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WU Awards 2025 - Outstanding research and teaching achievements by WU students and faculty

04. Dezember 2025

Excellence in the Spotlight The WU Awards put the spotlight on teachers and researchers whose achievements during the past year helped strengthen WU’s reputati

The success of researchers at WU is demonstrated through high-quality publications and the acquisition of competitive third-party funding. In order to recognize the outstanding research achievements of WU employees, the university awards prizes and awards annually.

Numerous researchers from the Institute were honored by the Rector's Office for their dedication and research achievements over the past year. The institute's awarded achievements can be found further below and under WU Awards 2025

Top publications in the WU Star Journal List

Star Journal publications are articles by WU researchers published in outstanding international journals. These journals are listed in WU’s Star Journal List.

  • Feinstein, Z., Hey, N., & Rudloff, B. (2024). Approximating the Set of Nash Equilibria for Convex Games. Operations Research. 10.1287/opre.2023.0541

  • Kook, L., Saengkyongam, S., Lundborg, A. R., Hothorn, T., & Peters, J. (2025). Model-Based Causal Feature Selection for General Response Types. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 120(550), 1090-1101. 10.1080/01621459.2024.2395588

  • Kook, L., Baumann, P. F. M., Dürr, O., Sick, B., & Rügamer, D. (2024). Estimating Conditional Distributions with Neural Networks Using R Package deeptrafo. Journal of Statistical Software, 111(10), 1-36. doi.org/10.18637/jss.v111.i10

Outstanding Research Achievements

WU awards bonuses to its researchers for publications in internationally renowned journals and other outstanding academic achievements.

  • Bajons, Robert for outstanding research achievements

  • Eisenberg, J., & Krühner, P. (2023). Measuring the suboptimality of dividend controls in a Brownian risk model. Advances in Applied Probability, 55(4), 1442-1472. doi.org/10.1017/apr.2023.6.

  • Damian, C., & Frey, R. (2024). Detecting rough volatility: a filtering approach. Quantitative Finance, 24(10), 1493-1508. 10.1080/14697688.2024.2399284

  • Sablica, L., Hornik, K., & Leydold, J. (2024). Efficient Sampling From the Watson Distribution in Arbitrary Dimensions. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. 10.1080/10618600.2024.2416521

  • Kook, Lucas for outstanding research achievements

  • Feinstein, Z., & Rudloff, B. (2024). Deep learning the efficient frontier of convex vector optimization problems. Journal of Global Optimization, 90(2), 429-458. doi.org/10.1007/s10898-024-01408-x

  • Sablica, Lukas for outstanding research achievements

Acquisition of third-party-fundin

These research projects carried out by WU researchers have been awarded third-party funding after undergoing rigorous international peer review.

  • Frey, R., Vienna Graduate School of Finance, FWF Austrian Science Fund

  • Hornik, K., Clusters of Excellence (COE) - Bilateral Artificial Inteligence, FWF Austrian Science Fund

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