#5QW: Five Questions With…

We’d like you to get to know us a little bit better and with this series invite you to meet people from across TU Wien Informatics.

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#5QW: Martina Landman

2024-03-15
eduLAB
Women in Informatics

Martina is a Ph.D. candidate in informatics education and organizer of eduLAB. She shows us what card games have to do with informatics.

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#5QW: Katja Hose

2023-05-15
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Faculty

Katja is unleashing the power of data. Our new Professor of Databases & AI tells us what data can do and why accuracy is the name of the game.

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#5QW: Henderik Proper

2023-05-01
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Faculty

Want to know what plumbing and models have in common? Henderik has the answers. The teaching enthusiast is our newest professor of business informatics.

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#5QW: Maria Christakis

2023-04-16
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Faculty

Software is key. And Maria likes to find out what’s wrong with it. The ERC grant winner sets new standards for reliable software.

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#5QW: Marcel Moosbrugger

2022-07-08
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Faculty

Math-enthusiast Marcel had a hard time deciding what to study. Lucky for us, he chose informatics and is on his way to an exceptional career.

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#5QW: Astrid Weiss

2022-05-02
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Faculty

Astrid tells us how robots led her to pioneer in a transdisciplinary research field – although at first, she only knew them from movies.

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#5QW: Laura Kovacs

2021-12-10
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Women in Informatics
Excellence

Maths competitions braced Laura for the field she is now researching. She also explains why computer scientists are supposed to live in eternal happiness.

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#5QW: Stefan Szeider

2021-11-22
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Faculty

Although interested in computers in his teenage days, Stefan’s real entry point into Informatics was when reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.

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#5QW: Johannes Vass

2021-06-29
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Excellence

Johannes noticed that despite the nerdy informatics image, you need to display social skills for communicating successfully in big software projects.

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#5QW: Glenda Hannibal

2020-08-03
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Women in Informatics
Students

Because of a not very promising maths test at school, Glenda was advised not to specialize in science. Now she is researching on Human-Robot Interaction.

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#5QW: Katinka Böhm

2020-06-16
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Women in Informatics
Excellence

Despite her disappointing experience with her first Informatics course at school, Katinka got curious to learn more about computers and coding.

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#5QW: Martin Nöllenburg

2020-04-29
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Faculty

In his youth, Martin scraped together all his savings to buy his first Amiga computer. Today, he creates algorithms that help people in their everyday lives.

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#5QW: Tina Stamencic

2020-03-11
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Women in Informatics
Excellence

Tina was awarded the Siemens Award for Excellence in 2019. She continues her bachelor degree in Medical Informatics, and wants to create innovative tools.

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#5QW: Peter Knees

2019-11-27
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Faculty

Peter works multidisciplinary in music information retrieval, an intersection of artificial intelligence and music, and deals with recommender systems.

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