Data Science @ Uni Vienna Seed Grants
We are happy to announce our first Seed Grants Winners:
Susanna Sawyer
Susanna Sawyer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and affiliated with Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences. Her research focuses on extracting and sequencing ancient DNA from bones and sediments from the Palaeolithic Age. Susanna aims to expand ancient DNA sequencing possibilities to include Oxford Nanopore Technology.
Andreas Baumann and Yllka Velaj
Languages and the words that we use to communicate are subject to change. In their project, Andreas Baumann—Assistant Professor at the Department of German Studies— and Yllka Velaj—Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science—plan to investigate how words spread through speaker populations via digital and in-person interactions by combining data and methods from demographics, epidemiology, social media, and network science.
Our seed grants aim to foster innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research within the field of data science. These grants are intended to support the preparation of strong applications by early-career scholars for significant funding opportunities, and to encourage collaboration between multiple faculties within the research network Data Science @ Uni Vienna. The seed grants should be used for the preparation of a major funding application (ERC frontier research grants, FWF Principal Investigator projects, FWF START, Elise Richter, or similar). Projects must be relevant to the field of data science and applications must be submitted through one of the faculties affiliated to our research network. Recipients of a seed grant will be expected to presenting their projects and any preliminary results at one of our networking events.