Physicist who left Los Alamos National Laboratory for the University of Vienna, Austria

Bianka Mecaj

Particle Physics

RESEARCH FIELD

Particle Physics

Education

University of Tirana

B.S.

Physics

,

2014

University of Maribor

B.S.

Physics

,

2015

ETH Zürich

M.S.

Elementary Particle Physics

,

2017

École Polytechnique

M.S.

Elementary Particle Physics

,

2017

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Ph.D

Theoretical Physics

,

2021

Summary

Bianka Mecaj is a physicist who left Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US to join the University of Vienna in Austria in early 2026, one of eight US-based researchers recruited by the university with funding split between University of Vienna resources and the APART-USA fellowship program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

CURRENT AFFILIATION

University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Recruitment Program

APART-USA Fellowship Program (Austria)