Johannes Kirchmair

Johannes Kirchmair is Professor of Data-Driven Drug Discovery at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Vienna. He leads the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Molecular Informatics in the Biosciences and heads the Computational Drug Discovery and Design Group (COMP3D). He also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. Johannes earned his PhD from the University of Innsbruck in 2007. His professional journey includes roles as an application scientist at Inte:Ligand GmbH (Vienna, 2007–2009) and as a postdoctoral researcher at BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, 2010), the University of Cambridge (2010–2013), and ETH Zurich (2013–2014). He has held junior and associate professorships at the University of Hamburg (2014–2018), the University of Bergen (2018–2019), and the University of Vienna (2020-2025).