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) [ORF, Standard]
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.