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The Team

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Prof. Ines Thiele

Principal Investigator

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Dr. Ines Thiele is a Personal Professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research interests include the diet-gut-brain-axis in neurodegenerative diseases.

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Dr. Cyrille Thinnes

Engagement Manager and Research Fellow

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Dr. Cyrille Thinnes cultivates the Virtual Metabolic Human business case, integrating the technology, stakeholder, and organisational capabilities for enhancing user experience.

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Mohammad Faiz Khan

Postdoctoral fellow

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Mohammad Faiz earned his doctorate and master's degrees in chemical engineering from IIT Madras in the area of systems biology. To better understand human drug metabolism, he is developing an integrated model using the WBM COBRA and PBPK models. 

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Filippo Martinelli

PhD Student

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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.

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Timothy O. Hulshof

Research assistant

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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. 

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Tim Hensen

PhD student

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Tim is a PhD student with a background in systems biology. His research focuses on applying the constrained-based modelling framework to investigate the role of the gut-brain axis in neurodegenerative diseases. 

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Joe Desbonnet

Computer scientist

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Joe Desbonnet maintained the computational infrastructure of the research group

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Bram Nap

PhD student

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Bram obtained his Master's degree in biotechnology at Wageningen University. His research area is in the role of gut microbes in the context of cognitive health and is part of the ITN SmartAge project.

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Anna Sheehy

PhD student

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Anna obtained her BSc in biomedical science at the University of Galway. She is interested in using COBRA modelling to advance our understanding of host-microbe co-metabolism along the gut-brain axis.

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Renee Waschkowitz

Research Assistant

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Renee holds a BSc in biomedical science from the University of Galway. She is compiling maps of human and microbial metabolism.

Previous team members

Dr. Almut Heinken - Research fellow, now Associate Professor, Nantes University, France.

Dr. Johannes Hertel - Research fellow, now Junior Professor, University of Greifswald, Germany

Dr. Bronson Weston - Research fellow

Dr. Dmitry A. Ravcheev - Research fellow

Arianna Basile - Visiting PhD student, now post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge University

David Sharkey - Research Assistant

Marcus Hogan - Research Assistant

Thibault Vangeneugden- Visiting master student

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