The Vienna University of Technology (TUW) is the largest university in Austria for engineering sciences. It is a public university with about 28.000 students, funded by the Austrian Federal Government. It is organized in 8 faculties: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Technical Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Informatics, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics.
TUW is involved in many international and national research projects focussed on different topics related to the expertise of each faculty. It has experience in coordinating EC-projects.
The Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics (Atominstitut) is part of the Faculty of Physics of the TUW. Currently, 25 university positions for scientific personnel, 29 for non-scientific personnel and about 50 doctoral and diploma students are working at the Atominstitut. The research and training possibilities are grouped around a 250 kW TRIGA research reactor and include x-ray and accelerator installations, quantum optic equipment and highly specialised chemistry and physics laboratories. The institute is participating in a doctorial college programme and has a permanently occupied foreign post at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble. The broad spectrum of research fields represented at the Atominstitut provides a fertile environment for productive scientific collaboration. A strong "bottom-up" structure has guaranteed a development towards innovative areas of research. In particular there is internationally recognised expertise in the field of Nuclear Physics both in theory and experiment.
Relevant experience
The research groups at the Atominstitut are well integrated in the international research. Especially, they have successfully participated in several EC and EURATOM contracts, in some of them serving as coordinator. Apart from participation in European and national projects members of the Atominstitut are actively involved in various activities of international organisations, e.g. in the International Nuclear Data Centres (OECD/NEA and IAEA/NDS).
Role and main tasks
TUW will participate in the CHANDA project in WP9 of DMC, coordinating task 9.3 on Uncertainty Methods. This role is based on the expertise in the development of uncertainty determinations in nuclear data.
Scientific and technical personnel involved
- Univ. Prof. Dr. Helmut Leeb: Associate Professor at the Atominstitut since 1986 specialised in Theoretical Nuclear Physics. His scientific activities are focussed on Scattering and Reaction Theory and its application to Nuclear and Neutron Physics; with more than 150 scientific articles on Nuclear and Neutron Physics in international journals. He has given over 250 talks at universities, research institutes and conferences. He is Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Physics of the TUW; member of the Subcommittee 3 "Nuclear and Particle Physics" of the ILL Scientific Council; member of the Isolde and Neutron Time-of-Flight Experiments Committee (INTC) at CERN; Austrian delegate in the Nuclear Science Committee of OECD/NEA; leader of several research projects supported by Austrian funding agencies and participant in several EC-projects, in particular, coordinator of the Network PANSI3 within EURONS; participant in 3 EFDA projects, 2 F4E grants and the EURATOM projects ANDES, IP_EUROTRANS and n_TOF-ND-ADS.