Individual Projects


Our  Individual Projects are collaborations between two research groups, covering different areas or disciplines. The aim is to promote in-depth exchange between different scientific disciplines.


Ongoing Projects

Counterfactual Explanations of Decisions of Deep Neural Networks with Applications in Medical Diagnostics

  •  Principal Investigators:
Matthias Hein | Philipp Berens
  •  Team members:
Valentyn Boreiko (PhD student)
Hanna Faber (resident physician)

Project duration: December 2020 - February 2025

Causal Inference for Robust, Reliable, and Responsible NLP

  •  Principal investigator:
Bernhard Schölkopf
  •  Team member:
Zhijing Jin  (PhD student)

 Project duration: April 2024 - Februar 2025

Generative models of multi-modal neurophysiological measurements

  •  Principal investigator:
Jakob Macke
  •  Team members:
Linda Ulmer  (PhD Student)

Project duration: June 2024 - May 2025

Clinical translation of machine learning methods for accelerated cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

  •  Principal investigator:
Thomas Küstner
  •  Team member:
Siying Xu  (PhD student)

 Project duration: June 2024 - May 2025

Understanding Diffusion Models

  •  Principal investigator:
Ulrike von Luxburg
  •  Team member:
Solveig Klepper  (Doktorandin)

Project duration: August 2024 - July 2025

Multimodal LLM Grounding for Scientific Discovery

  •  Principal Investigators:
Carsten Eickhoff
  •  Team member:
Siran Li (PhD student)

 Project duration: September 2024 - August 2025

Inductive bias of learning algorithms in climate science

  •  Principal Investigators:
Ulrike von Luxburg | Bedartha Goswami
  •  Team member:
Moritz Haas (PhD student)

 Project duration: May 2021 - August 2025

Inference for hybrid mechanistic models in neuroscience

  •  Principal investigators:
Philipp Berens
  •  Team members:
Kyra Kadheem  (PhD student)

 Project duration: September 2022 - September 2025

Interacting quantum walks on Rydberg quantum simulators

  •  Principal investigator:
Igor Lesanovsky
  •  Team member:
Sofia Catalina Rodriguez Vidal (PhD student)

Project duration: October 2024 - September 2025

Machine learning for the inverse problem in X-ray scattering for soft-matter systems

  •  Principal investigators:
Frank Schreiber
  •  Team members:
Ekaterina Kneschaurek (PhD Student)

 Project duration: April 2024 - December 2025

Learning Disentangled Hybrid Visual Representations

  •  Principal investigators:
Andreas Geiger
  •  Team members:
Gege Gao  (PhD Student)

 Project duration: May 2024 - December 2025


Completed Projects

Analytic classical density fuctionals from an equation learning network

  •  Principal Investigators:
Georg Martius | Martin Oettel
  •  Team member:
Alessandro Simon (PhD student)

 Project duration: October 2020 - September 2024

Predicting anti-plasmodial antibody profiles specific for human malaria

  •  Principal investigator:
Nico Pfeifer
  •  Team member:
Jaqueline Wistuba-Hamprecht (PhD student)

 Project duration: August 2023 - August 2024

Machine Learning Approaches for Psychophysics with Ordinal Comparisons

  •  Principal Investigators:
Felix Wichmann | Ulrike von Luxburg
  •  Team members:
David Künstle  (PhD student)

Project duration: March 2020 - April 2024

Applied Causal Inference in Social Sciences and Medicine

  •  Principal Investigators:
Dominik Papies | Philipp Berens
  •  Team member:
Jonathan Fuhr (PhD student)

 Project duration: May 2020 - April 2024

Extracting Expertise from Tweets

  •  Principal Investigators:
Isabel Valera | Sonja Utz
  •  Team member:
Pablo Sánchez Martín (PhD student)

 Project duration: September 2019 - April 2024

Extending Deep Kernel Approaches for Better Prediction and Understanding of ADME Phenotypes and Related Drug Response

  •  Principal Investigators:
Nico Pfeifer | Matthias Schwab
  •  Team member:
Jonas Ditz (PhD student)

 Project duration: March 2020 - February 2024

Enhancing Machine Learning of Lexical Semantics with Image Mining

  •  Principal Investigators:
Harald Baayen
  •  Team members:

Zohreh Ghaderi  (PhD student)

Hassan Shahmohammadi (PhD student)

 Project duration: January 2020 - December 2023

Understanding Quantum Effects in Neural Network Models through ML

  •  Principal Investigators:
Sabine Andergassen | Igor Lesanovsky
  •  Mentor:
Georg Martius
  •  Team member:

Paolo Mazza (Postdoc)

Francesco Carnazza (PhD student)

 Project duration: April 2020 - December 2023

Interpretable Spatial Machine Learning for Environmental Modelling

  •  Principal Investigators:
Philipp Hennig | Thomas Scholten
  •  Team members:

Thomas Gläßle  (PhD student) 
Kerstin Rau  (PhD student)

Thorsten Behrens (Postdoc)

 Project duration: April 2019 - December 2023

Ethics and Philosophy Lab

  •  Principal investigators:

Wolfgang Spohn | Regina Ammicht-Quinn

  •  Team members:
Thilo Hagendorff (Postdoc)
Thomas Grote (Postdoc)
Eric Raidl (Postdoc)

 Project duration: January 2020 - December 2023

Enhanced machine learning methods to predict, explore and understand post-translational protein modifications in microbial organisms

  •  Principal investigators:
Kay Nieselt
  •  Team members:
Caroline Jachmann (PhD Student)

 Project duration: Apr 2022 - September 2023

Short-to-Mid Scale Weather Forecasting with a Distributed, Recurrent CNN

  •  Principal Investigators:
Martin Butz | Hendrik Lensch | Thomas Scholten
  •  Team member:
Matthias Karlbauer  (PhD student)

 Project duration: March 2019 - September 2023

Enhancing word learning in the Discriminative Lexicon with deep learning

  •  Principal investigator:
Harald Baayen
  •  Team member:
Maria Heitmeier (PhD student)

 Project duration: September 2022 - August 2023

Human-Robot Interface with Eye-Tracking

  •  Principal Investigators:
Enkelejda Kasneci | Andreas Zell
  •  Team member:
Daniel Weber (PhD student)

 Project duration: May 2019 - April 2023

Model-based reinforcement learning with uncertainty-aware planning

  •  Principal investigator:
Georg Martius
  •  Team member:
Cristina Pinneri (PhD student)

 Project duration: January 2022 - March 2023

Deep Stereo Vision

  •  Principal investigator:
Andreas Zell
  •  Team member:
Rafia Rahim (PhD student)

 Project duration: April 2022 - January 2023

Modelling Behavioral Responses to Emotional Cues in Sports – A Bayesian Approach

  •  Principal Investigators:
Augustin Kelava | Tim Pawlowski
  •  Team members:
Lukas Fischer (PhD student)
Michael Nagel (PhD student)

 Project duration: Jan 2021 - December 2022

Visualizing Uncertainty from Data, Model and Algorithm in Large-Scale Omics Data

  •  Principal Investigators:
Kay Nieselt | Philipp Hennig
  •  Team member:
Susanne Zabel  (PhD student)

 Project duration: January 2019 - December 2022