Meetings and external affairs Committee: Peter Varga
AO Research Institute Davos
Switzerland
Peter Varga graduated as a civil engineer from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received his PhD in bone biomechanics from Technical University of Vienna in 2009. This work, supervised by Prof. Philippe Zysset, has been recognised with the “Award of Excellence 2010” of the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research. Following a further year spent in Vienna as post-doc researcher, he moved to the Julius Wolff Institute at the Charité UM Berlin where he focused on the microstructural analysis of bone using X-ray-based and ultrasound-related techniques as post-doc and Principal Investigator. In 2014, he joined the AO Research Institute Davos (ARI) as Senior Project Leader. Since 2020 he is the Focus Area Leader for Biomechanics and Modeling and since 2023 the Deputy Program Leader for Biomedical Development. In 2021 he received his habilitation by the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern, where he is teaching as Privatdozent for Biomedical Engineering. His current research interests include the biomechanics of bone fractures, implant fixations and healing, with special focus on computer simulations. He is the author of more than 110 scientific publications, one book chapter, and co-inventor of two patents and the online educational platform OSapp. He has been an ESB since 2008.
Email to meeting.chair@esbiomech.org