The award, consisting of a certificate, and a cash prize of 250 €, is sponsored by Nanophotonics.
Mirja was awarded the prize for her presentation titled “Global graph features unveiled by unsupervised geometric deep learning”. In her presentation, she introduced a novel graph autoencoder designed to capture complex relationships modelled by graphs. She demonstrated the performance of the network across a spectrum of datasets, including the classification of protein assembly structures from single-molecule localization microscopy data, as well as the analysis of collective behavior and correlations between brain connections and age.

