Jörg Menche studied physics in Leipzig, Recife and Berlin. During his PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (DE) he specialized in network theory. He then moved to Boston (US) to work as a postdoctoral at Northeastern University and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In 2015, he started his own research group at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (AT). He was appointed full professor at the University of Vienna in 2020. His interdisciplinary team combines backgrounds ranging from biology and bioinformatics to medicine, physics, mathematics & arts. The broad ambition of his group is use tools and concepts from network theory to elucidate the complex machinery of interacting molecules that constitutes the basis of (patho-)physiological states. Major areas of interest are network-based approaches to rare diseases, understanding the basic principles of how perturbations of biological systems influence each other and developing novel Virtual Reality (VR) based technologies for analyzing large genomic data.