Seitenhistorie

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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.

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Topic

The Role of the ZID in Supporting IT for Researchers

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

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

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TopicAzure services at the University of Vienna

FACEM: A Repository for Ancient Ceramic Fabrics from the Mediterranean

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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.

Barbara Borgers holds a Hertha Firnberg Fellowship at the Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna. As a ceramic scientist, she has worked in various interdisciplinary research projects of heritage communities, museums, and commercial archaeology companies across Europe, and she is currently the PI of the project ‘Cooking ware as Indicator for Regional Trade and Exchange in 4^th-1^st c. BC Central Italy’.

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TopicUnraveling Odor Perception with E3 Equivariant Graph Neural Networks Through Self-Supervised Learning

Data Flows Along the Danube: The Digital Development of The Danube Trade – from Past to Present

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Christian J. Binder embarked on his academic journey at the Higher School (HTL) for Informatics, honing his skills from 2000 to 2006, before securing a BSc in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics from FH Campus Wien in 2015. Currently, he is finalizing his MSc in Computational Science at the University of Vienna, where he specializes in data mining, machine learning, and the computational aspects of biology and chemistry. Since 2007, Christian has applied his expertise in software engineering across various roles, turning freelance in 2018. He also shares his knowledge as a lecturer in C++ programming for bioinformatics at FH Campus Wien since 2019. Presently, Christian is dedicating his efforts to his master's thesis within the Cheminformatics group at the University of Vienna's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research is centered on the innovative "odor-map" project, aiming to decode the complexities of odor perception through computational models.

Peter Rauscher is a historian specialising in early modern financial, administrative, and economic history, as well as Jewish history, particularly in the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy. Since 2005, he has been a lecturer in modern history and became a Senior Scientist at the University of Vienna in 2024. He has been PI of the project cluster “The Danube trabe. Sources on Austrian Economic History (17th/18th Centuries)” since 2010.

Topic

IT Support for Digital Humanities

About the speaker

Raman Ganguly is head of the IT Support for Research department at the ZID. With a strong software development and media technology background, he has been actively involved in digital data archiving since 2011. He mainly focuses on design and technical models for data preservation. Additionally, he leads the development of Phaidra, along with other open-source projects aimed at data preservation. At the University of Vienna, Raman oversees the creation and operation of systems to preserve data from research and education long-term. Alongside this, he has contributed to various local and international projects, aiming to enhance research data infrastructure.