Hector Geffner is seen as one of the leading minds on the global AI stage and a pioneer of automated planning. In Aachen, he is invited to enhance Germany’s visibility as an AI hub and help to further Europe’s vanguard position in developing trustworthy, human-centred AI.
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Hanna Kokko enjoys a worldwide reputation as a theoretical biologist. With her arrival, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is set to become an internationally recognised centre for theoretical biology.
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Edvardas Narevicius is one of the pioneers of ultra-low temperature chemistry. His experiments make it possible to observe novel quantum effects. He is invited to TU Dortmund University to reinforce the focus in experimental and theoretical quantum optics.
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Ingmar Weber conducts research at the interface of the social sciences and artificial intelligence. He uses statistical methods to analyse data generated by social platforms in order to make statements about political polarisation or to model migration movements.
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By developing and applying differential dynamic logics, André Platzer has made a crucial contribution to testing the security of cyber-physical systems in, for example, traffic, aviation and shipping as well as robotics.
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How do war and violence affect children psychologically? And how can children overcome such traumas? These are the kind of questions the psychologist Tina Malti explores in her research on childhood development. As the new director of the Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development (LFE), she will be able to boost the centre’s international repute.
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence 2020 Peter Dayan At the University of Tübingen, Peter Dayan will connect informatics and neuroscience, also building bridges to clinica
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2020 Francisco Moreno-Fernández At the University of Heidelberg, Francisco Moreno-Fernández is set to head the new interdisciplinary Heidelberg Center for Ibero-Am
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At the University of Cologne, Bart Thomma is to continue his research on soil organisms and their interactions with plants. He is expected to head a new Centre for Microbial Interactomics that is due to be established and within which he will focus on evolutionary microbiology. He will also cooperate with human biologists. After all, if we understand more about the genetics and interactions of microorganisms in the soil, this could be of use to medicine, too – in improving antibiotics, for instance.
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With its university and non-university research institutes, the University of Tübingen already has a very broadly established portfolio in educational science with a focus on the intersection of educational practice and research. Murayama’s appointment as a Humboldt Professor aims to expand educational research yet further and intensify its interdisciplinary approach.
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