma physics and fusion research, and computational physics. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage alexander.kendl@uibk.ac.at
	A. Prof. Michael Probst Michael Probst is Associate Professor at the Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics at the University of Innsbruck. His Computational Chemistry and Molecular Physics group investigates properties and reactions of neutral and charged clusters and molecules. Actual fields of research are: elucidation of reaction mechanisms by combined quantum-(thermo)chemical and molecular dynamical calculations and simulations, visualisation methods, metastable anions, electro- and physical chemistry of electrolytes. michael.probst@uibk.ac.at
	Prof. Günter Hofstetter Günter Hofstetter is Professor of Strength of Materials, head of the Unit of Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis of the Institute of Basic Sciences in Civil Engineering at the University of Innsbruck and speaker of the research centre Computational Engineering. His research interests are in the field of Computational Mechanics, in particular, constitutive modelling of concrete and soils and material and geometric nonlinear finite element models. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage guenter.hofstettter@uibk.ac.at
	Prof. Christoph Adam Christoph Adam is Professor of Applied Mechanics and head of the Unit of Applied Mechanics at the University of Innsbruck. His research interests include seismic safety of structures, modeling of linear and non-linear structures subjected to dynamic loads, structural vibration control, vibration propagation in buildings and soil, and vibration measurement and data interpretation in the lab and on-site. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage christoph.adam@uibk.ac.at
	Prof. Alexander Ostermann Alexander Ostermann is Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Chair of the Numerical Analysis Group and Dean of the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics. His research interests include numerical analysis and scientific computing, in particular: time integration of partial differential equations, exponential integrators, splitting methods, engineering mathematics, sensitivity analysis, and geometry. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage alexander.ostermann@uibk.ac.at
	Prof. Thomas Fahringer Thomas Fahringer is Professor of Computer Science and head of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck. He is chair of the Distributed and Parallel Systems Group. His research interests are in programming languages, performance tools, debuggers, compiler analysis and program optimisation based on advanced technologies such as genetic algorithms and machine learning. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage thomas.fahringer@uibk.ac.at
	Prof. Michael Oberguggenberger Michael Oberguggenberger is Professor of Engineering Mathematics and head of the Unit of Engineering Mathematics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Innsbruck. His research areas are partial differential equations, generalized functions, stochastic analysis, imprecise probability theory, risk and reliability, Monte Carlo simulations, engineering mathematics. Link to personal webpage Link to institute webpage michael.oberguggenberger@uibk.ac.at