Awards and Fellowships
| 2023 | Falling Walls Award, Art & Science Category |
| 2023 | Fellowship Institute of Digital Sciences Austria / Ars Electronica |
| 2020 | Best Paper award 2020, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications |
| 2019 | Princeton-Mellon Fellowship, Princeton University |
| 2018 | Kantar: Information is Beautiful Awards, Short List, 2018 |
| Beryl Radin Award (honorable mention) for the Best Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) | |
| 2017 | Austrian Scientists in North America (ASciNA) Award 2017, Austrian Ministry for Science & Research, category Young Principal Investigator |
| Typography Award, Communication Arts Magazine | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Dissertation Award, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT |
| 2013 | Paper of the Year 2012, Journal of the American Planning Association |
| 2012 | Finalist for the Katerva Sustainability Innovation Award |
| 2011 | NSF International Visualization Challenge, Winner Category Non-Interactive Visualization (Trash | Track) |
| MIT Carroll L. Wilson Fellowship Award 2011 | |
| 2010 | File Prix Lux, Sao Paulo, Honorary Mention Electronic Sonority for "Dust till Dawn" |
| 2007 | Melbourne International Animation Festival 2007, Jury Award for "Paths of G" |
| 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Special Mention for "Mauerpark" | |
| NSF Visualization Challenge, Semifinalist Honors for "Comment Flow" | |
| 2004 | Japan Foundation Fellowship, IAMAS Institute, Gifu, Japan for "Loop City" |
| 2003 | ZKM international media art award 2003, Nomination for "besenbahn" |
| Art Directors Club Silver Award 2003 for contribution to "imagining the city" exhibition at URBIS Museum, Manchester |
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| Transmediale Award, Honorable mention in the category image for "besenbahn" | |
| Finalist FEIDAD Award for Digital Architecture in two categories, Taiwan for "wegzeit" | |
| 2001 | Joseph Binder Award / Adolf Loos Award for Design (for "Unit M" with G. Stocker and J. Smetschka) |
| 2000 | 1st Prize of Weiland Alias|Wavefront 3d competition |
| 1999 | Honorable Mention Prix Ars Electronica, Computeranimation for "bike" |