Dr. Ines Thiele is a Personal Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research interests include the diet-gut-brain-axis in Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Almut Heinken
Research Fellow
Dr. Almut Heinken research focuses on applying constraint-based modelling to investigate the emergent properties of human gut microbiomes
Dr. Cyrille Thinnes
Engagement Manager and Research Fellow
Dr. Cyrille Thinnes cultivates the Virtual Metabolic Human business case, integrating the technology, outreach, and organizational capabilities for enhancing user experience.
Dr. Dmitry A. Ravcheev
Research Fellow
Dr. Dmitry Ravcheev is an expert in comparative genomics approaches. His research focuses on expanding microbial genome annotations to inform the microbial reconstructions.
Dr. Johannes Hertel
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Johannes Hertel is a biostatistician applying his expertise to large-scale metabolomic and metagenomic datasets. He is developing novel ways to combine statistics with computational modelling.
Filippo Martinelli
PhD Student
Filippo obtained his Master's degree in pharmaceutical chemistry with a thesis focused on doping analysis. His research interests include the application of constraint-based models to investigate diet-drugs-microbiota-host interactions.
Timothy O. Hulshof
Research assistant
Timothy obtained his Master's degree in bioinformatics from the University College Cork, Ireland. His work includes enabling the large-scale integration of metagenomic data with microbiome-level metabolic models.
Arianna Basile
Visiting PhD student
Arianna is a PhD student from the University of Padova. Her research interests include flux balance to unravel microbial interactions both in the anaerobic digestion engineering system and in the gut.