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
The impact of Raluca Chereji's research:
Catarina Martins Costa
From neuroepithelial morphogenesis to circuit formation: using organoid technologies to understand human brain development
The impact of Catarina Martins Costa's research:
Sophie Greistorfer
Glowing mucus - Characterization of the unique defence secretion of Latia neritoides (Gastropoda)
Article: (Rudolphina) Glowing snail mucus: The sticky future of biomaterials
The impact of Sophie Greistorfer's research:
Hayk Palabikyan
Converting carbon dioxide into bioplastics
The impact of Hayk Palabikyan's research:
Julia Reiter
Political development between politicization and radicalization: Understanding and measuring adolescents' and young adults' unconventional political development and engagement
The impact of Julia Reiter's research:
Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki
Science-Policy Interfaces for Ocean Protection
The impact of Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki's research:
MacKenzie Trupp
Art and wellbeing – Examining the circumstances and mechanisms of art interventions
Interview: Presenting...portraits of early stage researchers: Art and Wellbeing: Exploring the Power of Art
The impact of MacKenzie Trupp's research:
Claudia Wiesinger
Facilitating multilingual crisis communication: The applications of speech-enabled machine translation post-editing (PEMT) in crisis translation
The impact of Claudia Wiesinger's research:
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