Junior Faculty Meeting

The meeting will welcome new tenure-track colleagues, celebrate successful QV completions, and provide an opportunity for scientific exchange and networking. The program includes short research pitches from two newer tenure-track colleagues, followed by reflections from two newly appointed associate professors on their tenure-track experience. All scientific staff are warmly invited. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

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Preliminary agenda: 16:00 - 16:15 Welcome & moderation by Patrizia Stoitzner, Vice Rector for research and international affairs Annika Hering (HR / Personnel Development): Offers and Services for Scientific Staff Christof Simon (PR/Web) presenting our new tenure track page 16:15 – 16:45 Pitches by Elisabeth Reiser (University Clinic for Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine), a specialist in gynaecology who studies potential markers of ovarian ageing in order to better predict the outcomes of medically assisted reproduction. Jan Pencik (University Clinic for Urology), a cancer researcher and translational scientist who uses AI on multi-omics and clinical data to decode how chromosomal instability rewires tumor immune signaling, in order to turn that biology into precision oncology biomarkers and novel therapies. Celebration of successful QV fulfilments: Johannes Pallua (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology), a biomedical imaging researcher who uses spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, and high-resolution CT to better understand diseases affecting tissue and bone and to bring new imaging technologies into biomedical research and clinical practice. Johannes Passecker (Institute of Systems Neuroscience), a neuroscientist who likes to observe behaviour and listen to neuronal activity to predict what we are going to do and why. from 16:45 open networking with snacks and drinks

e look forward to welcoming you and to an engaging afternoon together. For any questions, please contact juniorfaculty@i-med.ac.at.