Home  | News

08.09.2025

Tiny logo
Teaser image to Niki Kilbertus Receives Prestigious ERC Starting Grant

Niki Kilbertus Receives Prestigious ERC Starting Grant

Award Supports Project “DYNAMICAUS” on Causal Modeling in Complex Systems

MCML PI Niki Kilbertus has been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant by the European Research Council.

The grant supports his project DYNAMICAUS, which combines machine learning, causal inference, and mechanistic modeling to study interventions in complex systems. By advancing methods that capture cause–effect relationships, the project opens new opportunities for understanding scientific processes and decision-making in real-world contexts.

ERC Starting Grants are among the most competitive European funding instruments, supporting excellent early-career researchers in building independent teams and groundbreaking projects.

Congratulations to Niki!

#award #research #kilbertus

Related

Link to Björn Ommer: How AI can transform society if we use it responsibly

28.04.2026

Björn Ommer: How AI Can Transform Society if We Use It Responsibly

MCML PI Björn Ommer explains the philosophy behind Stable Diffusion and why his team focuses on efficiency.

Read more
Link to When Vision AI Hallucinates Details

23.04.2026

When Vision AI Hallucinates Details

Why do vision-language models invent details? Our PI Zeynep Akata and her team present a fix for AI hallucinations at CVPR 2026.

Read more
Link to MCML at ICLR 2026

22.04.2026

MCML at ICLR 2026

MCML researchers are represented with 36 papers at ICLR 2026 (33 Main, and 3 Workshops).

Read more
Link to Research Highlights from Germany’s AI Competence Centers

20.04.2026

Research Highlights from Germany’s AI Competence Centers

Several research projects associated with MCML are highlighted in the “Successes of German AI Research” overview.

Read more
Link to Welcoming Achim Lilienthal to MCML

16.04.2026

Welcoming Achim Lilienthal to MCML

Achim J. Lilienthal joins MCML as PI, focusing on perception systems, robotics, and AI in dynamic environments.

Read more
Back to Top