ViCEM Award for the Best Diploma Thesis

Call for applications

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

Previous recipients

2025 – Recipient:

Lukas Mitteregger: Technical-physiological interaction in the electrode-skin interface of a whole-body non-invasive neuromodulation device (Supervision: Winfried Mayr / TU Wien & MedUni Wien)

Finalists:

Laurin Xaver Koppenwallner: Focal stimulation of retinal ganglion cells using a custom short-pulse current stimulator (Supervision: Günter Zeck / TU Wien)

Jo Schoup: Two-component redox initiation systems for bone adhesives (Supervision: Stefan Baudis / TU Wien & Günter Russmüller / MedUni Wien)

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

2023 – Recipient:

Benedikt Baumgartner, Design of an adjustable temporary socket for a transradial prosthesis (Supervision: Eugenijus Kaniusas / TU Wien & Agnes Sturma / MedUni Wien)

Finalists:

Lorenz Faihs, Das CAM-Assay als experimentelles Modell für Effekte der Stoßwellentherapie auf die Angiogenese: eine Studie zur Bildanalyse durch künstliche Intelligenz (Supervision: Kurt Schicho / MedUni Wien & Peter Dungel / LBI Trauma)

Martin Bittner-Frank, A systematic approach for error reduction during image processing and 3D printing of bone fracture models (Supervision: Emir Benca & Francesco Moscato / MedUni Wien)

Fabian Grasser, Vascularization of human skin equivalents (Supervision: Heinz Redl / LBI Trauma)

Fabian Grasser, Finalist of ViCEM Diploma Thesis Award 2023 with ViCEM Coordinator Christian Hellmich
Lorenz Faihs, Finalist of ViCEM Diploma Thesis Award 2023 with ViCEM Coordinator Christian Hellmich
Martin Bittner-Frank, Finalist of ViCEM Diploma Thesis Award 2023 with ViCEM Coordinator Christian Hellmich
Benedikt Baumgartner, Winner of ViCEM Diploma Thesis Award 2023 with ViCEM Coordinator Christian Hellmich

2019 – Recipient:

Julia Böhm, Extrakorporale Stoßwellentherapie – Simulation elektrohydraulisch erzeugter Stoßwellen und deren Druckfelder bei Gewebeinteraktion (Supervision: Martina Marchetti-Deschmann/TU & Heinz Redl/MU)

Finalistis:

Sandra Barna, Beam model generation and validation for a high-end treatment planning system (Supervision: Dietmar Georg/TU & MU)

Silvia Schobesberger, Joint-on-a-chip: A rheumatoid arthritis disease model for drug screening (Supervision: Peter Ertl/TU & Hans P. Kiener/MU)

2018 – Recipient:

Michael Desch, Modifikationen eines Elektro-Spinning-Verfahrens zur Herstellung von Gefäßgrafts (Supervision: Heinrich Schima/ TU & MU)

Finalists:

Martin Elenkov, Detection of aortic hemodynamics in Electrical Impedance Tomography using functional regions of interest: investigation of in-vivo, in-silico and phantom measurements (Supervision: Eugenijus Kaniusas/TU & Stefan Böhme/MU)

Adham Rizk, Characterization and development of biocompatible and – degradable photopolymers for lithographybased additive manufacturing (Supervision: Jürgen Stampfl/TU & Gunther Russmüller/MU)

Winner Diploma Thesis Award with supervisor
Finalist of ViCEM Best Diploma Thesis Award 2018 with ViCEM representatives
Winner of ViCEM Best Diploma Thesis Award 2018 with ViCEM representatives
Finalist of ViCEM Best Diploma Thesis Award 2018 with ViCEM representatives

2017 – Recipient:

Daniel Mudrak, Preprocessing of computed tomography images for quantification of lung specific physiology and comparison to electrical impedance tomography (Supervision: Eugenijus Kaniusas/TU & Stefan Böhme/MU)

Finalists:

Narmada Ban, A novel design of a miniaturized minimal invasive probe for optical coherence tomography (Supervision: Winfried Mayr/TU & MU)

Simon Strehn, Mehrschichtige Streuphantome für die optische Kohärenztomographie (Supervision: Martin Gröschl/TU & Bernhard Baumann/MU)

Finalists and awardee, ViCEM coordinators
Awardee Daniel Mudrak with ViCEM Coordinators
Finalist Narmada Ban with ViCEM Coordinators
Finalist Simon Strehn with ViCEM Coordinators