Peter Varga

PD Dr Peter Varga graduated as a civil engineer from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received his PhD in bone biomechanics from TUWien in 2009. This work, supervised by Prof. Philippe Zysset, has been recognised with the “Award of Excellence 2010” of the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research. Following a further year spent in Vienna as post-doc researcher, he moved to the Julius Wolff Institute at the Charité UM Berlin and worked at the research team of Prof. Kay Raum, where he focused on the microstructural analysis of bone using X-ray-based and ultrasound-related techniques as Post-Doc and Principal Investigator.

He joined the AO Research Institute Davos in 2014 as Senior Project Leader. Between 2020 and 2024 he was the Focus Area Leader for Biomechanics and Modeling and in 2023-2024 the Deputy Program Leader for Biomedical Development. In 2025, he became the Leader of Biomedical Development Program.

In 2021, the University of Bern has granted Dr Peter Varga his habilitation, enabling him to independently teach as Privatdozent for Biomedical Engineering at the Medical Faculty.

Since 2022, he is a Council Member of the European Society of Biomechanics.

Dr Varga's current research interests include the biomechanics of bone fractures, implant fixations and healing, with special focus on computer simulations.

He is the author of more than 115 scientific publications, one book chapter, and co-inventor of two patents.