June 10, 2026

Marie Andeßner Awards and Scholarships 2026

Diversity, Innovation, and Excellence

The Marie Andeßner Awards and Scholarships are presented annually to recognize outstanding research achievements by early-career female researchers and to support promising dissertation projects. The program highlights academic excellence, provides targeted career support for early-career female researchers, and strengthens innovative research projects in the long term.

The 2026 call for applications once again generated a strong response: numerous applicants from various disciplines submitted outstanding work. The high quality and thematic diversity presented the interdisciplinary jury with a particularly challenging selection process.

June 2, 2026

Tijn de Vos was awarded the “Heinz Zemanek Prize 2026”

He impressed the jury with his outstanding dissertation: “Graph Sparsification in Distributed and Dynamic Settings".

The Heinz Zemanek Prize is a prestigious award from the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), named after the Austrian computer science pioneer (developer of the “Mailüfterl”). It honors exceptional scientific work and is typically awarded every two years in two categories:

• Category A (Dissertations): Honors outstanding doctoral theses. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros and may be shared between two nominees.

December 19, 2025

Antonis Skarlatos Successfully Defends PhD at University of Salzburg

On December 16, 2025, Antonis Skarlatos successfully defended his dissertation,

under supervision of Univ.-Prof. Sebastian Forster at the department of Computer Science, University of Salzburg. His dissertation is titled “Dynamic k-Clustering and Shortest Paths”.

We warmly congratulate Dr. Skarlatos on this achievement!

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December 17, 2025

Daniel Schmitt honored with the Young Investigators Award of the University of Salzburg

On the Day of Teaching, at the end of November 2025, Dipl.-Ing. BSc Daniel Ulrich Schmitt, one of our Ph.D. students, was honored with the University of Salzburg’s Young Investigators Award.

With this award, the University recognizes outstanding dissertation projects and sends a strong signal in support of emerging scholars and researchers.

The prize is awarded in six categories. These categories correspond to the six faculties and thus cover the broad spectrum of research at the University of Salzburg. From a total of 35 submissions, the juries selected first-, second-, and third-place winners in each thematic group.

December 17, 2025

Valedictory Prof. Hagenauer

After the well-deserved retirement of Prof. Hagenauer at the end of October 2025, the Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences—and in particular the Department of Computer Science—was very pleased to have the opportunity to listen to Prof. Hagenauer once more, on December 9, during his farewell lecture titled “Pilot Study – Regular Degree Programme – Bachelor/Master: Computer Science at the University of Salzburg in Retrospect.”

In his talk, he outlined the development of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg—from its beginnings within the Institute of Mathematics under the leadership of Prof. Zinterhof, through the pilot study program launched in 1988, the establishment of the regular degree program in 1995, and the subsequent introduction of both the doctoral program and the teacher training program “Computer Science and Computer Science Management” in 1998.

December 5, 2025

Dissertation prizes awarded for excellent research

Four young researchers were honored yesterday at the University of Salzburg for their outstanding dissertations. The University of Salzburg awarded this year’s dissertation prizes for excellent research in the “Stuba Academica.”

Four outstanding dissertations in the fields of natural sciences and social science were honored at a festive ceremony on Thursday, December 4, 2025.

The dissertation awards are presented annually by the “Verein Forschungsforum” , which supports young scientists and highlights their exceptional achievements. The university management offered their personal congratulations: Vice-Rector for Education and Student Experience Michaela Rückl, Eva Jonas (Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences), Ricarda Drüeke (Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences), and Sebastian Forster (Vice Dean of the Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences) were in attendance.