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Mira Maiwöger, MSc

Mira Maiwöger

Job Description:

Lecturer / Phsyicist

My educational path:

  • Physics studies (BSc and MSc) at the University of Vienna
  • Master thesis at the Technical University Vienna (TU) with Jörg Schmiedmayer: Title (Towards multiple measurements of a single Bose-Einstein condensate by coherent outcoupling).
  • Doctoral studies at the Technical University Vienna (TU), project assistant in the group of Jörg Schmiedmayer, focus on experimental quantum optics: ultracold atoms, Bose-Einstein condensates, atom-light interaction (doctorate not yet completed)

What makes it interesting for me?

Quantum physics simply fascinates me; many quantum physical phenomena clash with our classical intuition.
Nevertheless, we can describe them mathematically and understand them with experiments.

Why do I work in this job?

I really enjoy thinking about (quantum) physics again and again in a new way.
When teaching and in contact with students who are new to the field, I am often confronted with questions that make me think again myself.

Why me?

I take students seriously and try to treat them as equals.

This is the advice I would give to my 15 year old self:

It’s good the way you are, no one is perfect.