Steering Board

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The Steering Board is the central decision-making body responsible for scientific, strategic, structural, and financial matters of IDEAS.

Key responsibilities

  • Develop IDEAS statutes in the first year
  • Review and select PhD proposals submitted by PI teams
  • Plan the yearly recruitment timeline and number of funded positions

Members

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Guido Juckeland

Contact

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

Research topics: 

Research Software Engineering, AI Consulting, Research Data Management

Website

Prof. Dr. Jakob Zscheischler

Contact

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

 

Website

PIs

Prof. Dr. Jana Schor

Contact

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

Website

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Westermayr

Contact

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

Website

Prof. Dr. Gerik Scheuermann

Contact

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. Larysa Baraban

Contact

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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Dr. Michael Bussmann

Contact

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. Stefanie Speidel

Contact

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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Coordinators

Dr. Sandra Hille
Coordinator IDEAS (UFZ)

Anne Pidt
Coordinator IDEAS (HZDR)

PhDs

The candidates will be published soon.

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