1996 DFG-Travel Award to the 42nd Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting
1996 Young Academic Scientific Award (2nd Prize), 1st International Congress of Skiing and Science, St. Christoph, Austria
1999 Scientific Prize 1999 of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering for the dissertation „Wear of the Polyethylene Component Created by Rolling Motion of the Artificial Knee Joint“
1999 1st Prize Student Paper Competition (Doctoral Level) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME International Conference, Nashville, USA
2001 New Investigator Recognition Award of the Orthopaedic Research Societies of the USA, Canada, Europe, and Japan at the 4th Combined Meeting, Rhodes, Greece
2004 “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Endoprothetik” 2004 Award endowed with EUR 12,500; Laureates: Kraft, Diedrich, Burian, Schmitt, and Wimmer for the paper “Striated muscle microvascular response to metallic debris: a comparative in vivo study with titanium and stainless steel” published in J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 85:133-141, 2003
2008 Recipient of the William Harris Award (Mid-career Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society endowed with $5,000) for the paper “Wear mechanisms in metal-on-metal bearings: The importance of tribochemical reaction layers”.
2011 Ken Ludema Best Paper Award “Tribocorrosion behavior of CoCrMo alloy for hip prostheses as a function of loads: A comparison between two testing systems” presented at the Wear of Materials Conference 2011 in Philadelphia (selected from ~300 manuscripts for publication in Wear)
2012 First Prize in the Grand Challenge Competition of predicting in vivo knee loads using a mathematical model. Received at the ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference; Laureates: Knowlton, Lundberg, and Wimmer
2013 Best Poster Award – Second Place for the paper “Carbon content influences the tribocorrosion behavior of CoCrMo alloy” presented at the Wear of Materials Conference 2013 in Portland, OR; Laureates: Laurent, Mathew, Nagelli, Jacobs, and Wimmer
2015 Best Poster Prize – First Place for the paper “Echtzeit-Audiofeedback von druckbasierten Sensorsohlen zur Reduktion des Knieadduktionsmomentes” (real time audio-feedback from pressure insoles to reduce the knee adduction moment) presented at the 9th Meeting of the German Society for Biomechanics in Bonn, Germany May 7, 2015; Laureates: Ina Stoller, Ferrigno, Wimmer.
2016 ICORS Best Paper Award for “Stair climbing kinematics measured in the gait lab as input for total knee wear testing” presented at the Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies in Xi’an, China, September 22, 2016; Laureates: Markus Wimmer, Orozco, Freed, Sakarovitch, Fullam, Pourzal.
