The Start-Preis is the highest Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n award for scientist

Scientist

A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...

s under the age of 35.

It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund

Austrian Science Fund

The Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung is the most important Austrian funding organization for basic research. The FWF supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities through a large variety of grant programmes, prizes and by funding infrastructure...

 on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science.
It is endowed with up to 1.2 million Euro for a proposed research project for six years.

The recipients are selected by an international jury of experts. The same jury also selects the recipients of the related Wittgenstein-Preis

Wittgenstein-Preis

The Wittgenstein-Preis is the highest Austrian science award.It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science.The prize money of 1.5 million euro is tied to research activities in the following six years....

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Recipients

1996

• Christian Koeberl
• Ferenc Krausz
  Ferenc Krausz
  Ferenc Krausz is a Hungarian-Austrian physicist, whose research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons’ motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics.....
  
  
• Ulrich Schmid
• Peter Szmolyan
• Karl Unterrainer
• Harald Weinfurter
• Gerhard Woeginger
• Jakob Woisetschläger

1997

• Gerhard Holzapfel
• Bernhard Palme
• Michael Schmid

1998

• Peter Grabner
• Gottfried Kirchengast
• Rudolf Valenta
• Gerhard Widmer

1999

• Christoph Marschner
• Norbert Mauser
• Otmar Scherzer
• Thomas Schrefl
  Thomas Schrefl
  Thomas Schrefl is an Austrian physicist. Currently he is Professor of Communications & Simulation Engineering at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. Between 2004 and 2008 he was Professor of Functional Materials at the University of Sheffield...
  
  
• Christoph Spötl
• Joseph Strauss

2000

• Thomas Brabec
• Susanne Kalss
• Dietrich Leibfried
• Herbert Strobl
• Bernhard Tilg

2001

• Markus Arndt
• Michael Buchmeiser
• Wolfgang Drexler
• Wilfried Ellmeier
• Clemens Sedmak

2002

• Wolfgang Heiss
• Michael Jursa
• Georg Schett
• Dieter Schmalstieg
• Joachim Schöberl

2003

• Georg Kresse
• Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
• Andreas Villunger

2004

• Thomas Bachner
• Michael Kunzinger
• Vassil Palankovski
• Thomas Prohaska
• Gerhard Schütz

2005

• Michael Hintermüller
• Matthias Horn
• Andrea Lusser
• Michael Moser
• Norbert Zimmermann

2006

• Hartmut Häffner
• Norbert Polacek
• Piet Schmidt
• Josef Teichmann
• Gerald Teschl
  Gerald Teschl
  Gerald Teschl is an Austrian mathematical physicist and Professor of Mathematics.He is working in the area of mathematical physics; in particular direct and inverse spectral theory with application to completely integrable partial differential equations .-Career:After studying physics at the Graz...
  
  

2007

• Kathrin Breuker
• Thomas Bugnyar
• Otfried Gühne
• Bernhard Lamel
• Thomas Lörting
• Paul Mayrhofer
• Sigrid Wadauer
• Thomas Wallnig

2008

• Markus Aspelmeyer
  Markus Aspelmeyer
  Markus Aspelmeyer is a German quantum physicist.Aspelmeyer was born 1974 in the Bavarian town Schongau. He also attended the local school, where he received his abitur in 1993....
  
  
• Tom J. Battin
• Massimo Fornasier
• Daniel Grumiller
• Alexander Kendl
• Karel Riha
• Kristin Tessmar-Raible
• Christina Waldsich

2009

• Francesca Ferlaino
• Ilse Fischer
• Arthur Kaser
• Manuel Kauers
• Thorsten Schumm
• David Teis

2010

• Julius Brennecke
• Barbara Horejs
• Barbara Kraus
• Melanie Malzahn
• Florian Schreck
• Bojan Zagrovic

2011

• Peter Balazs (mathematician)
  Peter Balazs (mathematician)
  Peter Balazs is an Austrian mathematician working at the Acoustics Research Institute Vienna of the Austrian Academy of Sciences....
  
  
• Thomas Müller
• Agata Ciabattoni
• Peter Rabl
• Sebastian Diehl
• Michael Sixt
• Alwin Köhler
• Philip Walther

External links

• START-Preis page of the Austrian Science Fund
• START-Portal (web page with information on recipients)