PhD Application - Supervisors Matchmaking 2026
A1 | Statistical Foundations & Explainability
Stefan Bauer
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Bernd Bischl
Prof. Dr.
Director
Mathias Drton
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Stefan Feuerriegel
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Gjergji Kasneci
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Göran Kauermann
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
David Rügamer
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Fabian Scheipl
PD Dr.
Principal Investigator
Volker Schmid
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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A2 | Mathematical Foundations
Ulrich Bauer
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Reinhard Heckel
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Gitta Kutyniok
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Johannes Maly
Prof. Dr.
Associate
Holger Rauhut
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Suvrit Sra
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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A3 | Computational Models
Stephan Günnemann
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Eyke Hüllermeier
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Stefanie Jegelka
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Niki Kilbertus
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Matthias Schubert
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Thomas Seidl
Prof. Dr.
Director
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B1 | Computer Vision
Zeynep Akata
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Benjamin Busam
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Daniel Cremers
Prof. Dr.
Director
Almut Sophia Koepke
Dr.
JRG Leader Multi-Modal Learning
Björn Ommer
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Nils Thuerey
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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B2 | Natural Language Processing
Alexander Fraser
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Michael Hedderich
Dr.
JRG Leader Human-Centered NLP
Barbara Plank
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Hinrich Schütze
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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B3 | Multimodal Perception
Enkelejda Kasneci
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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C1 | Medicine
Björn Eskofier
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Michael Ingrisch
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Nassir Navab
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Daniel Rückert
Prof. Dr.
Director
Julia Schnabel
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Christian Wachinger
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Benedikt Wiestler
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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C2 | Biology
Julien Gagneur
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Fabian Theis
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
Ralf Zimmer
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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C3 | Physics and Geo Sciences
Xiaoxiang Zhu
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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C4 | Computational Social Sciences
Frauke Kreuter
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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C5 | Humane AI
Benjamin Lange
Dr.
JRG Leader Ethics of AI
Sven Nyholm
Prof. Dr.
Principal Investigator
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