Jörg Menche

Education & Academic Positions

Since 2020  

Full professor at the University of Vienna, Center for Molecular Biology (Max Perutz Labs) and Faculty of Mathematics, Vienna, Austria

Since 2020  

Adjunct Principal Investigator at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Since 2017  

Associate faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria

2015 — 2020  

Principal Investigator at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

2013 — 2015  

Postdoctoral fellow with Albert-László Barabási at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

2010 — 2012  

 Affiliated member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

2010 — 2012  

Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Albert-László Barabási at the Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

2010  

PhD in theoretical physics at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) and the University of Potsdam, Germany (grade “Summa Cum Laude”).

2006 — 2010  

Doctoral research at the MPIKG supervised by Reinhard Lipowsky. Title of the PhD thesis: “Activity Patterns on Networks”.

2005  

Diploma (Diplom) in physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

2004 — 2005  

Diploma thesis in statistical physics under supervision of Lutz Schimansky-Geier at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Title: “Brownian particles with inner degrees of freedom”.

2002 — 2003  

Undergraduate studies in Brazil at the University of Recife (UFPE) with a scholarship of the DAAD (German academic exchange service). Research under supervision of J.R.L. de Almeida. Topic: “Minority games with multiple choices”.

2000  

 Pre-diploma (Vordiplom) in physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

1999 — 2005  

Studies of physics in Leipzig (Germany), Recife (Brazil) and Berlin (Germany).

1998  

 A-levels (Abitur) in Kitzingen, Germany.

Fellowships, Awards

2019      

Winner of the Falling Walls Lab Austria competition (with Julia Pazmandi) [ORFStandard]

2019      

Selected as Future Innovator at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019 in Linz (AT)

2019      

Full member of the Wolfgang Pauli Institute Vienna (AT)

2010     

Best PhD thesis of the year 2010, awarded by the Association of Friends of Colloids and Interface Research (FKGF).

2010    

PhD thesis awarded the highest grade “Summa Cum Laude”.

2002    

Full personal scholarship awarded by the DAAD (German academic exchange service) for one year undergraduate studies in Brazil.

Academic Spin-Offs

2013      

Co-founder of Scipher Medicine, a company providing network-medicine tools to predict personalized drug response.

2011     

Co-founder of ElectricAntLab, a company developing high-performance-computing applications for complex fluids simulations.

Funding

Our lab has received over 3M EUR third-party funding from Austrian and European agencies, as well as from industry partners.