Sub auspiciis Praesidentis for Sebastian Moser

This makes him only the ninth person to receive this award at the Montanuniversität Leoben. Sebastian Moser was supervised by Dr. Megan Cordill of the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences through a collaboration with Austrian microelectronics company Infineon Technologies Austria AG and the daughter company Kompetenzzentrum Automobil- und Industrieelektronik GmbH (KAI).

Only those who complete their upper secondary school and school-leaving examination with distinction, complete their bachelor's, master's and doctoral studies at university with distinction and complete all modules as well as their diploma thesis, dissertation and PhD defense with the best possible assessment are admitted as candidates for a sub-auspiciis doctorate. His doctoral thesis was dedicated to the topic of fatigue of metallization layers in microelectronic applications.