Award for doctoral candidates funded by

The Impact.Award 2023 funded by the City of Vienna Cultural Affairs was given to eight active PhD students of the University of Vienna. The prize was awarded for outstanding dissertation projects with the potential to reach target groups outside the scientific community and to achieve social, cultural or economic added value.

The Awardees:

Raluca Chereji

Expert-to-Lay Communication: The Use of Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation Post-Editing (PEMT) in Translations for the Medical Domain

Impact:

Interview:

Catarina Martins Costa

From neuroepithelial morphogenesis to circuit formation: using organoid technologies to understand human brain development

Impact:

Interview:

Sophie Greistorfer

Glowing mucus - Characterization of the unique defence secretion of Latia neritoides (Gastropoda)

Article: (Rudolphina) Glowing snail mucus: The sticky future of biomaterials

Impact:

Interview:

Hayk Palabikyan

Converting carbon dioxide into bioplastics

Impact:

Julia Reiter

Political development between politicization and radicalization: Understanding and measuring adolescents' and young adults' unconventional political development and engagement

Impact:

Interview:

Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki

Science-Policy Interfaces for Ocean Protection

Interview: Presenting...portraits of early stage researchers: How science shapes UN negotiations: Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki explains her research

Impact:

Interview:

MacKenzie Trupp

Art and wellbeing – Examining the circumstances and mechanisms of art interventions

Impact:

Interview:

Claudia Wiesinger

Facilitating multilingual crisis communication: The applications of speech-enabled machine translation post-editing (PEMT) in crisis translation

Impact:

Interview:

We would like to thank our jurors of the expertjury:

Stefanie Beßler, Innovation & Community Lead, Social Impact Award (SIA) 

Sigrid Koloo, Impact Thinker, Founder of Koloo Projects 

Peter Kühne, program lead Innovative Solutions, Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS)  

Joao Matos, Prof. Dept. of Chromosome Biology, University of Vienna 

Benjamin Missbach, Program Management Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)  

Katharine Sarikakis, Prof. Department of Communication, University of Vienna 

Lucas Zinner, Head of Research Services and Career Development, University of Vienna