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Academia Europaea elects Nata拧a Pr啪ulj as a member
23 October 2017
Congratulations to Professor Nata拧a Pr啪ulj from the Department of Computer Science, who has been elected Member of the Academia Europaea in 2017.
Since 1988,听听has been an international, nongovernmental association joining together world-leading scientists and scholars from across various disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, mathematics, informatics, physics, engineering, and earth and chemical sciences. Its 4000 members are recognised by their peers as experts and leaders in their subject fields.
The Association largely provides advice to European institutions, governments and international agencies on matters relating to science, scholarship and academic life in Europe. It promotes public education in these subjects, as well as publishing the听European Review听through Cambridge University Press.
听is a professor of biomedical data science. Her research mines 鈥榖ig data鈥� to extract new information for increasing biomedical knowledge. She studies the wiring patterns of large and complex omics networks, disease ontologies, clinical patient data, drug-drug and drug-target interaction networks, seeing them as sources of information that can complement genetic sequence data. This data is then interpreted for deeper biomedical insight.
In 2013 Professor Pr啪ulj was elected into the Young Academy of Europe. She has been a British Computer Society fellow since 2013, and was awarded听听in recognition of the potential her research has to revolutionise health and pharmaceutics.
She received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grant for her project听Biological Network Topology Complements Genome as a Source of Biological Information听for听2012-2017.
Adding to this, Professor Pr啪ulj held a USA analogue to an ERC Starting Grant, a prestigious NSF Career Award, for the project titled听Tools for Analyzing, Modeling, and Comparing Protein-Protein Interaction Networks听in 2007-2011 at the University of California, Irvine.听Her research has also been supported by large governmental and industrial grants, including from GlaxoSmithKline, IBM and Google.
听about Professor Nata拧a Pr啪ulj.