Principal Investigators

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  4. Principal Investigators / Supervisors

IDEAS PIs are selected for their motivation to bridge domain science and data science. The supervision model explicitly pairs expertise across institutions and disciplines.

Dr. Agnes Toth-Petroczy

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Dr. Agnes Toth-Petroczy
TU Dresden (Center for Systems Biology Dresden / MPI-CBG - Protein Plasticity and Evolution Group)
MPI

Research topics: 

computational biology, machine learning, software development, molecular evolution, intrinsically disordered proteins, biomolecular condensates, transcription and translation errors

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Dr. Anna Poetsch

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Dr. Anna Poetsch
TU Dresden (Dresden International Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Life Sciences - Biomedical Genomics Group)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Bio-Data Science, Genomics, DNA Language Modelling

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Prof. Dr. Anna Wienhard

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Prof. Dr. Anna Wienhard
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Leipzig University
ScaDS.AI, Leipzig University

Research topics: 

Lie groups and their discrete subgroups, positivity, geometric machine learning, topological data analysis

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Prof. Artur Yakimovich

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Prof. Artur Yakimovich
HZDR (Machine Learning for Infection and Disease Group)

Research topics: 

Biomedical Image Analysis, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Microscopy, Pathogens

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Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann

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Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann
Leipzig University (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science /Institute for Informatics - Image and Signal Processing Group)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Image and signal processing, Visualization, visual analytics, topological data analysis

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Prof. Dr. Guido Juckeland

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Prof. Dr. Guido Juckeland
HZDR (Department Computational Science)
TU Dresden

Research topics: 

Research Software Engineering, AI Consulting, Research Data Management

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Prof. Dr. Jakob Zscheischler

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Prof. Dr. Jakob Zscheischler
UFZ (Department of Compound Environmental Risks - Compound Event Impacts Group)
TU Dresden
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Climate extremes, compound events, interpretable machine learning

 

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Prof. Dr. Jana Schor

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Prof. Dr. Jana Schor
UFZ (Department Computational Biology & Chemistry - Bio-Data Science Group)
Leipzig University

Research topics: 

Bio-Data Science, Generative AI, Graph Neural Networks, Graph Databases as tool for data integration and analysis, Explainable AI and quantification of uncertainty

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Hackermüller

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Hackermüller
UFZ (Department Computational Biology and Chemistry)
Leipzig University

Research topics: 

Bioinformatics, omics data analysis and integration, AI in toxicology

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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Westermayr

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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Westermayr
Leipzig University (Faculty of Chemistry/Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry - Theoretical Chemistry of Material Design Group)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Theoretical (photo)chemistry, machine learning, generative modeling, data analysis, data science

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Prof. Dr. Justin Calabrese

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Prof. Dr. Justin Calabrese
CASUS (Earth System Science Group)
HZDR

Research topics: 

Animal movement, biodiversity in rivers, ecological data science

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Dr. Larisa Tarasova

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Dr. Larisa Tarasova
UFZ (Department Catchment Hydrology - Watershed Dynamics & Hydrological Extremes Group)

Research topics: 

water extremes, S2S forecasting, interpretable machine learning

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Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard

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Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard
TU Dresden (Institute of Geography - Chair of Geoinformatics)

Research topics: 

Design of geo-information infrastructure, interoperable spatio-temporal simulation modelling, sensor systems

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Prof. Dr. Larysa Baraban

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Prof. Dr. Larysa Baraban
HZDR (Institute Radio­pharma­ceutical Cancer Research / Department Nano-Microsystems for Life Sciences)
TU Dresden

Research topics: 

Digital twin and surrogate modeling using artificial intelligence, federated data analytics of real world health evidence

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Prof. Dr. Manuel Burghardt

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Prof. Dr. Manuel Burghardt
Leipzig University (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science / Institute for Informatics - Computational Humanities Group)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Computational and Literary Biodiversity Studies, Digital Environmental Humanities, Computational Social Science

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Dr. Mariana Madruga de Brito

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Dr. Mariana Madruga de Brito
UFZ (Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology - Computational Social Sciences for Extreme Events Group)

Research topics: 

Climate change impacts, complex risks, natural language processing

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Prof. Dr. Martin Weigert

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Prof. Dr. Martin Weigert
TU Dresden (Institute for Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning for Spatial Understanding Group)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Water extremes, S2S forecasting, interpretable machine learning

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Dr. Michael Bussmann

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Dr. Michael Bussmann
CASUS (Computational Radiation Physics Group)
HZDR
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Laser-plasma interaction for applications in accelerator research, high-energy density physics and laboratory astrophysics. Development of the PIConGPU code for simulating large-scale plasma physics on many-core HPC architectures. Single-source, performance portable manycore software development with Alpaka, high data rate analysis in X-ray imaging with GPUs.

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Prof. Dr. Miguel D. Mahecha

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Prof. Dr. Miguel D. Mahecha
Leipzig University (Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences / Institute for Earth Systems Science and Remote Sensing & RSC4Earth)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Land surface monitoring, machine learning for the environment, climate extreme impacts, big data analytics, tree mortality detection with AI, data cubes for earth system science

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Prof. Dr. Pedram Ghamisi

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Prof. Dr. Pedram Ghamisi
HZDR (Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) / Department of Exploration - Learning Group)

Research topics: 

Artificial intelligence for Earth Observation

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Prof. Dr. Peter Florian Stadler

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Prof. Dr. Peter Florian Stadler
Leipzig University (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science / Institute for Informatics - Bioinformatics Group)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Climate extremes, compound events, interpretable machine learning

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Prof. Dr. Simon Razniewski

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Prof. Dr. Simon Razniewski
TU Dresden (International Center For Computational Logic - Knowledge-Aware AI Group)
ScaDS.AI

Research topics: 

Language models, knowledge bases, information extraction, commonsense knowledge

 

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Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel

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Prof. Dr. Stefanie Speidel
TU Dresden (National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden - Department of Translational Surgical Oncology)
HZDR
DKFZ

Research topics: 

Machine learning for computer/robot-assisted surgery, Surgical Data Science, Embodied SurgicalAI

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Prof. Dr. Steffen Löck

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Prof. Dr. Steffen Löck
HZDR (Center OncoRay - Modeling and Biostatistics in Radiation Oncology Group)

Research topics: 

Artificial intelligence for personalised cancer treatment (radiomics, genomics), modelling of side effects after proton therapy and of the relative biological effectiveness of protons, design and evaluation of clinical and preclinical trials.

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Dr. Susanne Dunker

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Dr. Susanne Dunker
UFZ (Department for Physiological Diversity - Imaging Flow Cytometry Group)
iDIV

Research topics: 

Air and water quality aspects related to biogenic microscopic particles, machine learning, plantpollinator interactions, medicine

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Dr. Ulisses Nunes da Rocha

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Dr. Ulisses Nunes da Rocha
UFZ (Department of Computational Biology and Chemistry - Microbial Systems Data Science Group)

Research topics: 

Microbial Ecology, Computational Biology, Predictive Analytics

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