Thesis Awards
Each year, the research area Scientific Computing awards a prize for an excellent master’s thesis and a PhD thesis in the field of scientific computing with a focus on high performance computing, and preferably with a highly interdisciplinary orientation. The award goes to a
- master's thesis (EUR 500)
- doctoral thesis (EUR 1000)
at the University of Innsbruck and is relevant for the research area Scientific Computing (e.g. in terms of computational engineering, computer science or high performance computing). Currently the submissions for the thesis awards 2024 are under evaluation. Next call will be 2025.
Awards 2023
Matthias Rauter
Doctoral Thesis
Computational Modelling of Snow Avalanches in Natural Terrain
Supervisors: Wolfgang Fellin, Institute for Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck; Julia Kowalski, Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science, Georesources and Materials Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
Andreas Rauchöcker
Master's Thesis
Characteristics of a cold air pool near Seefeld, Austria: Numerical modeling results
Supervisor: Manuela Lehner, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck
Awards 2022
Anna Albertini
Doctoral Thesis
Conformational Ensembles Determine Biophysical Properties
Supervisors: Klaus Liedl, Institute of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck; Sereina Riniker, Computational Chemistry, ETH Zurich; Brian Shoichet, School of Pharmacy, UCSF
Manuel Saigger
Master's Thesis
Is it North or West Foehn? A Lagrangian Analysis of PIANO IOP 1
Supervisor: Alexander Gohm, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck
Award 2021
Benjamin Hirzinger
Doctoral Thesis
Contributions to Modeling and Reliability Assessment Strategies in Railway Bridge Dynamics
Supervisors: Christoph Adam, Unit of Applied Mechanics, Department of Basic Sciences in Engineering Sciences, University of Innsbruck; Michael Oberguggenberger, Unit of Technical Mathematics, Department of Basic Sciences in Engineering Sciences, University of Innsbruck
Award 2020
Brigitta Goger
Doctoral Thesis
Evaluation of a High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model in Complex Terrain
Supervisors: Mathias Rotach and Alexander Gohm, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck; Oliver Fuhrer, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich
Award 2019
Daniel Winkler
Doctoral Thesis
Computational aspects of particle methods in environmental fluid mechanics
Supervisor: Wolfgang Rauch, Department for Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck
Award 2018
Markus Held
Doctoral Thesis
Full-F gyro-fluid modelling of the tokamak edge and scrape-off layer
Supervisor: Alexander Kendl, Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck
Award 2017
Federico Covi
Master's Thesis
Assessing precipitation mechanisms on Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya: an idealized modeling study
Supervisors: Alexander Gohm and Georg Kaser, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Innsbruck
Awards 2016
Matthias Wiesenberger
Doctoral Thesis
Gyrofluid computations of filament dynamics in tokamak scrape-off layers
Supervisor: Alexander Kendl, Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck
Matthias Rauter
Master's Thesis
A novel basal friction model for snow avalanches
Supervisor: Wolfgang Fellin, Department of Infrastructure, University of Innsbruck
Award 2015
Julian Fuchs
Doctoral Thesis
Local dynamics in protein function and specificity
Supervisor: Klaus Liedl, Department for General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
Awards 2011
Bernhard Valentini
Doctoral Thesis
A three-dimensional constitutive model for concrete and its application to large scale finite element analyses
Supervisor: Günter Hofstetter, Department of Engineering Science, University of Innsbruck
Roland Huber
Master's Thesis
Entropy estimation from molecular dynamics ensembles
Supervisor: Klaus Liedl, Department for General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck
Awards 2010
David Geisler-Moroder
Doctoral Thesis
Accuracy improvements for computational methods and color rendering index calculations in global illumination models
Supvervisor: Arne Dür, Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck
Marcel Ritter
Master's Thesis
Computing geodesics in numerical space times
Supervisor: Sabine Schindler, Department of Astro- and Particle Physics, University of Innsbruck
Awards 2009
Andreas Mauracher
Doctoral Thesis
Theoretical and experimental investigations of electron attachment to biomolecules
Supervisor: Michael Probst, Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck
