Dr. Pichler's research is focused on computational analysis problems across the drug discovery and development process, as well as clinical health care scenarios. He is particularly interested in the use of ontologies and other semantic web technologies in the life sciences. He is a member of the W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and other academic and industry groups, where he contributes to the development of open source tools for data integration and analysis. Dr. Pichler has worked as a bio/cheminformaticist in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for over 10 years.
Most recently he was a senior manager and principal bioinformatics scientist at AstraZeneca, where he worked on knowledge management systems, text mining, dynamical systems modeling, network analysis, and visualization.