Gerhard Ecker is Professor of Pharmacoinformatics and Head of the Pharmacoinformatics Research Group at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna. Gerhard received his doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Vienna and performed his post-doctoral training at the group of J. Seydel in Borstel (Germany). His research focuses on computational drug design with special emphasis on drug-transporter interaction and in silico safety assessment. He participated in 5 EU-funded projects related to toxicology and coordinated the Open PHACTS project, which created an Open Pharmacological Space by semantic integration of public databases. His recent contributions focus on the application of deep learning and AI for target profiling and prediction of drug-drug interactions. Gerhard served 2009 – 2011 as President of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, and from 2018 – 2022 as Dean at the Faculty of Life Sciences.