Johannes Heurix

Johannes Heurix serves as a Research Fellow within the Data Science group (E194-04) at Vienna University of Technology's Faculty of Informatics. His interdisciplinary work bridges agricultural technology, information security, and semantic web applications, supported by major grants from the European Commission, Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), and Vienna Business Agency. Current projects include Legume-cereal intercropping for sustainable agriculture (2022-2026) and PlusIQ agricultural photovoltaics (2022-2023).

His research focuses on three interconnected domains:

• Sustainable Agriculture: Developing AI-driven digital twins for crop rotation optimization and pre-crop value modeling
• Privacy Engineering: Pioneering pseudonymization frameworks for healthcare data secondary use
• Smart Building Systems: Applying semantic web technologies to energy-efficient building design through the SEMERGY project

Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals a strategic shift from foundational security research (2013-2016) toward agricultural data science (2023-2024), with 60% of recent work addressing climate-resilient farming solutions. Early publications established taxonomies for privacy technologies, while current outputs focus on AI applications for sustainable agriculture.

Heurix has supervised diploma theses including Philipp Zimmermann's 2014 work on privacy technologies. His grant portfolio features:

• €2.1M Legume-cereal intercropping project (European Commission, 2022-2026)
• PlusIQ photovoltaics integration (FFG, 2022-2023)
• FarmIT digital agriculture initiative (Vienna Business Agency, 2021)

He operates within TU Wien's Data Science research group and collaborates with the SEMERGY consortium, working alongside architects, agricultural scientists, and healthcare institutions to develop practical implementations of his research.