Thesis Awards 2025
This year, the Research Area Scientific Computing will again award a prize for an outstanding master's and doctoral thesis in the field of scientific computing with a focus on high-performance computing, preferably with a strong interdisciplinary orientation. The prize goes to
- master's thesis (EUR 500)
- doctoral thesis (EUR 1000)
completed at the University of Innsbruck in 2024 (deadline: day of defensio) and related to the research area scientific computing (e.g. in the sense of computational engineering, computer science or high performance computing). Applications (an informal cover letter, a pdf of the original thesis, a pdf of the transcript of the thesis) should be sent electronically to scientific-computing@uibk.ac.at no later than July 4, 2025.
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Awards 2024
Alexander Moriggl
Doctoral Thesis
Efficient parallel algorithms for modern GPU-equipped high-performance computing systems
Supervisors: Lukas Einkemmer, Institute for Mathematics, University of Innsbruck; Alexander Ostermann, Institute for Mathematics, University of Innsbruck
Paolo Deidda
Master's Thesis
On the effect of tributary valleys on thermally driven winds in the main valley: a case study in the Inn Valley
Supervisor: Alexander Gohm, Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck
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
