Mag. Dr. rer. nat. Christiane Lechner

Senior Researcher

Computational Fluid Mechanics Group

Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer

TU Wien

Getreidemarkt 9 / Raum: BA 07 G08

1060 Wien, Austria

Tel.: +43 1 58801 / 32211

Fax : +43 1 58801 / 32299

e-mail: christiane.lechner@tuwien.ac.at

since 09/2021

principal investigator (PI) at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, TU Wien

since 05/2026

project ''Single cavitation bubbles: 3D dynamics with phase transition'' (FWF project PIN1966625),

09/2025 -- 04/2026

internal project

09/2021 -- 08/2025

project ''Complex dynamics of cavitation bubbles'' (FWF project I 5349-N)

09/2017 -- 10/2020

Senior post-doc (DFG project Me 1645/8-1) at the DPI, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

02/2013 -- 04/2016

PI at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, TU Wien, scientific collaboration with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cavitation and Micro-Erosion (DPI, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)

04/2009 -- 04/2016

Project/university assistant, senior post-doc at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

08/2005 -- 07/2008

Research associate at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Berlin, Germany

02/2005 – 07/2005

Visitor to the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert-Einstein-Institute (AEI), Golm, Germany

11/2001 – 12/2004

Research associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, Albert-Einstein-Institute (AEI), Golm, Germany

Oct. 2001

PhD in theoretical physics, subject general relativity, University of Vienna, Austria

05/1998 – 06/2001

Stipend/research associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna, Austria

May 1998

Diploma in physics, University of Vienna, Austria