The BMFWF Award of Excellence is an annual prize awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research to recognise the most outstanding doctoral dissertations completed at Austrian universities. It honours exceptional scientific quality across all disciplines and highlights Austria’s commitment to supporting excellence in early-career research.
This year, Benjamin Wild was honoured with the Excellence Award for his PhD thesis “Safeguarding the ephemeral – photogrammetry for graffiti documentation“.
This award represents well-deserved national recognition of Benjamin’s doctoral research and his substantial contributions to the INDIGO project, including the development of AUTOGRAF, the graffiti change detection workflow and the accompanying INDIGO Change Detection Reference Dataset.

Photos: BMFWF / Martin Lusser – Photographie / martin@lusser.at

