Data Science @ Uni Vienna Seed Grants
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.
We are happy to announce our first Seed Grants Winners:
Susanna Sawyer and Jory Lietard
Susanna Sawyer—postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology—and Jory Lietard—Assistant Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry—plan to investigate alternative sequencing strategies for ancient DNA using Oxford Nanopore Technology. Their project will be the first step in this plan by producing data to train a new basecaller for degraded ancient DNA.
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.