“Young, smart, innovative: the AI talents of today will have a decisive impact on our society of tomorrow. That is why we are supporting ten excellent postdocs and their AI projects with a total of around five million Euro,” announced the Minister of State for Science and the Arts, Markus Blume, today in Munich.
Joining the Graduate Center at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation offers postdocs an excellent environment for their research on topics such as responsible decision-making in medicine, online youth protection in the age of AI or safety in autonomous driving.
Markus Blume, Minister of State for Science and the Arts
The Minister of State for Science and the Arts continued: “In this way, we are providing particularly talented young AI researchers long-term support in developing their own research profile as the basis for a long-term career in science. It’s a fact: artificial intelligence will significantly change our lives in many areas and we want to help shape this process in line with our values.”
BIDT GRADUATE CENTER
The funded scientists work at universities in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Munich, Ingolstadt, Regensburg and Würzburg. In disciplines such as biomedicine, environmental sciences, mathematics, digital forensics and business informatics, they are researching various fields of application for AI. They are dealing with questions of social sciences as well as philosophy in connection with this forward-looking technology.
Up to four years of funding from January 2025
From January 2025, the researchers, who are at the beginning of their scientific careers, will be accepted into the Graduate Centre at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), an institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The funding is intended for a period of up to four years. It includes personnel funding for the postdocs, research funding and support for networking and further qualification in the field of digitalisation. The talented researchers and their proposed projects were recommended for funding by a committee of experts from outside Bavaria.
The aim of the funding line is to support particularly qualified young scientists from the first or second year after their doctorate in developing a research profile and thus qualifying them to remain in science. The Bavaria-wide Graduate Centre is coordinated by the bidt. With its diverse research projects and dialogue activities, it offers the best framework conditions for the planned projects.
The following researchers and their research projects are being funded
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2):
- Dr Hryhorii Chereda: Targeted Explanations for Predictive Models in Personalized Cancer Biology;
- Dr Kevin Mayer: AI-Driven Digital Forensics: Enhancing Evidential Integrity and Efficiency through Generative Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Representation;
- Dr Jeanine Kirchner-Krath: eCo-CreAItion: Exploring Human-AI Co-Creativity for Sustainability Innovations
Technical University of Munich (3):
- Dr Mathilde Letard: AI4ENV: AI-driven 4D Data Analysis for Environmental Monitoring;
- Dr Alexander Schell: Advancing Sequential AI Models: New Mathematics to Bridge Stochastic Dynamics and Machine Learning;
- Dr Angelina Voggenreiter: Youth Safety in an AI-Driven Online World
Ingolstadt University of Technology:
- Dr Gerald Joy Sequeira: AI-supported safety systems for automated driving (AI-Safe)
Munich School of Philosophy:
- Dr Carolin Rutzmoser: AI in the crisis. Opportunities and dangers of generative AI in life crises from an action-theoretical and ethical perspective
University of Regensburg:
- Dr Kata Vuk: From Data to Discovery in the Healthcare Information Age: Interpretable Machine Learning with Piecewise Constant Models
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg:
- Dr Adrian Krenzer: A Question of Trust: Developing Explainable AI for Responsible Medical Decision Making
Source: Press release of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, 17.09.2024
