Dr. Vitek holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and a PhD in Statistics from Purdue University. She interned at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, and held a position of post-doctoral associate in the Aebersold lab at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. In Fall 2006 she came back to Purdue as an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Computer Science. Research in Dr. Vitek's lab focuses on statistical and computational methods for systems biology, in particular for functional proteomics, metabolomics, and ionomics, in order to increase the sensitivity and the accuracy of these investigations and to deepen their insight into the biological function.