ELLIS Research Programs
The ELLIS research programs focus on areas with the potential to move the needle in modern AI - from basic research in theory and algorithms to applications in health and climate sciences. They include outstanding researchers as ELLIS Fellows and Scholars. Currently, there are 16 different research programs in ELLIS.
ELLIS PhD & Postdoc Program
The ELLIS PhD and Postdoc program offers outstanding young researchers from all over the world a unique entry point to cutting-edge machine learning research by connecting them to leading scientists across Europe and by offering them a variety of training activities. Students can choose between an academic and an industry track.
ELLIS Sites
ELLIS is creating a network of research sites across Europe which are either located at existing AI research institutions or created from scratch. Currently, there are 41 ELLIS Units and 1 Associate Unit in 17 countries. The long-term goal is to establish a set of world-class ELLIS institutes distributed across Europe, each acting as the core of a local AI ecosystem.
Latest News

07 July 2025
Beyond the Thesis with Edoardo Caldarelli
Edoardo Caldarelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, working on data-driven control algorith...

30 June 2025
Beyond the Thesis with Mathis Petrovich
Mathis is a research scientist at NVIDIA, working in the field of 3D human motion synthesis - building on the focus of his PhD,...

26 June 2025
Exploring the Frontiers of Language and Speech: Highlights from the 2025 ELLIS NLP & Speech Recognition Workshop
This year's ELLIS Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition took place on June 4, 2025, in a fully online ...
Latest events

2025-07-19 - 2025-07-25
ELLIS Unit Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS)
The Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2025) is scheduled for July 19–25, 2025, at the Congress Center of Instituto S...

2025-07-23 - 2025-07-24
ELSA's Health Privacy Challenge: Advancing AI Privacy in Computational Biology at CAMDA 2025

2025-08-04 - 2025-08-08
CISPA ELLIS Summer School in Saarbrücken
Topic: Trustworthy AI (Secure and Safe Foundation Models)