Educational and Deputy Awards: Philipp Thurner
TU-Wien
Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics
Austria
Philipp Thurner obtained an MSc degree in technical physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and a PhD in biomedical engineering and material science at ETH Zürich under the supervision of Prof. Ralph Müller. He did his postdoctoral training as a fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Paul Hansma at the University of California Santa Barbara, for which he was awarded a total of two fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and in the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of California San Francisco where he worked with Prof. Tamara Alliston.
In 2007 he started his own laboratory at the University of Southampton as a lecturer, where he was promoted to Reader and Full Professor, before accepting the call to become Professor of Biomechanics at TU Wien, where he also served as Dean of Academic Affairs for the MSc Programm Biomedical Engineering from 2013-2019. He also co-organized and served as one of three conference chairmen for the ESB Annual Congress in Vienna in 2019. His current research focus is on the micro- and nanomechanics of collagen-rich tissues with the aim to identify targets for diagnosis and treatment of age- and pathology-related degeneration. He has so far published over 100 peer- reviewed scientific papers and is an ESB Member since 2010.
Email to education.chair@esbiomech.org