Speakers

Topic

Digitalisation for Researchers at the University of Vienna

About the speaker

Ronald Maier has been Vice-Rector for Digitalisation and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Vienna since 1 October 2019. He is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Innsbruck.

Official website

Topic

The Role of the ZID in Supporting IT for Researchers

About the speaker

Ulf Busch has been CIO of the University of Vienna since 2010. He is the head of Zentraler Informatikdienst.

ZID website

Moderation

About the speaker

Michaela Bociurko is head of IT Communications and Marketing at Zentraler Informatikdienst. The staff unit bridges the gap between technical experts and users by providing user guides and documentation, organising information events and advising on product design and usability.

Moderation

About the speaker

Sara Curtis is an employee of IT Communications and Marketing at Zentraler Informatikdienst.

Moderation

About the speaker

Theresa Novak is an employee of IT Communications and Marketing at Zentraler Informatikdienst.

© Physics of Nanostructured Materials

Topic

Research (meta)data management at PNM. A story of vacuum-cars, QR codes and four-dimensional images

About the speaker

After finishing his Ph.D at the Faculty of Physics, Clemens Mangler started as senior scientist at the workgroup “Physics of Nanostructured Materials”. Since 2013 he is taking care of the group's flagship scanning transmission electron microscope and its ever growing ultra-high vacuum system. When he is not busy with the microscope, he is working on improving the group's IT systems.

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Topic

Implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks in the Life Sciences

About the speaker

Michael Feichtinger works as a data steward at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna. In this role, Michael supports researchers with data management, the adoption of FAIR data practices and is involved in the implementation of digital infrastructures, such as an electronic lab notebook.

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Topic

EuroCC / EuroHPC-JU

About the speaker

Markus Stöhr has been involved in high-performance computing since 2004 and has been working for BOKU University at the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC) supercomputing centre since 2011. He computed his doctoral thesis on the VSC-1, a very old generation of supercomputers. Today, the VSC-5 provides 65 times more computing power. Markus has been head of EuroCC Austria, the national HPC competence centre that facilitates access to high-performance computing, AI and big data, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, since 2020.

Topic

Vienna Scientific Cluster and MUSICA

About the speaker

Jan Zabloudil studied physics at the TU Wien, where he also completed his dissertation and worked as a postdoc. That was around the turn of the millennium. In 2009, Austria’s current supercomputer, the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), was put into operation in Vienna for the first time and Jan was one of the first employees to look after the computer as a system administrator. The team has now grown to 17 people and Jan supports them as Senior System Administrator and Team Coordinator.

Topic

Introducing Azure services at the University of Vienna

About the speaker

Fabian Jusufi is a staff member of Coordination Digital Transformation at Zentraler Informatikdienst. He is cloud administrator of the public cloud platforms Microsoft Azure and AWS at the University of Vienna.

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Topic

Data center strategy of the ZID. New Challenges to Infrastructure when using AI

About the speaker

Ulrich Kiermayr is Head of Communication Networks & Infrastructure and Vice Head of Zentraler Informatikdienst.