Franka Receives the Award of Excellence – National Prize for the Best Dissertations

Congratulations to Franka on her excellent dissertation “Efficient and Expressive Graph Learning” and for receiving the award!

Franka receiving the Award of Excellence.
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The “Award of Excellence” is given by the Austrian Ministry of Women, Science and Research (Bundesministerium Frauen, Wissenschaft und Forschung), to the best 40 dissertations of the last year.

Dr.techn. Franka Bause, BSc MSc completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science at TU Dortmund University. She finished her doctoral studies in Computer Science in 2025. Her dissertation was supervised by Assoz. Prof. Nils M. Kriege.

Image of the audience watching the award ceremony.
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Group photo of all award recipients from the University of Vienna.
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Full text of the dissertation