ViCEM Award for the Best PhD Thesis – call for applications

30. October 2024
3rd call opened - deadline for applications January 24, 2025

Call for Applications

The Vienna Center for Engineering in Medicine, a cooperation center between TU Wien and MedUni Wien, announces the third ViCEM Award for the Best PhD Thesis in “Engineering in Medicine”.

Applications are requested for PhD thesis with a defense date not earlier than February 10, 2023 (previous application deadline) and not later than the current application deadline.

Applicants have to fulfill the following criteria:

obligatory criteria:

  • TU Wien and/or MedUni Wien involved
  • topic associated with “engineering in medicine”

further evaluation criteria:

  • scientific excellence with potential future impact on the broad international scale
  • involvement of both an engineering and medical supervisor
  • publications in inter-disciplinary international peer-reviewed journals
  • involvement in inter-disciplinary joint projects

The award is aimed at promoting and highlighting highly innovative PhD projects at the crossroads of engineering and medicine, and bestows a certificate and € 2,000 to the applicant.

Applications for the award need to include:

  1. filled in application form
  2. a pdf-copy of the PhD thesis
  3. letters of recommendation of the engineering and the medical supervisor
  4. publications

and have to be submitted to vicem@tuwien.ac.at by January 24, 2025, at the latest.

The ViCEM coordination team together with the ViCEM faculty will evaluate the applications and prepare a list of finalists. Those finalists will be invited to present their PhD thesis in the framework of a ViCEM event taking place in early Spring 2025.

ViCEM Best PhD Thesis Award - Application Form PDF502.77 KB