Secretary General: 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. He was the Focus Area Leader for Biomechanics and Modeling between 2021-2024. Since 2025, he is the Program Leader for Biomedical Development. He received his habilitation in 2021 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 140 scientific publications, one book chapter, and co-inventor of two patents and the online educational platform OSapp. Peter has been an ESB member since 2008.

Email to secretary.general@esbiomech.org