Gudrun Schappacher-Tilp completed her master’s degree in mathematics at the University of Graz (Austria) in 2009 and began working for Roche Diagnostics GmbH as a project manager. In parallel, she completed her doctoral research in mathematics in 2003 at the Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz. She returned to academia for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Calgary (Canada) from 2007 – 2008. After maternity leave, she won a postdoctoral research grant for highly qualified women (Hertha-Firnberg grant by the FWF). Her research was focused on mathematical models of muscle contraction.
She subsequently held a senior postdoc position at the University of Graz, during which she also completed a doctoral program in medical sciences at the Medical University Graz. In 2020, she started as a senior lecturer at the electronics and computer engineering department at the FH JOANNEUM – University of Applied Sciences. Her main research interests are mathematical models of complex processes and their analysis and applications. Her teaching is driven by her love for applied mathematics and her belief that mathematical thinking is indispensable for problem-solving in applied sciences and engineering.