Vita
Appointments
| TU Dresden | |
| Full Professor | Since 01/2020 |
| University of Tübingen | |
| Honorary Professor | 10/2017 - 08/2019 |
| Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence | |
| Department Head AI Research | 07/2019 - 12/2019 |
| Research Group Leader | 09/2017 - 06/2019 |
| Max Planck Institute for Informatics | |
| Senior Researcher | 04/2017 - 05/2019 |
| Junior Group Leader (in Bernt Schiele's department) | 09/2013 - 03/2017 |
| Harvard University | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow (with Hanspeter Pfister) | 01/2012 - 07/2013 |
| Heidelberg University | |
| Research Associate (in the group of Fred A. Hamprecht) | 06/2007 - 12/2011 |
Education
| Heidelberg University | |
| Ph.D. in Physics (supervised by Fred A. Hamprecht) | 07/2011 |
| Diploma in Physics | 04/2007 |
| University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand | 02/2005 - 06/2005 |
| Technical University Dortmund | |
| Pre-Diploma in Physics | 09/2003 |
| Pre-Diploma in Computer Science | 04/2003 |
| Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Hagen | |
| Abitur | 06/1999 |
Scholarships & Awards
| Reviewer awards and recognitions | |
| ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer Recognition | 2026 |
| CVPR 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award | 2022 |
| NIPS 2017 Best Reviewer Award | 2017 |
| Paper awards | |
| MICCAI Society Medical Image Analysis Best Paper Award | 2015 |
| German Pattern Recognition Society DAGM Award (Best Paper Runner-Up) | 2008 |
| Scholarships | |
| Heidelberg University International Exchange | 02/2005 - 06/2005 |
| Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes | 11/2000 - 04/2007 |
Supervision Experience
| Postdoctoral researchers | |
| Silvia Di Gregorio (→ Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) | 03/2021 - 08/2023 |
| Doctoral students | |
| Lucas Fabian Naumann | Since 06/2025 |
| Jannik Presberger | Since 08/2023 |
| Jannik Irmai | Since 04/2021 |
| David Stein | Since 01/2021 |
| Shengxian Zhao | Since 01/2021 |
| Jan-Hendrik Lange (→ University of Tübingen → Amazon) | 06/2016 - 05/2020 |
| Evgeny Levinkov (→ Bosch Center for AI → Synthesia) | 11/2014 - 09/2018 |