Winners of the Best Teaching Awards 2025

The Best Teacher Award was awarded university wide.

Best Teacher

Exceptionally committed lecturers at TU Wien were honored, with the overall commitment of each lecturer also being taken into account: 

•  Assistant Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Andreas Körner (Faculty for Mathematics and Geoinformation)
• Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Friedrich Bauer (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology)
• Assistant Prof. Mag.a rer.nat. Dr.in rer.nat. Margareta Wagner (Faculty of Physics)
• Ao.Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Senior Lecturer Rudolf Heuer (Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
• Senior Lecturer Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Stefan Podlipnig (Faculty of Informatics)

Special Award for Student-Centered Teaching

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Gottfried Mandlburger (Faculty for Mathematics and Geoinformation) was presented with the special award for student-centered teaching. 

The finalists are: 

• Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Friedrich Hubalek (Faculty for Mathematics and Geoinformation)
• Senior Scientist Dipl.-Ing.in Dr.in techn. Ines Nizic (Faculty of Architecture and Planning)
• Dr.techn. Dipl.-Arch. Ivica Brnic (Faculty of Architecture and Planning)
• Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Bernhard Gittenberger (Faculty for Mathematics and Geoinformation)

Best Lecture

This category honors exceptional lectures delivered by either a team of lecturers or an individual lecturer in the course of the 2024/25 academic year. The winners are: 

• 185.A91 - 2025W - Introduction to Programming 1 (Faculty of Informatics)
  Senior Lecturer Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Stefan Podlipnig, Senior Lecturer Dott.ric. Mauro Tempesta, Senior Lecturer Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Michael Reiter, Senior Lecturer Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Sebastian Zambanini, Senior Lecturer Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Dr.techn. Dietmar Schreiner,  Senior Lecturer Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Dr.techn. Jürgen Kogler, MSc, Senior Lecturer Mag.a rer.soc.oec. Dr.in rer.soc.oec. Marion Murzek,  Univ.Lektor Markus Angermann, MSc MBA, Univ.Lektor Dipl.-Ing. Nathaniel Boisgard, BSc
• 163.112 - 2024W - Fundamentals of Chemistry (Faculty of Technical Chemistry)
   Univ.Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.techn. Georg Steinhauser
• 120.109 - 2024W - Topographic and Hydrographic Models (Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation)
   Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Gottfried Mandlburger

The finalists are: 

• 186.866 - 2025S - Algorithms and Data Structures (Faculty of Informatics)
  Dr.techn. Martin Kronegger, Univ.Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.rer.nat. Stefan Szeider, Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Günther Raidl, Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Inform. Dr.rer.nat. Martin Nöllenburg und Team
• 192.134 - 2024W - Fundamentals of Digital Systems (Faculty of Informatics)
   Senior Lecturer Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Wolfgang Dvorak,  Assistant Prof. Dr.techn. Stefan Neumann, BSc MSc und Team
• 192.019 - 2025S - Introduction to Security (Faculty of Informatics)
  Univ.Prof. Matteo Maffei, Senior Lecturer Dott.ric. Mauro Tempesta, Senior Scientist Dott.ric. Marco Squarcina, Dr.techn. Lorenzo Veronese, Projektass. Simon Jeanteur, master
• 103.089 - 2024W - Practical Analysis I for Technical Physics (Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation)
  Assistant Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Andreas Körner BSc, Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Edthofer
• 384.194 - 2024W - Digital Systems (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology)
  Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Friedrich Bauer
• 165.087 - 2024W - Inorganic Chemistry I (Faculty of Technical Chemistry)
  Univ.Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.rer.nat. Dominik Eder 

Best Gender-Sensitive Teaching Award

• 251.867 - 2025S - Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte 2 (Faculty of Architecture and Planning)

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mag.phil. Dr.sc.ETH Harald R. Stühlinger, Univ.Ass.in Dipl.-Ing.in Mag.a phil. Theresa Knosp, BSc, Univ.Ass. Mihaly Andras Nemeth, M.A., Univ.Ass. Dr.phil. Thomas Moser, M.A. und Leonie Mühlegger, BSc MA

Recognition Award for Gender-Inclusive Teaching Innovation 

The cluster of courses entitled “Sex and Space” (Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning) was awarded the Recognition Prize for Gender-Inclusive Teaching Innovation. The cluster consists of three courses:

• 251.883 - 2024W - Optional seminar: Monument + City (Univ.Ass.in Dr.in phil. Sophie Stackmann, M.A.)
• 251.872 - 2024W - Elective seminar: Art History Project (Univ.Ass.in Dipl.-Ing.in Mag.a phil. Theresa Knosp, BSc, Univ.Ass. Dr.phil. Thomas Moser, M.A.)
• 253.L78 - 2024W - Design Studio Taboo City Spaces – Queer Feminist Learning from Heritage (Arch.in Mag.a arch. Julia Nuler)  

The finalists are: 

• 253.L78 - 2025S - Interface und Interaction Design (Faculty of Informatics)

 Univ.Prof.in Jessica Rebecca Cauchard, PhD, Univ.Ass. Robin Gerard Bretin, PhD, Univ.Ass. Robin Dheilly, Ing.dipl., Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Tom Lautenbach, Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Inf. Dr.sc.techn. Florian Michahelles

Best Teacher at TU Wien Academy

•  Dr. Christian Kreuzer
  CIS / Data-Driven Business MBA (Lehrveranstaltung: Business Simulation)

The finalists are: 

•  Univ.Prof. MMag. Dr. Wolfgang Güttel
  CIS / Data-Driven Business MBA (Lehrveranstaltung: Organizational Behavior & Leadership Basics (Leading Yourself))
• Prof. Florian Bauer
  Strategic Management & Technology (Lehrveranstaltung: Strategic Technology Management & Acquisitions)

Quality Labels for Excellent Teaching were also presented for the first time as part of the Best Teaching Awards ceremony. Based on a clearly defined and publicly available list of criteria, courses that meet the required standards are awarded the quality label. It is displayed directly in TISS alongside the course titel and is valid for three years. The criteria are re-examined for renewal, thus ensuring that quality standards are consistently met. The idea was developed and implemented by Shabnam Tauböck.

The following courses obtained a quality label: 

• VU Autonomous Racing Cars (Andreas Brandstätter, Grosu Radu)
• LU Chemische Technologien (Thomas Konegger, Christian Edtmaier, Christian Gierl-Mayer, Raquel De Oro Calderon)
• VO Grundlagen der Chemie (Georg Steinhauser)
• UE Entwerfen: Reimaging Rural Downtowns - Rohrbach Berg (Julia Forster, Stefan Bindreiter, Linda Dörrzapf, Andreas Voigt)
• PR Räumliche Entwicklungsplanung – St. Paul im Lavanttal (Andreas Voigt, Werner Tschirk, Amila Smajlovic-Pleschberger, Helene Linzer, Bardo Hörl, Johann Bröthaler, Antonia Schneider, Arnold Faller)
• PR Raumwerkstatt (Kurt Weninger, Hartmut Dumke, Petra Hirschler, Andreas Voigt, Michael Kubik, Johanna Gassner, Anna Caroline Aigner, Madlyn - Anna Miessgang, Lisa Steiner, Stefan Klingler, Andrea Mann, Nina Cosmea Mayerhofer)
• VO Lineare Algebra für Technische Physiker_innen (Andreas Körner)
• UE Lineare Algebra für Technische Physiker_innen (Andreas Körner, Clara Horvath)
• VU Praktische Mathematik für Technische Physiker_innen (Andreas Körner, Alexander Edthofer)

Students who nominated teachers or courses for the Best Teaching Awards were for the first time automatically entered into a prize draw. Six TU Wien hoodies, 3x2 tickets for the TU Ball, and a laptop were raffled off. The winners are:

• Adel Tleuova (Hoodie)
• Clemens Fröhlich (Hoodie)
• Elias Mutzl (Hoodie)
• Iana Ianushevskaia (Hoodie)
• Tessa Pulli (Hoodie)
• Philipp Elias Noah Simlinger (Hoodie)
• Bikramjit Chowdhury (TU Ball tickets)
• Dilara Çakmak (TU Ball tickets)
• Johanna Erber (TU Ball tickets)
• Jia Xin Liang (Laptop)

These were the Best Teaching Awards 2025!