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% Acknowledge infrastructure and people that supported you in your thesis. This can also cover family, friends, etc.

I gratefully acknowledge my supervisor xxx for guiding me ... the technical team xxx, yyy, for the continuous support...

I thank my family and friends...

This thesis made use of the experimental setups, laboratory and technical infrastructure, general resources and observational facilities of the Institute of Physics of the University of Graz. This thesis also made use of infrastructure, which was supported by NAWI Graz. 


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\textit{Software:} \texttt{Python} \citep{10.5555/1593511}, 
\texttt{numpy} \citep{numpy,Harris_2020},  
\texttt{matplotlib} \citep{4160265},  
\texttt{scipy} \citep{2020SciPy-NMeth}, 
\texttt{pandas} \citep{reback2020pandas, mckinney-proc-scipy-2010}.
This research made use of \texttt{astropy} \citep{astropy:2013, astropy:2018}., a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy. 

% acknowledge FUNDING that you have received as financial support  

%acknowledge sources of funding like a travel grant or a Erasmus fellowship, e.g.:
I gratefully acknowledge the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P30949-N36 (PI: xxx) for supporting this project. 
This work was supported with funding of the Dr. Heinrich-Jörg Foundation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz.
The authors acknowledge the support from ERASMUS+ grant number 2017-1-CZ01-KA203-035562.