Biography and expertise
Biography
Lukas is a computer scientist with research interests in developing machine learning methods for the life sciences. He earned his PhD from the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University (Australia) in 2015, with a thesis on the prediction of stability and functional changes caused by genomic variants. Following this, Lukas moved to Switzerland working as a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich in the Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab. There, his research focused on machine learning methods for precision medicine. In 2018, Lukas moved to Austria to join CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine to develop machine learning methods for single-cell RNA-seq data analysis, for which he received European Commission's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship. While at CeMM, and later at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Medical University of Vienna, he was also the lead bioinformatician and data scientist for a project exploring epigenetic-immunological interplay. In 2022, Lukas returned to Griffith University, where he worked as a Blue Economy CRC research fellow at the Coastal and Marine Research Centre, developing computer vision methods for marine wildlife monitoring and precision aquaculture. Since 2025, Lukas is a Lecturer in Information Technology at Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Australia.
Luka's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals
