Educational and Deputy Awards: Philipp Thurner

TU Wien

Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics

Austria

Philipp Thurner is professor of biomechanics at the Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria. He holds an MSc in technical physics (Graz University of Technology, Austria) and a PhD in biomedical engineering and material science (ETH Zürich, Switzerland). He had postdoctoral training at the University of California Santa Barbara and San Francisco, before starting his own laboratory at the University of Southampton. In 2013 he was appointed Professor of Biomechanics at TU Wien. He co-organized ESB Annual Congress in Vienna in 2019 and served as one of three conference chairmen. His research focus is on the micro- and nano-biomechanics and mechanobiology of collagen-rich tissues with the aim to identify targets for diagnosis and treatment of age- and pathology-related degeneration. He is an ESB Member since 2010 and member of the ESB council since 2024.

Email to education.chair@esbiomech.org