Awards and Distinctions
Researchers at the University of Liechtenstein are recognised for their contributions with prestigious research prizes and awards at both national and international levels. The university places particular emphasis on supporting emerging talent. The Research Prize of the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Young Talents Programme, and participation in the Nobel Laureate Meeting offer promising early-career researchers valuable platforms for visibility and networking.
The Research Prize, endowed with CHF 10,000 and awarded by the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein, is presented annually to early-career researchers at the University of Liechtenstein for outstanding academic and research achievements. The prize is awarded in the categories of publication, dissertation, and project.
Since 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau have promoted dialogue across generations and cultures. The meeting of the Laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel takes place every three years. Since 2008, early-career researchers from Liechtenstein have regularly participated in the meetings.
The Young Talents Programme is an initiative to support early-career researchers, funded through the University of Liechtenstein’s Research Promotion Fund. Successful candidates receive funding to carry out their own research project.
2025
- Best Paper Award: Pajola, L., Caripoti, E., Banzer, S., Pizzi, S., Conti, M., & Apruzzese, G. (2025). E-PhishGEN: Unlocking Novel Research in Phishing Email Detection. Paper presented at the 18 th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security, Taipei, Taiwan
- Science Prize for Architecture of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers: Luis Hilti for his dissertation "Imagined Territories – Design Principles for Transformative Urbanism"
- 2025 Engle Prize in Financial Econometrcis: Gianluca De Nard for his article: "Oops! I Shrunk the Sample Covariance Matrix Again: Blockbuster Meets Shrinkage" (Journal of Financial Econometrics)
- AIS Best Information Systems Publications Award: Sagodi, A., van Giffen, B., Schniertshauer, J., Niehues, K., & vom Brocke, J. (2024). How Audi Scales Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing. Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive, 23(2).
- Information Fusion Best Paper Award 2025: Johannes Schneider and colleagues for their contribution “Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A Manifesto of Open Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research Directions” (Information Fusion (2024)).
- Best Responsible BPM Forum Paper Award 2025: Jungeun Lim, Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Xixi Lu, Jan Mendling, Minseok Song: The Impact of Event Data Partitioning on Privacy-aware Process Discovery
- Austrian Bankers Association Prize 2025: Bernhard Burtscher for his postdoctoral thesis Civil Law and Payment Transactions
- Max Beckmann Prize of the City of Frankfurt: Anna Heringer for her commitment to socially just, culturally rooted, and ecologically sustainable architecture
2024
- Outstanding Artist Award 2024: Martin Mackowitz is work in the category of Experimental Trends in Architecture
- Dick Marsh Award 2024: Marie Scheuffele, Niels Fetkenheuer und Leo Brecht at ISPIM Connects Porto Alegre in Brasilien for their conference paper "An Attempt at Data-Driven Validation of Early-Stage Technology Trends"
- Best Paper Award 2024: Johannes Schneider at the International Conference on Agents and Artifical Conference for his conference paper Efficient and Flexible Topic Modeling Using Pretrained Embeddings and Bag of Sentences
- BPM Industry Forum Paper Award: Ziche, C., & Apruzzese, G. (2024). LLM4PM: A Case Study on Using Large Language Models for Process Modeling in Enterprise Organizations. Paper presented at the International Conference on Business Process Management, Krakow, Poland
- Erasmus+ Award in the Category “Projects in Higher Education”: Martin Angerer and Alexander Walch for the Erasmus+ project Virtual and Hybrid Learning Environments
- Erasmus+ Award in the Category “Mobilities in Higher Education”: International Office for two mobility projects
2023
- Austrian Bankers Association Prize 2023: Patrick Raschner for his dissertation "Algorithm Governance in Capital Markets – Principles and Duties for the Proper and Fair Use of Algorithms in Stock Trading"
- Runner-up for the Best Paper Award: Draganovic, A., Dambra, S., Aldana louit, J., Roundy, K., & Apruzzese, G. (2023). "Do Users fall for Real Adversarial Phishing?" Investigating the Human response to Evasive Webpages. Paper presented at the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), Barcelona, Spain
2022
- Best Paper Award: Johannes Schneider, Christian Meske, Michalis Vlachos: Deceptive AI explanations: Creation and detection at the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 2022
- Architecture Research Award 2022 of the Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers (Austria): Clarissa Rhomberg for her thesis "Fair Building. A Discourse and Action Analysis of Social Responsibility in the Construction Process and Its Challenges for Internationally Practising Architects and Their Firms"
- I&F Family Wealth Preservation Award (2nd place): Marco Lettenbichler for his thesis as part of the "LL.M. Gesellschafts-, Stiftungs- und Trustrecht"