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Dr. Judita Huber
During my PhD in Neuroscience at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, I found a passion for organising science outreach activities. This led me to pursue a career focused on managing and organising learning experiences. Following the submission of my thesis at the end of 2020, I worked at the Graduate School at the Institute for Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) for almost three years in the position of Graduate School Development. In 2023, I transitioned to the ISTA Science Education Team, where I now primarily organise neuroscience workshops for teenagers.
Dr. Joana Enes
I studied biology, and during my PhD at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany, I started out in neuroscience by investigating the cellular mechanisms of spinal cord regeneration. I then went to Brandeis University, in Boston, where my research focused on sympathetic drive to heart cells. This project qualified for a grant from the Technology Transfer Office to explore satellite glia as a novel drug target in heart disease. That’s when I became interested in entrepreneurship.
In 2017, I returned to Europe and joined a spin-out from IST Austria, dedicated to developing an iPSCs-based platform aimed at delivering precision medicine to children with epilepsy and autism.
Following my passion for healthcare innovation, I later joined Gouya Insights, a clinical research service and consulting company. Working across different therapeutic areas, I currently provide writing and consulting services to small- and medium-sized biotech companies, assisting them in conducting clinical studies and obtaining regulatory approval for their products. Outside of work, you may see me on a tennis court, chasing after a ball.
https://gouya-insights.com/our-team/
Dr. Oliver Ludwig Eichmüller
Oliver Ludwig Eichmüller studied Medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg. During his medical studies, he performed his Medical Thesis in the Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Knoblich at IMBA Vienna. During his scientific career, he was awarded in 2022 with the Ernst-Niedermeyer Award for Epilepsy Research of the Austrian Society of Epileptology (ÖGfE), and in 2023 with the Alfred-Hauptmann-Award for Epilepsy Research (Basic Science) of the German and Austrian Society of Epileptology and the Swiss League Against Epilepsy.
Nowadays, he is a Resident physician in pediatric and adolescent medicine and also a Medical Researcher in the Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Knoblich at IMBA Vienna.
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imba/research/juergen-knoblich/team
Twitter: @OEichmueller
Prof. Dr. Gašper Tkačik
Professor Gašper Tkačik, a computational neuroscientist, earned his physics degree from the University of Ljubljana in 2001. He completed his PhD at Princeton University and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania before founding his research group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria). His work there focuses on Information Processing in Biological Systems, investigating areas such as collective dynamics, visual encoding in the retina, genetic regulation during early embryogenesis, and the evolution of gene regulation.
https://ist.ac.at/de/forschung/tkacik-gruppe/
Dr. Nace Mikus
Nace Mikus is a clinical & computational scientist with over a decade of experience in an array of research domains, including clinical psychopharmacology, computational psychiatry, and digital health. He currently serves as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at both the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University and the Psychology Department at the University of Cambridge. He is also a cofounder of TiliaHealth FlexCo, a digital mental health diagnostic startup that aims to improve psychiatric care and treatment development with novel digital biomarkers supported by generative computational models.
Sabria Lagoun
Sabria Lagoun is a leader in science communication and healthcare innovation with a diverse background in scientific research, industry, and startup ecosystems. Originally enrolled in a Ph.D. program from the Medical University of Vienna, she has quit fundamental research to explore the links between science and industry. Sabria co-founded The Brainstorms Scientific, an innovation hub in neurotechnology, and is a recognized public speaker and science communicator. She then became the program manager at Health Hub Vienna, helping pharma companies and healthcare startups build partnerships in the context of the Austrian healthcare system.
She currently works in the pharmaceutical industry at MSD Austria as a healthcare economics and new products manager.