Awards
1993:

award for excellent performance as a student granted by the Department of Civil Engineering of Vienna University of Technology

1996:

award for excellent performance as a student granted by the Department of Civil Engineering of Vienna University of Technology

2001:

elected member of Massachusetts Insitute of Technology Chapter of Sigma Xi, The Research Society

2004:

Kardinal Innitzer Advancement Award (Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis) of the Archbishopry of Vienna

2005:

Science Award of the Province of Lower Austria (Anerkennungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich für Wissenschaft)

2007:

Poster Award of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (together with C. Kober, B. Erdmann, R. Sader, H.-F. Zeilhofer)

2008:

Zienkiewicz Award for Young Scientists in Computational Engineering Sciences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)

2010:

ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC)

2011:

Member of Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Junge Kurie - ÖAW)

2012:

Walter L Huber Research Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

2014:

Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (F.EMI)

2017: Kajal Mallick Memorial Best Paper Award of the ICE - Institution of Civil Engineers, London (together with A. Dejaco, V. Komlev, J. Jaroszewicz, W. Swieszkowski); for refereed paper #104
2018: Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biological Engineering & Science (EAMBES)
2019: Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences