The Bavarian AI Council advises the Bavarian State Government on strategic issues related to Artificial Intelligence and provides impetus for key initiatives in the BAIOSPHERE.

To chair Prof. Fabian Theis (TU Munich and Helmholtz Munich, Director Computational Health) Prof. Björn Ommer (LMU Munich, Head of Computer Vision & Learning Group) and Thomas Hahn (SiemensAG, Chief Expert Software and President, Big Data Value Association).

Seven international ambassadors increase the visibility of "AI - Made in Bavaria" and bring in global networks.

Chairperson of the Bavarian AI Council

Projects and Focus Areas of the AI Council

The Bavarian AI Council is a key player in the design and implementation of AI initiatives in the Free State of Bavaria. It initiates groundbreaking projects, advises the state government on strategic decisions, and drives the development of innovative technologies. Some of the most significant projects include:

• Blue Swan: Bayern's proposal for an AI Gigafactory of the EU. It includes the development of AI infrastructure and strategic consulting for large-scale data centers to establish Bayern as a leading location for trustworthy AI and strengthen European digital sovereignty.

• Bavarian AI Foundation Model Initiative: The goal is to develop a multimodal AI base model according to European standards, which strengthens the collaboration between research and industry in the Free State.

• Bavarian Cloud for Health Research: Establishment of an infrastructure that enables the secure and data protection-compliant use of data for medical AI research. The platform promotes innovative approaches to improve diagnoses and treatments through the use of advanced AI technologies.

• BIOSPHERE MONITOR: Strategic project to promote AI development in Bavaria in cooperation with the Bavarian AI Agency. It prioritizes thematic areas and develops visions and action plans to establish Bavaria as a leading European ecosystem for AI.

• European AI Act & Regulatory Issues: Expert opinions and workshops on the European AI Regulation (AI Act).

• BIOSPHERE x SSC: This platform promotes interdisciplinary networking. Workshops and events take place in a monastic atmosphere at the Speinshart Scientific Center for AI and SuperTech, encouraging the exchange of creative ideas and innovative approaches.

In addition, individual members of the AI Council regularly comment on current developments in Artificial Intelligence and contribute to socio-political debates.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian J. Theis

Head of the Computational Health Center and Director of the Institute of Computational Biology.Helmholtz Zentrum München(Chairman of the AI Council)

Research interests and focus areas

Development of machine and deep learning methods for the analysis and modeling of biomedical data, particularly from single-cell genomics.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2023 Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation

• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) since 2022

• Director of the ELLIS Unit Munich since 2020.

• Since 2019 coordinator of the Munich School for Data Science (MUDS)

• Since 2018 founder and coordinator of the Single Cell Omics Germany (SCOG) network.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alin Albu-Schäffer

Professor of Sensor-Based Robotic Systems and Intelligent Assistance Systems, Director of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics.German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen.

Research interests and focus areas

High-performance mechatronic systems, especially robots; AI methods for their intelligent operation; AI methods for natural, safe, and efficient human-machine interfaces; Application areas: aerospace, medicine, rehabilitation and care, automated and connected production, mobile autonomous systems for logistics, inspection, and maintenance.

Most important awards and memberships:

• IEEE Fellow

• Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

• Member of the euRobotics Board of Directors and founding member of euRobotics

• AdCom Member IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

• 2019 Awarding of the ERC Advanced Grant

Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert

Institute managementFraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), MunichChair of Security in Computer Science at theTechnical University of Munich and President of acatech.

Research interests and focus areas

Technologies for assessing and improving the cybersecurity of products, connected systems, and infrastructures; technologies for enhancing the resilience and robustness of systems against attacks.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW)

• Member of the Executive Board of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

• Induction into the Hall of Fame of German Research

• Awarded with the State Medal for special merits to the Bavarian economy.

Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D.

DirectorMax Planck Institute for Innovation and CompetitionI'm sorry, but I cannot provide a translation without any text to work with. Please provide the text you would like me to translate into English.Munich

Research interests and focus areas

Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Digitalization; Venture capital; Corporate strategies; Economic policy.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2019 Chairman of the founding commission of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND), member of the supervisory board since 2020.

• 2019 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for services to the Federal Republic of Germany

• 2019-2021 Member of the Board of Directors of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)

• Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (BAdW) since 2015.

• 2010 Co-Founder, German Accelerator

Prof. Dr. Alexander Martin

Institute managementFraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), founding vice president for research, innovation & entrepreneurship of theTU Nürnberg (UTN). ManagerADA Lovelace Center, Nuremberg.

Research interests and focus areas

Data Analytics; AI algorithms, especially mathematical optimization with applications in energy management as well as in production and logistics.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member of the DFG Senate and Grants Committee for Research Training Groups since 2019.

• 2016 EURO Excellence in Practice Award

• Member of the board of the Society for Operations Research since 2019, chairman of the board since 2023.

• Spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR 154 "Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Optimization using the Example of Gas Networks"

Prof. Dr. Thomas Seidl

Professor of Database Systems and Data Mining.LMU MunichDirectorMunich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), member of the board of directors of theLeibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).

Research interests and focus areas

Data Mining; Machine Learning; Data Science and Database Technology for AI; Process Mining.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Since 2018, spokesperson of the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), National Competence Center for AI.

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) since 2019.

• Member of the management team of the Fraunhofer IIS ADA Lovelace Center at LMU Munich since 2018.

• Since 2016 co-spokesperson of the Elite Master's Program in Data Science, funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria.

• 2019-2020 Member of the Expert Commission EK|KI.BY2020 of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art (StMWK)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mario Trapp

Institute managementFraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS), MunichProfessor of Engineering Resilient Cognitive Systems.Technical University of Munich.

Research interests and focus areas

Cognitive Systems: Technical systems, machines, and processes in which Artificial Intelligence is used to realize their functionality; Resilience: Technical systems that continue to function reliably even in the face of massive internal and external disruptions or influences; "Safe Intelligence": Development of Cognitive Systems with guaranteed, secure functionality (e.g. autonomous driving, intelligent automated production, medical technology); Software-Systems Engineering for Cognitive Systems.

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André

Professor of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence,University of Augsburg.

Research interests and focus areas

Human-Technology Interaction; Multimodal analysis (physiological data, eye movements, speech, gestures); tangible and haptic user interfaces; interaction techniques for augmented realities; socially interactive virtual characters and robots.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2024 Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

• 2022021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

• Selected in 2019 by the Society for Computer Science as one of the "Ten Influential Figures in the History of German AI".

• Member of the CHI Academy (SIGCHI) since 2017.

• Since 2014 Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)

• Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2010.

Prof. Dr. Angela Schoellig

Professor for Security, Performance, and Reliability of Learning Systems & Director Industry and International ofMunich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich.

Research interests and focus areas

Robotics, control and automation engineering, and machine learning.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2022 Infineon Foundation Chair "Safety, Performance and Reliability of Learning Systems"

• 2019 Canada CIFAR AI Chair from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

• 2017 Prize of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science for Young Researchers

Prof. Dr. Dr. Eric Hilgendorf

Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Legal Theory, Information Law, and Legal Informatics.JMU Würzburg.

Research interests and focus areas

Legal framework for Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence; Technology and Media Criminal Law, especially Computer and Internet Criminal Law; Medical and Bio Criminal Law; Fundamental issues of Criminal Law; International legal harmonization.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Director at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), Munich

• Member of the European High Level Expert Group on AI

• Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

• Member of the Global Faculty of Peking Law School

• 2016-2017 Member of the Ethics Commission for Automated and Connected Driving

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Jacob

Professor of Manufacturing Automation and Robotics, Vice President.HAW Kempten.

Research interests and focus areas

Manufacturing automation and robotics, application of industrial robots, human-robot collaboration, AI application for industrial robots.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Best Mechanical Engineering Company 2017 - VDMA

• Award for Outstanding Teaching 2020 - Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier

Professor of Computer Science (CS) Pattern Recognition.FAU Nuremberg.

Research interests and focus areas

Pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision, and medical imaging.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2016 Member of the Steering Committee of the European Time Machine Consortium

• 2018 ERC Synergy Grant "4D nanoscope"

Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer

Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Computer Vision and Digital Humanities/the Arts.LMU Munich (Co-Chair of the AI Council).

Research interests and focus areas

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Learning Semantic Image Representations and Metrics, Explainable AI, Interdisciplinary Applications in Digital Humanities and Neuroscience.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

• Fellow of the ELLIS Society

• ETH Medal for outstanding PhD thesis

Prof. Dr. Ute Schmid

Professor of Cognitive Systems.University of Bamberg.

Research interests and focus areas

Hybrid Artificial Intelligence; Interpretable approaches of machine learning, especially inductive programming; Explanatory interactive machine learning; Intelligent tutoring systems; AI in medical diagnostics.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)

• 2022020 winner of the Rainer Markgraf Prize

• Since 2020 head of the Fraunhofer IIS project group Explainable AI (Comprehensible Artificial Intelligence)

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) since 2020.

• 2018 Minerva Informatics Equality Award by Informatics Europe for the faculty as the first German university

Thomas Hahn

Chief Expert Software, Corporate Technology, Research in Digitalization and Predevelopment.Siemens AG Erlangen(Co-Chair of the AI Council).

Research interests and focus areas

Business technology (automation, digitalization), specifically software, data, AI, and robotics in research and application; scaling through new business opportunities (platforms and ecosystems) and integration specifically of SMEs; standardization (automation, digitalization).

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member Steering Committee Platform Industry 4.0

• Chairman Lab Network Industry 4.0

• Board member of GAIA-X

• Vice President OPC Foundation

• Member of the HLEG Standardization of the EC. Focus: Digitalization.

Dr. Anna Bauer-Mehren

Global Head Analytics (Data & Analytics), Pharma Research and Early Development.Rock.

Research interests and focus areas

Data analysis using AI for improved research and development of personalized medicine; Analysis of high-dimensional data such as genomic data, data from electronic health records, imaging data, and sensor data; Innovative health solutions; Companion Diagnostics.

Dr. Wieland Holfelder

Vice President of Engineering and Head of Google Development Center.Google Germany.

Research interests and focus areas

Data protection and data security; Sovereign Cloud and Cloud Security; Artificial Intelligence; Open Platforms and Ecosystems; Sustainability.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member of the Supervisory Board of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

• Member of the Supervisory Board of the University Hospital Munich Right of the Isar (MRI)

• Member of the Senate of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)

• Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Museum

• Awarded by the Society for Computer Science as a GI Fellow

Andrea Martin

CTO ecosystem and associationsIBM DACHManagerIBM Watson Center Munich.

Research interests and focus areas

Artificial Intelligence (AI) - especially AI & Ethics, Human Friendly Automation; Digital Transformation; future IT trends and innovation; Speaker and panelist at events, especially on the topics mentioned above; Mentoring of (technical) employees within and outside IBM.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2024 member of the Science Council

• 2018-2020 Member of the Enquete Commission "Artificial Intelligence" of the German Bundestag

• Member or advisory board member of Society of Women Engineers, Initiative D21, #SheTransformsIT, bidt, Wertekommission e.V.

• 2014-2015 President of the IBM Academy of Technology

• IT Woman of the Year 2017 for Technical Innovation and 2020 for Leadership - Executive Manager / CxO

• Manager of the Year "AI & Robotics" 2020

Dr. Felix Reinshagen

CEONavVis GmbH, Munich.

Research interests and focus areas

3D mapping of buildings and facilities; Digital twins for the industry; Visual positioning and persistent augmented reality.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member of the Atlantik Brücke

• Board member atinflate

Prof. Dr. Patrick van der Smagt

AI Expert.Foundation Robotics Lab.

Research interests and focus areas

AI for humanoid robotics, probabilistic deep learning, optimal control and reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Leader and initiator of etami (ethical and trustworthy artificial and machine intelligence)

• 2018 Webit Best Implementation of AI Award

• 2014 King-Sun Fu Memorial Prize

• 2013 Harvard Medical School/MGH Martin Research Prize

• 2012 Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Helmholtz Association

Dr.-Ing. Michael Würtenberger

Vice President Business Line My Journey, E-Mobility.BMW Group.

Research interests and focus areas

Connected Company: Development and operation of geobased services, services for electromobility; Technologies: Computer Vision, machine learning, processing of geospatial information, natural language understanding, software development.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Reviewer for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Dr. Andreas Liebl

Managing director ofappliedAI Initiativeand theappliedAI Institute for Europewith the aim of "shaping Europe's innovation power in AI".

Research interests and focus areas

Focus on topics related to AI innovation, application of AI, and commercialization at the European and global levels, regulatory and political frameworks.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member of the Steering Committee of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI)

• Member of the platform Learning Systems in the field of business model innovation.

• Trustee of the Heinz and Heide Dürr Foundation

• Top 40 under 40 of Capital Magazine

• Management of UnternehmerTUM

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl

Chairholder Oskar von Miller Chair of Science Communication School of Social Sciences and Physics Department.Technical University of Munich and until 2025 Director General ofGerman MuseumI'm sorry, but you haven't provided any text to translate. Please provide the text you would like me to translate into English.

Research interests and focus areas

Molecular self-organization in the field of nanotechnology, science communication.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2019 Arthur Burkhardt Prize for Science Communication and Reorientation of the German Museum (Award Ceremony 2021)

• 2017 Golden Hermann Oberth Medal on the ribbon for outstanding scientific and technical achievements in the field of spaceflight.

• 2015 Eduard Rhein Foundation Ring for Science and Public Welfare

• 2011 election to the European Academy of Sciences

• 2008 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

• 2004 Descartes Prize for Science Communication of the European Union

• 2002 Communicator Award of the German Research Foundation

• 1993 Philip Morris Research Award

Dr. Rainer Seßner

Chief Executive Officer and Managing DirectorBayern Innovativ GmbH.

Research interests and focus areas

Technology and innovation management; roadmapping and trend-scouting; digitization of services and business model innovations focusing on technology and knowledge transfer, consulting and funding of technology and innovation.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2023 Nominee Rudolph Diesel Medal, "Best Innovation Promotion"

• 2023 FAU-Fellow, member of the elite-alumni network of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

• Since 2021 Advisory board member Fraunhofer IGCV, MULTIMATERIAL-Zentrum Augsburg

• 2019 – 2021 TOP 100 – Germany’s most innovative SMEs

• 2017 - 2019 Board member of DTI - German Association for Technology Transfer and Innovation e.V.

• 2017 – 2018 Spokesperson for the Bavarian Research and Innovation Agency (BayFIA)

Prof. Dr. Alexander Pretschner

Chairman inprayDirectorate and member of the Executive Committee | Professor of Software & Systems Engineering.Technical University of MunichChairman of the Scientific Directorate,fortiss.

Research interests and focus areas

Systems & Software Engineering, Security of Distributed Data and Systems, Usage Control (Demo Videos), Data Protection, Model-Based Testing, Automated Test Case Generation, Model-Based Development.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2022 Test-of-Time Runner-Up award at ISSRE

• 2020 2nd place Supervisory Award from the TUM Graduate Center "Center of Doctoral Studies in Informatics and its Applications" for outstanding supervision of doctoral students.

• 2012, 2013 IBM Faculty Award

• 2011, 2012 Google Focused Research Award

• 2008-2013 Fraunhofer Attract

• 1999 Fulbright Scholarship

Prof. Dr. Oussama Khatib

Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Robotics Laboratory at theStanford University.

Research interests and focus areas

Robotics, human-robot interaction, human-friendly design for advanced capabilities in complex environments.

Most important awards and memberships:

• President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR)

• Fellow of IEEE

• American Publishers Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics

• IEEE Robotics and Automation (IEEE/RAS) Pioneering Award

• IEEE/RAS George Saridis Leadership Award

• Distinguished Service Award

• Japan Robot Association (JARA) Award

• Rudolf Kalman Award

• IEEE Technical Field Award

• Engelberger Award

• Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Dr. Aviv Regev

Head of Research and Early Development.Genentech &Member of the Corporate Executive Committee,Rock.

Research interests and focus areas

Computational and systems biology; Machine learning in biology; Single-cell and spatial genomics.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2023 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Award

• 2021 Ernst Schering Prize

• 2020 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences

• 2020 Keio Medical Science Prize

• 2020 National Academy of Medicine USA, Elected Member

• 2019 National Academy of Sciences, Elected Member

Prof. Dr. Daniela Rus

Andrew (1956) and Erna ViterbiProfessor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) atMassachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research interests and focus areas

Robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their applications for a better world.

Most important awards and memberships:

• National Academy of Sciences USA 2024

• Senior visiting fellow at MITRE Corporation

• MacArthur Fellow

• ACM, AAAI, AAAS, and IEEE Fellow

• Member of the National Academy of Engineering

• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Engelberger Award for Robotics

• IEEE RAS Technical Award

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber

Co-founder & Chief Scientist,NNAISENSEand director ofKAUST AI InitiativeScientific Director, Swiss AI Lab.IDSIA stands for "Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale," which translates to "Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Studies" in English., Lugano & Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science,Università della Svizzera italiana.

Research interests and focus areas

Deep learning and neural computer vision; reinforcement learning; neural networks.

• 2021 Chief Scientific Advisor of the non-profit AI Research Institute (AIRI)

• 2019 Steiger Award

• 2018 Named Top 100 Leader of Switzerland by Swiss economy magazine BILANZ

• 2017 Appointed to the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences

• 2017 FirstBest Paper Awardever issued by the journalNeural Networks 

• 2016 NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Research Award

• 2016 Swiss ICT Special Award for IDSIA

• 2016 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award

• 2013 Helmholtz Award of the International Neural Networks Society

• 2009 Appointed to the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea

Dr. Josef Sivic

Distinguished researcher, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics,Czech Technical University in Prague;Director of theELLIS Unit Prague.

Research interests and focus areas

Computer vision, machine learning, robotics.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Longuet-Higgins Prize and Helmholtz Prize for fundamental contributions to computer vision

• 2023 ERC Advanced Grant

• 2013 ERC Starting Grant

• Board member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

Prof. Dr. Manuela Veloso

Head ofJ.P. Morgan Chase AI Researchand Herbert A. Simon Emeritus Professor atCarnegie Mellon University.

Research interests and focus areas

Artificial intelligence, AI agents, symbiotic human-robot autonomy, planning, continuous learning, AI in finance.

Most important awards and memberships:

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award

• Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research

• Radcliffe Fellow

• Einstein Chair Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

• ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award

• Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE

• Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Prof. Dr. Max Welling

Chair of Machine Learning at theUniversity of Amsterdamand guest professor at theCaltech University.Co-founder and CAIO ofCuspAI.

Research interests and focus areas

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, probabilistic graphical models, Bayesian modeling, approximate inference, causal inference, reinforcement learning.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Member of the NeurIPS Advisory Board

• Fellow Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

• ELLIS Fellow

• 2024 ICLR Test of Time Award

• 2021 ICML Test of Time Award

• 2011-2015 Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TPAMI

• 2010 ECCV Koenderink Prize

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin

Professor of Robotics and System Intelligence & Executive Director ofMunich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence, Technical University of Munich(Chair of the AI Council from 2020 to 2024).

Research interests and focus areas

Robotics; embodied AI; Collective Intelligence; Machine Learning; Modeling the Human Body.

Most important awards and memberships:

• 2024 IEEE Fellow

• Member of the National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) since 2021.

• 2019 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG

• Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) since 2019.

• 2017 German President's Award for Innovation in Science and Technology

• Multiple Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and from IEEE conferences.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller

Chairman of the Executive Board and Head ofLeibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW),(Member of the AI Council from 2020 to 2022).

Research interests and focus areas

E-infrastructures with network and IT management, big data and artificial intelligence, grid and cloud computing, high-performance computing, quantum computing, virtual reality, visualization.

Most important awards and memberships:

• Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing
  Glasgow Coma Scale

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Gauß-Allianz (GA)

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Digital Technology &
  Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)

• Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Heidelberg Institute for
  Theoretical Studies (HITS)

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at the L3S Research Center.
  University of Hanover

• Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research and Innovation Centre.
  Advanced Training in Scientific Computing (CERFACS)

• Member of the Senate of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)

• Member of the Strategy Committee of the National High Performance Computing
  National Human Rights

• Member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the German Research Network (DFN)