Univ. Prof. Tecumseh Fitch

Tecumseh Fitch is Head of the Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology and Deputy Head of the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub.

In relation to Bio Data Science He is mainly interested in phylogenomics and phylogenetically controlled statistical analysis. An avid musician himself, Tecumseh has a deep interest in accoustics and the role of genes related to accoustic processing.

Univ. Prof. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

Moritz Grosse-Wentrup is Head of the Research Group Neuroinformatics and Deputy Head of the Research Group Security and Policy.

He is interested in the fundamental problem how neural activity gives rise to cognition and aims to answer this causal question by developing statistical models and machine learning methods that infer causal relations from purely observational data. He uses these methods to study how neural processes, e.g., as observed by calcium imaging, EEG, ECoG, or fMRI, generate cognition and behavior.

A special interest of Moritz Grosse-Wentrup lies in translating his work into clinical applications, e.g., by designing brain-computer interfaces that assist paralyzed patients in communication, or by developing personalized brain stimulation protocols in the context of stroke rehabilitation.

Univ.-Prof. Wolfram Weckwerth

Wolfram Weckwerth is Head of the VIME (Research Platform  Vienna Metabolomics Center) , Head of the Large-Instrument Facility for Mass Spectrometry in Life Sciences and Deputy Head of the Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology within the Faculty of Life Sciences .

In the framework of VIME a focus is on algorithms for data processing and integration, biochemical interpretation, structural elucidation of unknown metabolites as well as metabolomics/life sciences databases. The Weckwerth lab develops genome-wide metabolomics and proteomics/phosphoproteomics technologies as elementary systems biology techniques. Further research comprises data integration strategies by combining experimental approaches with multivariate statistics, pattern recognition and modeling of metabolism.

Univ.-Prof. Gerhard Ecker

Gerhard Ecker is Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Head of the Pharmacoinformatics Research Group

His main research interests are ligand- and structure-based drug design with focus on transmembrane transport proteins, prediction of on- and off-kinetics, as well as semantic data integration.

Univ.-Prof. Thierry Langer

Thierry Langer is Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Deputy Head of the Research Platform Next Generation Macrocycles to Address Challenging Protein Interfaces.

He is an expert in computer aided molecular design and sucsessfully led several drug discovery programs into pre-clinical and clinical development

József Arató, PhD

Jozsef Arató is senior scientist at the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub where he works as a Data Scientist.

Currently, Jozsef develops computational models that can detect learning in eye-movement patterns. Furthermore, he is interested in the principles that guide learning and decision-making, and the modeling approaches that can uncover these underlying principles.