The ASEM Workshop 2026 welcomed 177 participants—the largest workshop to date, with attendance growing year after year.
Congratulations to the Fritz-Grasenick Awardees:
- Irene Vercellino (Life Science): “SCAF1 drives the compositional diversity of mammalian respirasomes”
- Antonin Jaros (Material Science): “Sensing Spin Precession with Free Electrons”
The first-ever poster prizes and the imaging competition highlighted outstanding work across Austria’s electron microscopy community.
Poster Prize Winners:
- Best Life Science Poster Award — Ilja Ortner: Detection of Micro- and Nanoplastic (MNP) in winter wheat plants
- Best Materials Science Poster Award — Alexandra Wagner: Environment dependent local structure, charges transfer and optical conductivity of potassium-Intercalated Graphite by consecutive high-resolution EELS
Imaging Competition Winners
- 1st place — Sergei Bogdanov: Entangled Electron-Photon Pairs reveal the Ghost Image of a Cat.
- 2nd place – Florian Zrim: Crystallographic Rainbow
- 3rd place – Lena Reberz: A little FunGuy
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