Contact & Facts

Institut für Angewandte Physik , Technische Universität Wien
(formerly “Institut für Allgemeine Physik”; name changed Oct. 1st, 2009)

Address: Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/134, 1040 Wien, Austria
The CMS group is currently located at Makartvilla, Gußhausstraße 25-25a/134, 1040 Wien, Austria

Phone: (+43-1) 58801 - 13401 (Secretary) ⋅ Fax: (+43-1) 58801 - 13499
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If you want to visit us, see the How to Get Here page.

• Annual Report 2010 (1.5 MB)
• Previous Annual Reports: 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
• IAP-Folder (in German)

The staff of the IAP currently (2009) consists of 12 professors, 3 senior scientists (1 of them presently on leave of absence), 5 postdocs, and 18 PhD students employed as research assistents at the IAP, as well as 9 persons in administration and the institute's workshops.

• Poster
• Telephone & email directory
• white pages

Institute's director: Prof. H. Störi
Vice-directors: Prof. F. Aumayr, Prof. U. Diebold

Scientific work is carried out within six Research Groups:

• atomic (Head Prof. F. Aumayr)
• Biophysics (Head Prof. G. Schütz)
• Computational Materials Science (Head Prof. P. Mohn)
• Sensors (Head Prof. M. Gröschl)
• opt (Head Prof. W. Werner)
• surface (Head Prof. U. Diebold)

The IAP can also rely on its own workshops for electronics and mechanical engineering, greatly facilitating all experimental work.

The IAP logo, based on an idea by late Prof. Hannspeter Winter, includes the letters “i” (center), “a” (left), and “p” (right), while at the same time forming the Greek letter Φ (phi), often used as a symbol for physics.

The institute was founded in 1966 as Institut für Experimentalphysik II at the Vienna University of Technology and renamed 1975 to Institut für Allgemeine Physik. The institute's first director was Prof. Franz Viehböck (1966 - 1987). From 1987 till November 2006 the institute was headed by Prof. Hannspeter Winter. In December 2006, Prof. Herbert Störi was appointed as director of the IAP. On Oct. 1st, 2009 IAP was renamed to “Institute of Applied Physics”.