Team
Cristina Coman
Research Interests: Developing of efficient analytical research tools to advance biomedical research.
Education: Dr. rer. nat. in Chemistry, TU Dortmund University, Germany.
Favorite Scientist: Jasna Peter-Katalinic for her research on lipid and related structures.
Hobbies: Climbing and hiking
Email: cristina.coman@univie.ac.at
Dominik Kopczynski
Research Interests: Developing fast and efficient algorithm for computational lipidomics and proteomics and designing user-friendly and accurate analysis tools for these application areas.
Education: Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science, TU Dortmund University, Germany.
Favorite Scientist: Gene Meyers for developing suffix arrays as one of the fundamental data structures for fast and low-memory conform pattern matching algorithms as well as for developing the BLAST algorithm to be the most used algorithm for finding local alignments between search text and patterns especially used for mapping DNA and protein data.
Hobbies: Cooking, Cinema, Hiking, Mountain biking, telling terrible jokes
Email: dominik.kopczynski@univie.ac.at
Stefanie Rubenzucker
Research Interests: Developing novel workflows for the investigation of lipids in signaling events, with a special interest in adipocyte differentiation.
Education: MSc in Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
Favorite Scientist: Rosalind Franklin, for her invaluable contribution to our current understanding of molecular biology and virology.
Hobbies: Pottery, hiking, baking
Email: stefanie.rubenzucker@univie.ac.at
Nina Troppmair
Research Interests: Developing lipidomics workflows to dissect the role of sphingolipids, especially in adipogenesis.
Education: MSc in Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
Favorite Scientist: Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958) for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, which were largely recognized as such only posthumously.
Hobbies: Skiing, climbing, swimming
Email: nina.troppmair@univie.ac.at
Felix Niedermaier
Interests: Developing methods to improve the statistical power of lipid identification in lipidomics mass spectrometry workflows and finding ways to perform quality assurance on their predictions to express this power as a quantifiable metric.
Education: M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Technical University of Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Favorite Scientist: Margaret Hamilton, the computer scientist who headed the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory’s software engineering department and was hired by NASA to develop the guidance system for the Apollo program. She and her team are credited with popularizing the concept of software engineering by writing the code for the lunar module and command module by hand, resulting in a stack of books full of code taller than herself. And most impressively, they managed the entire apollo mission on only 72 kilobytes of computer memory!
Hobbies: Gardening, baking, music, exploring the city, developing software for my home lab
Email: felix.niedermaier@univie.ac.at
Alexander Eder
Interests: Developing analytical methods and advancing data analysis for the investigation of cardiac disease using mass spectrometry and in general making complicated problems easier.
Education: Dipl.-Ing. in Technical Chemistry, TU Wien, Austria
Favorite Scientist: Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), who came from a time when one could still be a chemist, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, meteorologist and lawyer at the same time and also make discoveries as fundamental as finding out the role of oxygen in combustion reactions.
Hobbies: Dancing, filmmaking, baking
Email: edera35@univie.ac.at
Magdalena Figlmüller
Research Interest: Enhancing our understanding of molecular pathways governing biological processes by developing and optimizing workflows across life science disciplines.
Education: MSc in Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
Favorite Scientist: Jane Goodall (born 1934), for her peaceful approach to studying chimpanzees while protecting their natural habitat, and her continuing efforts to inspire youth to take (conservation) matters into their own hands. And Robert Ahrends (born 1979), for helping me pay my bills. 🙂
Hobbies: Hiking, music, puzzles, travel
Email: magdalena.figlmueller@univie.ac.at:
Aleksandra Tyjan
Interests: Administration, international and national projects
Education: Mag. in German Studies, University of Łódź, Poland
Favorite Scientist: Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) for his pioneering scientific expeditions and a holistic approach to nature, which had a significant impact on modern environmental research. His interdisciplinary perspective and commitment to connecting various fields of knowledge make him a key figure in the history of natural science.
Hobbies: Geocaching, traveling around the world, reading
Email: aleksandra.tyjan@univie.ac.at
Marcel Benkhoff
Research Interests: Effect of blood lipids on platelet reactivity
Education: Dr. rer. nat in Pharmacy, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Favorite Scientist: Linus Pauling (1901 – 1994), who used his outstanding reach as a Nobel laureate in chemistry to fight for disarmament and against war and thus also received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hobbies: Sports, Cooking, Traveling
Email: TBA
Andrea Halasz
Interests: Development of computational tools for lipidomics, focusing on confidence
assessment and false discovery rate analysis in lipid identification.
Education: B.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology, FH Campus Wien, Austria
Favorite Scientist: Katalin Karikó for her pioneering contributions to mRNA research and for demonstrating the impact of persistence in scientific discovery.
Hobbies: Staying active, reading, cooking
Email: a52008848@unet.univie.ac.at
Fiona Rauscher
Interests: Integration of computational lipidomics and feature selection methods for improving interpretability in large-scale lipidome analyses, helping to make complex data more understandable.
Education: B.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology, FH Campus Wien, Austria
Favorite Scientist: Marie Curie, known for her groundbreaking work in radioactivity and her contribution to making science more accessible to women.
Hobbies: Traveling, discovering new restaurants and cafés, horse riding
Email: a52001007@unet.univie.ac.at
Former Team Members
