Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Born on: February 22nd, 1984.
Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering
University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
E-mail: moritz[dot]lang[at]technikum-wien[dot]at

Education

University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
Vienna, Austria
August 2020 – present
Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering.
IST Austria
Klosterneuburg, Austria
August 2015 – July 2020
Postdoc on cellular integration of environmental signals.
ETH Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland
March 2015 – July 2015
Postdoc on systems identification.
ETH Zurich
Zürich, Switzerland
September 2009 – February 2015
PhD student. Thesis: "Modular identification and analysis of biomolecular networks"
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
September 2004 – August 2009
Diploma (MSc.) in Engineering Cybernetics. Thesis: "Entrainment and synchronization of synthetic mammalian oscillators"
Paracelsus-Gymnasium-Hohenheim
Stuttgart, Germany
August 1995 – July 2003
Abitur (high school diploma).

Scholarships and Prizes

ISTFELLOW
Postdoctoral fellowship at IST Austria.
German National Academic Foundation
Academic and financial support during diploma studies.

Work Experience

Bayer Technology Services GmbH
Leverkusen, Germany
September – December 2008
Internship. "Analysis of parameter space based on exhaustive characterization of cellular signaling modes".
Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units
Stuttgart, Germany
June 2005 – August 2008
Student assistant. Development of software solutions (C++, C#, PHP) in manufacturing.
Youth Association for the Protection of Nature
Stuttgart, Germany
September 2003 – July 2004
Civilian service. Organizing and supporting workshops and events.

Publications

See publication page.

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching assistant
IST Austria
Fall semester 2017/18
"IST core course", the signature interdisciplinary course of IST's PhD program.
Co-Supervisor MSc thesis (main supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Stelling)
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
2013
Sri Krishna Suresh Kumar: "Implementation of a closed-loop microscopy pipeline to stitch and segment images of growing cell populations}"
Supervisor research project
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich
2013
Lekshmi Dharmarajan: "Modelling dynamics and noise sources in a synthetic switch in yeast"
Teaching assistant
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich
Fall semester 2012/13
MSc course "Bioinformatics"
iGEM Advisor
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich
2012 & 2013
Adviser of the ETH Zurich teams in the international genetically engineered machine (iGEM) competitions 2012 & 2013
Supervisor research project
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich
2011
Joel Busset: "Synchronization of single-cell mammalian oscillators"
Teaching assistant
University of Stuttgart
October 2005 – February 2008
Diploma (BSc) courses "Mathematics for Engineers I – III" and "Technical Mechanics II & III"