Dr. Birgit Schaffhauser

Birgit Schaffhauser received her PhD in Biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2004, conducting her doctoral research between the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna and the University of Basel, Switzerland, focusing on molecular biology, angiogenesis inhibition in transgenic mice and cell signalling in tumour progression. She has since built a distinguished career managing large-scale international research collaborations across Europe, including leadership roles at the Technical University of Munich, EPFL, and now Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). As Senior Programme Manager and Team Coordinator at CHUV’s NeuroDigital unit at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, her work focuses on advancing the EBRAINS trusted research environments through the Medical Informatics Platform (MIP), the Human Intracerebral EEG Platform (HIP), and CHORUS, platforms enabling secure data sharing and digital neuroscience innovation. She is facilitating the establishment of the EBRAINS Swiss National Node, SENPro – a national project aiming at establishing a pilot EOSC Swiss National Node and contributes to major European projects such as eCREAM and EPND, supporting secure data sharing and digital neuroscience innovation.