People

Key Researchers

Gabriele Berg, Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Institute of Environmental Biotechnology

Head of the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology. Her main research areas include environmental biotechnology, the plant microbiome, metagenomics, and bioactive substances.

Samuel Bickel, PhD

Institute of Environmental Biotechnology

University Assistant focusing on soil biodiversity, microbiome modelling, soil physics, and microbial encapsulation.

Karl Gruber, PhD

Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Uni Graz

Full Professor for Computational Biosciences specializing in molecular structural biology, catalytic mechanisms of enzymes, and biomolecular crystallography.

Mario Klimacek, Priv.-Doz.

Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering

Senior Scientist and Dean of Study for Molecular Biosciences. His work centers on the optimization of enzyme cascades, metabolic engineering, and enzymology.

Robert Kourist, Prof. Dr.

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Professor for Molecular Biotechnology with a focus on biocatalysis, utilization of renewable resources, enzyme engineering, and photobiocatalysis.

Daniel Kracher, PhD

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Young Researcher Group Leader researching redox enzymes, biocatalysis, polysaccharide degradation, and enzyme engineering.

Regina Kratzer, Assoc. Prof.

Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering

Deputy Head of Institute specializing in bioprocess design, microbial CO2-assimilation, gas fermentation, and food biotechnology.

Bernd Nidetzky, Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Institute of Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering

Scientific Director of ACIB. His expertise includes carbohydrate-active enzymes, applied bio-catalysis, and synthetic biology.

Gustav Oberdorfer, Asst.-Prof.

Institute of Biochemistry

Assistant Professor focusing on protein design, computational biology, structural biology, biochemistry, and biophysics.

Robert Peharz, PhD

Institute of Theoretical Computer Science

Assistant Professor of AI specializing in probabilistic machine learning, uncertainty, and causal models and inference.

Thomas Pock, Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision

Head of Institute conducting research in image processing, inverse problems, optimization, and machine learning.

Stefan Radl, Assoc. Prof.

Institute of Process and Particle Engineering

Group Leader specializing in computer simulation, multiphase flows, fluid and particle mechanics.

Markus Reichhartinger, Univ.-Prof. Dr.

Institute of Automation and Control

Full Professor researching the modeling and control of mechatronic, biomedical and biotechnological systems.

Klaus Schliep, PhD

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Senior Scientist focusing on bioinformatics, phylogenetics, phylogeography, and ancestral reconstruction.

Vanja Subotić, Assoc. Prof.

Institute of Thermal Engineering

Lead of the Fuel Cell Research Group. Her research areas include high-temperature catalysts, fuel cells (SOFC), and electrolysis cells.

Leila Taher, Prof. Dr.

Institute of Biomedical Informatics

Full Professor for Bioinformatics. Her work covers theoretical biology, functional genomics, and gene regulation in development and disease.

Gerhard Thallinger, PhD

Institute of Biomedical Informatics

Principal Investigator specializing in the analysis of data from high-throughput OMICS technologies, next generation sequencing, and mass spectrometry.

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