Successful Project Completion: Five Years of Excellence in Mathematical Research

After five years, the FWF doc.funds doctoral school concludes with an outstanding track record: Eleven successful PhDs, a strong gender balance, and extensive international networks mark the completion of this program. Read more →

Using new methods to predict economic development

When will inflation fall and when will economic growth accelerate? Luis Gruber, an early career researcher in Gregor Kastner’s research team at the Department of Statistics, is developing new statistical methods to help predict socially relevant topics such as economic development. It is important to note that statistics are not a crystal ball. We will not be able to predict the future with complete accuracy, which makes it all the more important to use new methods in order to demonstrate the degree of uncertainty associated with predictions.

Defensio by Iryna Vasylieva

Iryna Vasylieva successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Linearization of Contractive Random Dynamical Systems” on October 27, 2025.

Defensio by Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Iterative Decomposition Methods for Ill-Posed Problems” on September 15, 2025. He is the seventh doctoral candidate to graduate from doc.funds’ “Modeling-Analysis-Optimization of discrete, continuous and stochastic systems” doctoral program.