About Me

"Hello there!" - Obi-Wan Kenobi

I am Micha Johannes Birklbauer, or just Micha, and was born on the 10^th of August 1995 in the beautiful city of Linz in Austria. Growing up in the suburbs my childhood was rather unspectacular, a lot of reading, drawing and spending time outside. At the age of 19 I graduated from highschool with distinction. After community service I enrolled and finished my Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics, a cross border study program at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and the University of South Bohemia in Budweis that teaches the interdisciplinary field of informatics and biology. I wrote my bachelor thesis on "Imputation Of Missing Values In Clinical Data" and got my degree in 2019. I continued my studies as a master student of "Data Science and Engineering" at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg. I specialized in "Marketing and Production" and "Data-driven Drug Design" and wrote my thesis about "Automatic identification of important interactions and interaction-frequency-based scoring in protein-ligand complexes" in cooperation with the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg. I finished my master's in 2021 and since then I am doing my PhD in Computer Science and work as a researcher in computational proteomics at the Bioinformatics Research Group of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg. In my free time I like to go to the movies, work on hobby projects, read or paint.

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