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 |
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Since 2020 |
Adjunct Principal Investigator at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria |
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Since 2017 |
Associate faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria |
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2015 — 2020 |
Principal Investigator at CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria |
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2013 — 2015 |
Postdoctoral fellow with Albert-László Barabási at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. |
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2010 — 2012 |
Affiliated member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. |
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2010 — 2012 |
Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Albert-László Barabási at the Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, USA. |
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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”). |
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2006 — 2010 |
Doctoral research at the MPIKG supervised by Reinhard Lipowsky. Title of the PhD thesis: “Activity Patterns on Networks”. |
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2005 |
Diploma (Diplom) in physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany. |
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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”. |
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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”. |
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2000 |
Pre-diploma (Vordiplom) in physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany. |
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1999 — 2005 |
Studies of physics in Leipzig (Germany), Recife (Brazil) and Berlin (Germany). |
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1998 |
A-levels (Abitur) in Kitzingen, Germany. |
Fellowships, Awards
2019 |
Winner of the Falling Walls Lab Austria competition (with Julia Pazmandi) [ORF, Standard] |
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2019 |
Selected as Future Innovator at the Ars Electronica Festival 2019 in Linz (AT) |
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2019 |
Full member of the Wolfgang Pauli Institute Vienna (AT) |
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2010 |
Best PhD thesis of the year 2010, awarded by the Association of Friends of Colloids and Interface Research (FKGF). |
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2010 |
PhD thesis awarded the highest grade “Summa Cum Laude”. |
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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. |
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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.