Sim4Life.lite Student Competition 2025
Enter the Sim4Life Student Competition and win one of our exciting prizes!
This year’s Sim4Life Student Competition gives us an opportunity to recognize outstanding work in numerical simulations in a variety of research areas. Students are encouraged to enter the competition by submitting original simulation projects developed with Sim4Life.

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Who can participate? |
Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students
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How to participate? |
Each participant must:
- define a unique problem for which Sim4Life is used to numerically model and find a solution
- submit the project, including a brief explanation template) of the approach, along with the corresponding Sim4Life simulation file
- alternatively, a scientific paper submitted in 2025 or a presentation made at a scientific meeting in 2025, along with the corresponding Sim4Life simulation file, may be used as a competition entry
- share the simulation project and paper/abstract via email to s4l-support@zmt.swiss or via Sim4Life.web by tagging it with “Sim4Life Student Competition 2025” by 31 October 2025, 23:59h Swiss local time
Successful submission of a project will be confirmed by email.
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Evaluation criteria |
The submitted projects will be evaluated by a panel of experts according to the following criteria:
- scientific value / importance
- originality / complexity
- appropriate use of Sim4Life modeling tools, solvers, analysis, Python notebook, and libraries
- proper application of methodology, verification and validation, and confidence intervals, and recognition of limitations
- quality of reporting in terms of clarity, completeness, and presentation, including visuals
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Winners |
The winners will be notified individually via email between 1 and 15 of December 2025, and prizes will be officially announced by ZMT thereafter.
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Awards |
1st Prize USD 3,000 2nd Prize USD 2,000 3rd Prize USD 1,000 |
If you have any questions, please contact the Sim4Life Team at s4l-support@zmt.swiss.
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