ViCEM Award for the Best PhD Thesis

Call for applications

The next call for applications is planned for end of 2026.

Previous recipients

2025 – Recipient:

Carina Hromada: Tissue engineering strategies to improve peripheral nerve regeneration (Supervision: Andreas Teuschl-Woller / TU Wien)

Finalists:

Patrick Heimel: Contrast enhanced μCT of peripheral nerve and spinal cord (Supervision: Heinz Redl / TU Wien, LBI Trauma & David Hercher / LBI Trauma)

Erik Kornfellner: Biomechanics, design and tests of multimaterials for additively manufactured implants (Supervision: Francesco Moscato / MedUni Wien & Stefan Scheiner / TU Wien)

ViCEM PhD Thesis Award 2025 Winner with ViCEM Coordinators
ViCEM PhD Thesis Award 2025 Winner & Finalists with ViCEM Coordinators
ViCEM PhD Thesis Award 2025 Winner & Finalists with ViCEM Coordinators
Participants of ViCEM Diploma Thesis & PhD Thesis Award 2025

2023 – Recipient:

Katharina Ehrmann, Development of thermoplastic elastomers for cardiovascular tissue regeneration (Supervision: Robert Liska & Stefan Baudis / TU Wien & Helga Bergmeister / MedUni Wien)

Finalists:

Patrick Steinbauer, Photopolymerizable adhesives for bone healing (Supervision: Stefan Baudis & Robert Liska / TU Wien & Günter Russmüller / MedUni Wien)

Philipp Aigner, Studies on the fluid mechanical causes of thrombus formation during the use of mechanical cardiac assist devices (Supervision: Heinrich Schima / MedUni Wien & Daniel Zimpfer / MedUni Graz)

Patrick Steinbauer, Finalist of ViCEM PhD Thesis Award 2023 with ViCEM Coordinator Christian Hellmich
Katharina Ehrmann, Winner of ViCEM PhD Thesis Award 2023 with ViCEM Coordinator Christian Hellmich
Philipp Aigner, Finalist of ViCEM PhD Thesis Award 2023 with ViCEM Coordinator Christian Hellmich

2019 – Recipient:

Emir Benca, Fracture load prediction in patients with metastatic lesions in the femur using finite element analysis (Supervision: Dieter Pahr (TU) & Winfried Mayr, Reinhard Windhager (MU))

Finalists:

Sonja Baumgartner, Development of a 3D-printing process for colored dental ceramics and selective modification of polymers (Supervision: Jürgen Stampfl ( TU) & Andreas Schedle (MU))

Florian Thürk, Individualization and optimization of electrical impedance tomography and improvement of biosignal management and analysis in the clinical setting (Supervision: Eugenijus Kaniusasl ( TU) & Stefan Böhme (MU))

Winner of Best PhD Thesis Award 2019 with supervisors
Winner and finalists of ViCEM Best PhD Thesis Award 2019 with ViCEM respresentatives, supervisors, and representative of sponsor Cubicure
Winner and finalists of ViCEM Best PhD Thesis Award 2019 with ViCEM respresentative, and representative of sponsor Cubicure
Winner and finalists of ViCEM Best PhD Thesis Award 2019
Florian Thürk, finalist of ViCEM Best PhD Thesis Award 2019 with ViCEM respresentative, and representative of sponsor Cubicure
Emir Benca, winner of ViCEM Best PhD Thesis Award 2019 with ViCEM respresentative, and representative of sponsor Cubicure
Sonja Baumgartner, finalist of ViCEM Best PhD Thesis Award 2019 with ViCEM respresentative, and representative of sponsor Cubicure