Area Chairs
Simon Hippenmeyer
Area Chair Life Sciences
Professor Simon Hippenmeyer oversees the Life Sciences Area, which encompasses many of ISTA’s biologists, biochemists, and neuroscientists.
- since 2019 Professor, ISTA
- 2012 – 2019 Assistant Professor, ISTA
- 2011 – 2012 Research Associate, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
- 2006 – 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
- 2004 – 2006 Postdoctoral Associate, University of Basel and Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
- 2004 PhD, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Contact: Louis Alesch (Area Administrator): -1032 louis.alesch@ista.ac.at
Mikhail Lemeshko
Area Chair Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Professor Mikhail Lemeshko oversees the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Area, which encompasses many of ISTA’s mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and material scientists.
- since 2019 Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
- 2014 – 2019 Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
- 2011 – 2014 ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- 2011 PhD, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany
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Contact: Ömer Halil Ünal (Area Administrator): -1073 omerhalil.unal@ista.ac.at
Christopher Wojtan
Area Chair Information and System Sciences
Professor Christopher Wojtan oversees the Information and System Sciences Area, which provides a current and future home to computationally, mathematically, and technologically oriented scientists and engineers. Computer scientists, statisticians, mathematical biologists, theoretical physicists, systems neuroscientists, computational chemists, synthetic biologists, control engineers, and others, this area comprises all who study “information” as a subject, who try to understand complex natural and build complex man-made “systems” (from the brain to the earth, from robots to networks), and who tackle the methodological challenges of big data.
- since 2015 Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
- 2011 – 2014 Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
- 2010 PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
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Contact: Polina Tazenkova (Area Administrator): -2271 polina.tazenkova@ista.ac.at
