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Hatef Madani was appointed Principal Scientist at the Center for Energy of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology on 1 April 2025. In this position, he is responsible for the scientific management and international collaboration of an ambitious interdisciplinary research programme of the AIT and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Hatef Madani is researching the development of the next generation of sustainable heating systems for use in European urban areas and is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Thermodynamics, Department of Energy Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology wins first place in the prestigious Houska Prize, the largest private prize for applied research in Austria, in the non-university research category with the MEDUSA project (sustainable multi-megawatt fast charging on the medium-voltage grid). A second AIT project also received an award - the Mariella Schurz Prize honours "Electrical cell lysis for rapid antibiotic resistance tests". Both prizes honour practical research with high economic relevance.