Young Investigators Award

The objective of the Young Investigator Award is to honor and support up-coming researchers at the university of Salzburg. During this event early career scientists have the opportunity to present their scientific work and compete with each other for prizes awarded to the best 9 presentations.
The evaluation & presentation is performed in three topic areas: 

• LAW & ECONOMICS       
• ARTS & HUMANITIES      
• NATURAL & LIFE SCIENCES

Within the three topic groups prizes will be awarded to the best 3 presentations:

• 1st prize: € 300         
• 2nd prize: € 200        
• 3rd prize: € 100

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Young Investigators Award Winners 2018

ARTS & HUMANITIES	Mag. Patrick Kutschar	Datenqualität standardisierter Umfragen bei alten und hochaltrigen Menschen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen
LAW & ECONOMICS	MMag. Markus Tiefenbacher	Labor supply responses and second-order distributional effects of the Austrian parental tax deduction
NATURAL & LIFE SCIENCES	Georg Zimmermann, MSc	Statistical analyses of data from studies on rare diseases: Just re-inventing the wheel, or is there really need for refinements?

ARTS & HUMANITIES	Mag. Robert Obermair	Oswald Menghin – Politicisation of science in the 1930s and beyond
LAW & ECONOMICS	Dr. Ulrich Palma	Alternative Finanzierung – Crowdinvesting in Österreich
NATURAL & LIFE SCIENCES	Dr. Julia Reichenberger Ovidiu Csillik, MSc	How negative can positivity be? – When positive evaluations are feared Spatio-temporal object-based image analysis for mapping agriculture

Ovidiu Csillik, Robert Obermair, Rektor Heinrich Schmidinger, Julia Reichenberger, Ulrich Palma

ARTS & HUMANITIES	Pia Schoknecht, MA	Interferenz während des Sprachverstehens
LAW & ECONOMICS	Markus Ellmer, MSc	What do multinational companies (MNCs) expect from their (future) employees? An exploration of employer branding messages on Facebook

Markus Ellmer, Rektor Heinrich Schmidinger, Pia Schoknecht

Fotonachweis: Andreas Kolarik