Doctoral Awards at the CIT Graduation Ceremony 2025

The award winners were selected by the CIT Award Committee from all doctoral candidates who completed their doctorates at our school between 15 July 2023 and 30 September 2024 with top marks. Congratulations!

Departmental dissertation prizes

Winner in Computer Engineering: Dr Karl Tasnad Kernetzky with his thesis ‘Numerical Optimisation of Ultra-Broadband Wavelength Conversion in Nonlinear Optical Waveguides’

Winner in Computer Science: Dr Patrick Lederer with his thesis ‘Strategic Manipulation in Social Choice Theory’

Winner in Electrical Engineering: Dr Lennart Weiß with his thesis ‘Stochastic Detection of Silver Nanoparticles for Sensing Applications’

Winner in Mathematics: Dr Konstantin Riedl with his thesis ‘Mathematical Foundations of Interacting Multi-Particle Systems for Optimisation’

Dr Georg Spinner High Frequency Prize for Doctoral Students

Winner: D., Christian Buchberger with his thesis ‘On the Scattering Behaviour of Dielectric Corner Reflectors in Distributed Radar Systems’

Doctoral Prize from Rohde & Schwarz

Winner: Dr Jonas Wurst with his thesis ‘Domain Knowledge Guided Representation Learning for Traffic Scenarios’

Kurt Fischer Dissertation Prize

Winner: Dr Kevin Yu with his thesis ‘Advanced 3D UI for Immersive AR/VR Medical Teleconsultation’

Walter Gademann Doctoral Award

Winner: Dr Christina Maria Mayr with her thesis ‘Crowd management based on direct communication technology’