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AI-HUB@LMU Members
An overview of professors and associated research groups researching different aspects of AI and Data Science at LMU
AI-HUB@LMU is an interdisciplinary platform for AI and Data Science research connecting all faculties of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It is composed of members from diverse fields, a Steering Committee championing the initiative in their respective faculties, and led by three spokespersons.
Prof. Dr. Reiner Anselm
Research interests: Protestant Ethics Past and Present, Praxeologies of Protestant Christendom, Transformation of Protestant Ethical Concepts in the 20th Century, Applied Ethics in Politics, Democracy and Peace, Biomedical Ethics
Faculty of Protestant Theology
Prof. Dr. Franz Alto Bauer
Professor of Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Modern Greek studies
Research interests: Late Antique and Byzantine Art History, Archaeology, Ancient History, Urban Studies, Papal Policy in Early Medieval Rome, Monumental Inscriptions
Faculty for the Study of Culture
Prof. Dr. Bernd Bischl
Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science
Research interests: AutoML, Model Selection, Interpretable ML, Development of Statistical Software.
Univ. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. HDR Anne-Laure Boulesteix
Professor of Biometry with a focus on Molecular Medicine
Research interests: Medical/Computational Statistics, Omics Data Analysis, Regularized Regression, Machine Learning, Metascience Research Validation, Benchmarking, Publication Bias, Statistical Consulting in Medical Research.
Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Brosius
Chair of Communication Science
Research interests: Political Communication, Health Communication, Digitalization of Media, Media Psychology
Prof. Dr. jur. Martin Burgi
Chair of Public Law, Business Administrative Law, Environmental and Social Security Law
Research interests: AI regulation (especially regulation of neuro-technology) and commercial administrative law, AI-procurement law, AI-based medical and social law
Prof. Dr. Andreas Butz
Chair for Human-Computer-Interaction
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction Beyond the Desktop, Multimodal and Physical Interaction, Intelligent User Interfaces, Human-Robot Interaction, Explainable and Understandable UI+AI
Prof. Dr. Christian Böhm
Research interests: Unsupervised Machine Learning like Clustering, Dimensionality Reduction, Representation Learning with Applications to Medical Imaging; New Methods of High-Performance Machine Learning like Parallelization, Vectorization and Cache-Efficiency
Dr. Henrike Böhmer
Digital Education Coordinator, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Research interests: AI in Veterinarian Education, AI-supported Diagnosis, AI in Diagnostic Radiology and Laboratory Diagnostics
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Prof. Dr. Ophelia Deroy
Chair and Head of Philosophy of Mind/CVBE
Research interests: Philosophy of Mind, Neuroscience, Multisensory Rhetoric, Experimental Aesthetics, Technology and Engineering, Museum and Art Studio Collaboration.
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies
Prof. Chris Donkin, Ph.D.
Bavarian AI Chair for Cognitive Psychology
Research interests: Interested in cognitive psychology, particularly in developing and testing computational and mathematical models of cognitive processes
Prof. Dr. Florian Englmaier
Professor of Organizational Economics
Research interests: Economics of Organizations, Industrial Economics, Contract Theory, Behavioral Economics, Political Economcis, Experimental Economics
Prof. Dr. Oliver Falck
Research interests: How Policy can Promote Competitiveness and Innovation, How Technological Progress Affects The Economy and Society, Empirical Methods of Counterfactual Impact Analysis, AI with Unconventional (Big) Data.
Faculty of Economics
Prof. Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel
Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management
Research interests: AI for Businesses, Public Organizations, and Health Management
Faculty of Business Administration – Munich School of Management
Prof. Dr. Laurent Frantz
Professor of Animal Paleogenomics
Research interests: Evolutionary Genomics, Domestication, Speciation, Ancient DNA, Zooarchaeology, Bioinformatics
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Prof. Dr. jur. Martin Franzen
Chair of German, European and International Labour Law as well as Private Law
Research interests: European and international labour law; law of collective labour relations (collective bargaining, works constitution law); consumer contract law; data protection law. Interested in the impact of AI in these fields and in particular in the regulatory personal data protection framework of AI
Prof. Dr. Daniel Gruen
Bavarian AI Chair for Astrophysics, Cosmology and Artificial Intelligence
Research interests: Extragalactic Surveys, Cosmology, Gravitational Lensing Effect, Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Physics
Prof. Dr. jur. Mathias Habersack
Chair of Private and Business Law
Research interests: The Impact of AI on Company Law
Prof. Dr. Mario Haim
Chair of Communication Science, especially Computational Communication Research
Research interests: Political Communication, Computational Journalism, Algorithmic Curation in Media Environments, Computational Methods
Faculty of Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Stephan Hartmann
Chair and Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Research interests: General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of AI, Bayesian Cognitive Science, Formal Epistemology, Social Epistemology
Prof. Dr. Uta Hauck-Thum
Professor of Primary School Pedagogy and Primary School Didactics
Research interests: Teaching and Learning in Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence in Schools, Education for Sustainable Development, School Transformation.
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Prof. Dr. Ines Helm
Research interests: Applied Economics and Labor Economics, How Shocks like Technological progress Affect Local Labor Markets, Applied Methods in Economics
Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng
Chair for Theoretical Astrophysics of Extrasolar Planets
Research interests: Theory, Simulation, Observations, Phenomenology, and Geosciences of Exoplanets and their Atmospheres, Philosophy of Science
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess
Director of the Institute for Digital Management and New Media, LMU Munich School of Management
Research interests: Potential of ML-Based Solutions for New Products, New Customer Interfaces and New Business Processes
Dr. Levin Hornischer
Assistant Professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Research interests: Foundations of AI, Dynamical Systems, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Formal Theories in Mathematics and Logic.
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies
Dr. Sebastian Höhna
Emmy-Noether Research Group Leader
Research interests: Phylogenetic Relationship Estimation, Divergence Time and Molecular Evolution Rates, Lineage Diversification Analysis, Gene Tree Conflict Resolution, Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference, Adaptive Genetic Evolution, Macroevolutionary Pattern Modeling.
Faculty of Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Heiner Igel
Professor of Seismology/Geophysics
Research interests: Computational Seismology, Seismic Inverse Problems, Seismic Data Processing, Seismic Instrumentation, Elastic Wave Propagation, Earthquake Physics
Faculty of Geosciences
Prof. Dr. Michael Ingrisch
Research interests: Advanced Statistics, Machine Learning and Computer Vision Techniques in the Context Of Clinical Radiology, AI-Supported Diagnosis and Prognostication
Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Enrique Jiménez
Head of Electronic Babylonian Literature Group
Research interests: Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Ancient Near Eastern Science, Akkadian grammar, Digital Humanities
Dr. Jakob Kaiser
Postdoctoral Researcher, Experimental Neuro-Cognitive Psychologie
Research interests: Cognitive Control of Attention and Actions, Flexibility in Learning and Behaviour, Subjective Control Assumptions/Sense of Agency, Neural Mechanisms of Optimal Behaviour during Demanding Tasks
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Prof. Dr. Göran Kauermann
Chair of Applied Statistics in Social Sciences, Economics and Business
Research interests: Network Data Analysis; Advanced Regression Models; Quantification of Uncertainty; Statistical Reasoning in Political Sciences, Historical Sciences, Epidemiology, Economics and Business; Data science in General
Prof. Dr. Alexander Keller
Head of the Cellular and Organismic Networks Group
Research interests: Field Ecology and Bioinformatics, Next-Generation Sequencing, Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Phylogenetic Reconstructions, Environmental and Spatial Ecology, Genomic Interactions, Computational Workflows in Ecology, Plant-Microbe-Pollinator Interactions, Ecosystem Health, Biodiversity Conservation.
Faculty of Biology
Prof. James Kirby, Ph.D.
Bavarian AI Chair of Spoken Language Processing
Research interests: Sound Change, Computational and Statistical Methods in Phonetics, Tone and Register, Language and Music, Languages of Southeast Asia
Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Chair of Precision Psychiatry, LMU Clinics for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Research interests: Early Recognition of Psychotic and Affective Disorders, Neuroimaging, Machine Learning/AI in Translational Research, Biomarkers, Stratified Clinical Trials.
Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Johann Kranz
Director of the Professorship of Digital Services and Sustainability
Research interests: Managing AI Projects, Building and Maintaining an AI Factory, Human-AI Interaction, Managing AI Ethics
Prof. Dr. Jochen Kuhn
Research interests: Natural Science Teacher Education, Multimedia-Based Science Learning, AI Learning Applications, Eye-Tracking for Educational Research
Faculty of Physics
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuhr
Project Leader Experimental Flavor Physics
Research interests: AI Applications in Particle Physics, Generative Models for Fast Simulations, Graph Neural Networks for Event Classification
Faculty of Physics
Prof. Dr. Guillaume Landry
Professor of Medical Physics Research Group at the Department of Radiation Oncology
Research interests: Deep Learning, Image Registration, Imaging Science, Image Guided Therapy via MR-linac Technology, Radiation Therapy
Prof. Dr. Lukas Lehnert
Professor for Physical Geography and Environmental Remote Sensing
Research interests: Sustainable Development of Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem, Crop Yield Forecast in Benin and Morocco using EO Data, Fusion of Radar and Lidar Satellite Data for Forest Structure Analysis using Model-Based and AI Methods
Faculty of Geosciences
Prof. Dr. jur. Matthias Leistner, LL.M. (Cambridge)
Chair of Private Law and Intellectual Property Law, with Information and IT-Law (GRUR-Chair)
Research interests: IP regulation of AI (e.g. relevance of patents, know how protection, copyright); competition law regulation of AI and big data (e.g. anti-trust issues, EU Digital Markets Act, fairness and bias, access to data); privacy-related regulation of AI (e.g. GDPR, civil law protection of personality rights); sector-specific regulation of AI (e.g. EU Data Act, AI Act, Digital Services Act)
Faculty of Law
Prof. Dr. Hannes Leitgeb
Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language, Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Research interests: Logic, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mathematics
Prof. Dr. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
Chair for Mobile and Distributed Systems, Institute of Informatics
Research interests: Quantum Computing, Quantum Software, Quantum Machine Learning, (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, Autonomous Systems, Federal and Distributed Learning, Anomaly Detection and Uncertainty, Ubiquitous Computing
Prof. Dr. Christian List
Chair and Head of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Research interests: Decision Theory, Social Choice Theory, Philosophy of Mind and Action, Metaphysics, Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
Dr. jur. Ann-Kristin Mayrhofer
Akademische Rätin a. Z., Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure, European Private Law and Procedure
Research interests: Civil Law, Civil Procedure, Digital Law, Legal Tech
Prof. Dr. Wiktor Młynarski
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Research interests: Neural System Functions, Normative Theories, Experimental Collaboration, Sensory Analysis, Environmental Inference, Adaptation Mechanisms, Information Theory
Faculty of Biology
Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm
Professor for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Research interests: AI Ethics, Autonomous Vehicles, Decision Systems, Robotics, AI in Healthcare and Military, Interdisciplinary AI Research.
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies
Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer
Bavarian AI Chair and Head Of The Machine Vision & Learning Group
Research interests: Semantic Image and Video Understanding based on (Deep) Machine Learning, Generative Approaches For Visual Synthesis, Invertible Deep Models For Explainable AI, Deep Metric and Representation Learning, Self-Supervised Learning Paradigms and their Interdisciplinary Applications in the Digital Humanities and Neuroscience
Faculty of History and the Arts
Prof. Dr. Katia Parodi
Chair of Experimental Physics – Medical Physics
Research interests: Application of AI in medical physics with focus on new technologies and workflows of image- and dose-guided radiotherapy
Prof. Dr. Andreas Peichl
Research interests: Public Economics, Taxation and Redistribution, Inequality, Macroeconomic Expectations
Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank
Bavarian AI Chair of AI and Computational Linguistics
Research interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, domain adaptation, multilingual NLP, multitask learning, transfer learning, parsing, sequence tagging, opinion mining, information extraction, NLP for social media
Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Prof. Dr. Lode Pollet
Chair for Quantum Matter Theory
Research interests: Strongly Correlated Systems, Ultracold Atomic Gases, Supersolids, Topological Phases, Computational Physics, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Dr. Holger Rauhut
Chair for Mathematics of Information Processing
Research interests: Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning, Mathematics of Signal Processing, Deep Learning, Compressive Sensing, Random Matrices, Applied Harmonic Analysis, Continuous Optimization, Approximation Theory
Prof. Dr. Ryan Riordan
Head of Institute for Financial Innovation & Technology
Research interests: Technology in Financial Markets, High Frequency Trading, Intersection of Climate Risks and Asset Pricing
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt
Head of Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media Group
Research interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computer Systems, Media Technology, Robotics
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schubert
Research Group Spatial Artificial Intelligence
Research interests: Sequentiell Planning and Reinforcement Learning, Spatial Analytics in dynamic Environment, Remote Sensing, Game Analytics
Prof. Dr. Carsten Schwemmer
Professor of Sociology and Computational Social Sciences
Research interests: Computational Social Science, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Digital Media & Communication, Political Sociology, Sociotechnical Systems, NLP, Images as Data
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schärtl-Trendel
Chair for Fundamental Theology
Research interests: Theory of Religious Belief, Fundamental Theology, Interreligious God Concepts, Atheism Studies, Theological Science Theory, Language of Faith, Trinitarian Theology, Incarnation Dogma Consistency, Metaphysical Resurrection Modeling
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze
Chair of Computational Linguistics Director, Center for Information and Language Processing
Research interests: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, Statistical Natural Language Processing, Representation Learning, Multilinguality, Human-AI Cooperation
Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl
Chair of Database Systems and Data Mining
Research interests: Clustering, Process Mining, Remote Sensing & Imaging, Active Learning, Graph Machine Learning, Machine Learning with limited labeled data, (Deep) Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning with Knowledge Basis, Semi-/Supervised Natural-Language-Processing
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
Prof. Dr. jur. Andreas Spickhoff
Chair of Private and Medical Law
Research interests: AI liability, product liability, tortious liability, especially liability for medical devices
Dr. Angelika Stefan
Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Computational Modeling in Psychology
Research interests: Empirical Research in Social Sciences, Bayesian Statistics, Research Design, Model Comparison, Analytic Flexibility
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Prof. Dr. Neil Thurman
Professor of Communication with an emphasis on Computational Journalism
Research interests: Computational Journalism, Automated Journalism, Natural Language Generation, Audience Perceptions, News Recommender Systems, News Personalization, Event Detection, Social Media Monitoring
Prof. Dr. Paul W. Thurner
Chair of Empirical Political Research and Policy Analysis
Research interests: Electoral Research, Discrete Choice Analysis & Network Analysis, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Defence and Security Policy, Transgovernmental Administrative Cooperation
Prof. Dr. Oliver Trapp
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Research interests: Self-Amplifying Catalyst Design, Ligand Synthesis, Prebiotic Chemistry, High-Throughput Catalyst Screening, Reaction Kinetics Analysis, Multiplexing Techniques, Reaction Chromatography, Nanoparticle Catalysis, Enantioselective Chromatography and Electrophoresis
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Prof. Dr. Volker Tresp
Professor of Cognitive Deep Learning
Research interests: Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs and Scene Graphs, Statistical Relational Learning, Cognitive Models for Perception and Memory, Multimodal Learning and Lifelong Learning, Learning Medical Decision Support, Quantum Machine Learning
Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa
Professor of Media Anthropology and Program in Media Anthropology and Digital Studies
Research interests: Digital Politics, Politics of Artificial Intelligence, Global Digital Cultures, Online Extreme Speech and Hate Speech, News and Journalism, Urban Politics, and Media Policy.
Prof. Dr. Kristian Unger
Professor for AI-assisted Clinical Decision Support in Oncology
Research interests: Clinical Decision Support, Explainable AI, Oncology, Genetic Data
Prof. Dr. Jochen Weller
Head of Physical Cosmology Research Group
Research interests: Physical Cosmology, Dark Energy, Galaxy Clusters, Cosmic Microwave Background, Modified Gravity, Dark Matter, Large-Scale Structure, AI Methods
Prof. Dr. Ruth Wendt
Professor of Communication science with a focus on Digital Literacy in Algorithmic Spaces
Research interests: Media Literacy, Media Use & Media Impact; Media Socialization & Media Education
Prof. Dr. Joachim Winter
Chair of Empirical Economic Research
Research interests: Individual Decision-Making, in particular Saving, Portfolio and Insurance Choices; The Design and Analysis of Household Surveys; The Effects of Shocks and Interventions in Childhood
Faculty of Economics
Prof. Dr. Alexander Wuttke
Professor of Digitalization and Political Behavior
Research interests: Causal Inference, Computational Social Science, Open Science, Political Psychology, Democracy Research
Faculty of Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. jur. Mark A. Zöller
Research interests: Criminal Law and Procedure, Business Criminal Law and Legal Tech
Faculty of Law