Dr Roman Bauer is Assistant Professor at the University of Surrey (UK), where he leads the interdisciplinary COMBYNE lab (www.combynelab.com). In 2013 he obtained his PhD at the Institute for Neuroinformatics (ETH Zürich/Uni Zürich) in the field of computer simulations of brain development. Afterwards, he moved to the UK where he held several interdisciplinary research grants. Dr Bauer's research focusses on the computational modelling and analysis of biological dynamics, in particular those of the brain. His research involves modern computing approaches, innovative AI methods and IT- related collaboration. Dr Bauer is spokesperson of the international BioDynaMo collaboration (www.biodynamo.org). BioDynaMo is a high-performance platform for computational biology, as well as an important research and educational tool.