Category: Team

Varun Sharma

Predoctoral Fellow

Varun studied systems biology in San Francisco and Zürich. He joined CeMM as a PhD student in 2021 and is a joint member of our team and the lab of Christoph Bock. 

varun@menchelab.com

Sebastian Pirch

3D Artist

Sebastian is a 3D artist and designer who studied digital art at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna. He joined the group in 2017 and works on interactive virtual reality visualizations of large datasets.

sebastian@menchelab.com

Salvo Danilo Lombardo

Predoctoral Fellow

Salvo studied Medicine and Surgery in Catania, Italy. He joined our group as a PhD student in 2019. In his main project he investigates the impact of exposures during pregnancy using network medicine tools.

salvo@menchelab.com

Mathilde Meyenberg

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mathilde studied biology and biochemistry at the Warren Wilson College in the US and joined CeMM in 2018 as a PhD student in the group of Joanna Loizou. In her main project she investigated the effects of diet on the genome. She joined our team in 2022.

mathilde@menchelab.com

Martin Chiettini

3D Artist and IT

Martin studied Digital Arts at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna and joined our lab in 2019. He is taking care of our IT infrastructure and developing Virtual Reality applications.

martin@menchelab.com

Loan Vulliard

Predoctoral Fellow

Loan studied bioinformatics in Lyon, Daejon, Copenhagen and Montpellier. He joined our group as a PhD student in 2017. In his main project he is investigating how genetic and drug-induced perturbations interact with each other. 

loan@menchelab.com

Karl Riepl

Master Student

Karl studies mathematics at the University of Vienna. He joined our group in May 2022. In his Masters project he is investigating the dynamical properties of a peculiar class of circular networks.

karl@menchelab.com

Julia Guthrie

Group Leader

Julia studied molecular bionics and molecular medicine in Budapest, Uppsala and London. She did her PhDin the area of rare diseases and network medicine in the group of Kaan Boztug at CeMM in close collaboration with us. She is now working on network-based drug repurposing.

julia@menchelab.com

Joel Hancock

Predoctoral Fellow

Joel studied mathematics in Oxford and joined our group as a PhD student in 2017. In his main project he is trying to formulate a rigorous mathematical framework for connecting network theory and data science. 

joel@menchelab.com

Felix Müller

Data Scientist

Felix studied physics in Berlin where he also obtained his PhD in the area of stochastic processes and non-linear dynamics. He joined our group in 2016 as a data scientist and develops software tools to analyze and interpret large network datasets.

felix@menchelab.com