Women in ELLIS

Spotlighting women leading AI research in Europe through the ELLIS Network. Discover their impact and achievements.

Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Margret Keuper, Professor at the University of Mannheim, with a photo of Margret
October 22nd, 2025
Spotlight on Margret Keuper
Say hello to Margret Keuper, Professor at the University of Mannheim 🇩🇪 and ELLIS Fellow with the ELLIS Unit Saarbrücken.
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Dima Damen, Professor of Computer Vision at University of Bristol, with photo of Dima
October 15th, 2025
Spotlight on Dima Damen
Get to know Dima Damen, Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Bristol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Agata Lapedriza, Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Northeastern & MIT, with photo of Agata
October 8th, 2025
Spotlight on Agata Lapedriza
Meet Agata Lapedriza, Professor / Principal Research Scientist / Research Affiliate at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 🇪🇸 / Northeastern University / MIT 🇺🇸
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Anne Lauscher, Professor of Data Science, University of Hamburg, with photo of Anne
October 1st, 2025
Spotlight on Anne Lauscher
Get to know Anne Lauscher, Professor of Data Science at the University of Hamburg 🇩🇪
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Julia Vogt, Professor at ETH Zurich, with photo of Julia
September 24th, 2025
Spotlight on Julia Vogt
Say hello to Julia Vogt, Professor at ETH Zurich 🇨🇭
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Mihaela van der Schaar, Professor of Machine Learning, AI and Medicine at University of Cambridge, photo of Mihaela
September 17th, 2025
Spotlight on Mihaela van der Schaar
Get to know Mihaela van der Schaar, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI and Medicine, at the University of Cambridge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Mariya Toneva, Faculty at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, photo of Mariya
September 10th, 2025
Spotlight on Mariya Toneva
Say hello to Mariya Toneva, Faculty at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) 🇩🇪
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS, Veronica Nieves, Distinguished Researcher, University of Valencia, with photo of Veronica
September 3rd, 2025
Spotlight on Veronica Nieves
Meet Veronica Nieves, Distinguished Researcher at the University of Valencia 🇪🇸.
Spotlight on Women In ELLIS: Maria A Zuluaga
August 27th, 2025
Spotlight on Maria A. Zuluaga
Get to know Maria A. Zuluaga, Associate Professor at EURECOM 🇫🇷 and ELLIS Member who researches AI for health.
Spotlight on Women In ELLIS, Ute Schmid, Professor of Cognitive Systems, University of Bamberg, Germany, and Ute's photo
August 20th, 2025
Spotlight on Ute Schmid
Say hello to Ute Schmid, Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Bamberg 🇩🇪 and ELLIS Member.
Spotlight on Women in ELLIS on Oya Celiktutan, Reader in AI & Robotics, King's College London, and photo of Oya
August 13th, 2025
Spotlight on Oya Celiktutan
Get to know Oya Celiktutan, Reader in AI & Robotics at King's College London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. She’s an ELLIS Member whose research areas focus on multimodal machine learning...
Spotlight on Women in ELLIS, Indre Zliobaite, Professor at University of Helsinki
August 6th, 2025
Spotlight on Indrė Žliobaitė
Get to know Indrė Žliobaitė, Professor at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮, ELLIS Member at the ELLIS Unit Helsinki. Her research areas include robust machine learning,...
Spotlight on Women in ELLIS, Isabella Augenstein, Professor at the University of Copenhagen
July 30th, 2025
Spotlight on Isabelle Augenstein
Meet Isabelle Augenstein, Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen - DIKU 🇩🇰. She's an ELLIS Scholar and member of the ELLIS Unit...
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Julia Schnabel, Professor for Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine at Helmholtz Munich and TU Munich, with photo of Julia
July 23rd, 2025
Spotlight on Julia Schnabel
Meet Julia Schnabel, Professor for Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine at Helmholtz Munich / TU Munich 🇩🇪
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Angelica Aviles-Rivero, Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University and University of Cambridge, with photo of Angelica
July 16th, 2025
Spotlight on Angelica Aviles-Rivero
Get to know Angelica Aviles-Rivero, Assistant Professor at Tsinghua 🇨🇳University and University of Cambridge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Carme Torras, Professor of Research at the Institute de Robotica i Informatica Industrial at CSIC-UPC, with photo of Carme
July 9th, 2025
Spotlight on Carme Torras
Say hello to Carme Torras, Professor of Research at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC in Barcelona 🇪🇸
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Yiota Poirazi, Research Director at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) with photo of Yiota
July 2nd, 2025
Spotlight on Yiota Poirazi
Meet Yiota Poirazi, Research Director at Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete 🇬🇷
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Linara Adilova, Postdoc Researcher at Technical University Dortmund, with photo of Linara
June 25th, 2025
Spotlight on Linara Adilova
Get to know Linara Adilova, Postdoc Researcher at TU Dortmund University 🇩🇪 in the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security.
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Oishi Deb, PhD Scholar at the University of Oxford and Google DeepMind, with photo of Oishi
June 18th, 2025
Spotlight on Oishi Deb
Get to know Oishi Deb, ELLIS PhD Student 🎓 at University of Oxford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 on the Industry Track working at Google DeepMind during her exchange.
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Justine Cassell, Senior Researcher at Inria Paris with affiliation to Carnegie Mellon University, with photo of Justine
June 11th, 2025
Spotlight on Justine Cassell
Say hi to Justine Cassell, Senior Researcher at Inria 🇨🇵 with affiliation to Carnegie Mellon University 🇺🇸
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Barbara Hammer, Professor at Bielefeld University, with photo of Barbara
June 4th, 2025
Spotlight on Barbara Hammer
Get to know Barbara Hammer, Professor of Machine Learning at Bielefeld University 🇩🇪 and ELLIS Member
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Ana Lucic, Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam, with photo of Ana
May 28th, 2025
Spotlight on Ana Lucic
Meet Ana Lucic, Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱 with a joint position between the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the...
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Federica Arrigoni, Professor at Politecnico di Milano, with photo of Federica
May 21st, 2025
Spotlight on Federica Arrigoni
Say hi to Federica Arrigoni, Professor at Politecnico di Milano 🇮🇹, ELLIS Member and member of the ELLIS Unit Milan.
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Angela Dai, Associate Professor at Technical University of Munich, with photo of Angela
May 14th, 2025
Spotlight on Angela Dai
Meet Angela Dai, Associate Professor at TUM 🇩🇪, ELLIS Scholar and Member of the ELLIS Unit Munich and ELLIS Program Learning for Graphics & Vision
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Maria Fernanda Durand, PhD Student at Polytechnic University of Madrid, with photo of Maria
May 7th, 2025
Spotlight on Maria Fernanda Durand
Get to know Maria Fernanda Durand, ELLIS PhD Student at Polytechnic University of Madrid 🇪🇸
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Laura Ruotsalainen, Professor at the University of Helsinki and ELLIS Institute Finland
April 30th, 2025
Spotlight on Laura Ruotsalainen
Get to know Laura Ruotsalainen, Professor at University of Helsinki and the newly established ELLIS Institute Finland 🇫🇮
Spotight on #WomenInELLIS on Tiffany Vlaar, Lecture or Assistant Professor at the University of Glasgow, with photo of Tiffany
April 23rd, 2025
Spotlight on Tiffany Vlaar
Say hello to Tiffany Vlaar, Lecturer at University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and ELLIS Member. Her area of research is mathematics of deep learning and climate change AI.
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Lena Maier-Hein, Professor at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), with photo of Lena
April 16th, 2025
Spotlight on Lena Maier-Hein
Get to know Lena Maier-Hein, Professor at the German Cancer Research Institute and Director of the NCT 🇩🇪
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Isabel Trancoso, Professor at INESC-ID, IST and University of Lisboa, with photo of Isabel
April 9th, 2025
Spotlight on Isabel Trancoso
Get to know Isabel Trancoso, Professor in Lisbon at INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and the University of Lisbon 🇵🇹
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Valentina Boeva, Tenture Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, with photo of Valentina
April 2nd, 2025
Spotlight on Valentina Boeva
Meet Valetina Boeva, Tenture Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich at the Department of Computer Science 🇨🇭
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Iryna Gurevych, Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, MBZUA and INSAIT, with photo of Iryna
March 26th, 2025
Spotlight on Iryna Gurevych
Say hello to Iryna Gurevych, Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt 🇩🇪 , MBZUAI 🇦🇪 and INSAIT - Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and...
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Ivona Najdenkoska, Postdoc Researcher at University of Amsterdam, with photo of Ivona
March 19th, 2025
Spotlight on Ivona Najdenkoska
Meet Ivona Najdenkoska, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Gul Varol, Associate Professor at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, with photo of Gul
March 12th, 2025
Spotlight on Gül Varol
Get to know Gül Varol, Senior Researcher at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech 🇫🇷
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Natasa Przulj, Professor at MBZUA, ICREA and University College London, with photo of Natasa
March 5th, 2025
Spotlight on Natasa Przulj
Say hello to Natasa Przulj, Professor at MBZUAI 🇦🇪 and affiliated with ICREA 🇪🇸 and UCL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Cecilia Clementi, Professor of Physics at Freie Universitaet Berlin, with photo of Cecilia
February 26th, 2025
Spotlight on Cecilia Clementi
Get to know Cecilia Clementi, Professor of Physics at Freie Universität Berlin 🇩🇪
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Francisca Gaspar Vieira
February 19th, 2025
Spotlight on Francisca Gaspar Vieira
Get to know Francisca Gaspar Vieira, an ELLIS PhD student at the University of Heidelberg DEU with co-advising at EMBL 🇩🇪
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Raffaella Bernardi, Associate Professor at University of Trento, with photo of Raffaella
February 12th, 2025
Spotlight on Raffaella Bernardi
Meet Raffaella Bernardi, Associate Professor at University of Trento 🇮🇹 and member of the ELLIS Unit Trento
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Sereina Riniker, Professor at ETH Zurich, with photo of Sereina
February 5th, 2025
Spotlight on Sereina Riniker
Our spotlight shines on Sereina Riniker, a Professor at ETH Zürich 🇨🇭 and ELLIS Fellow
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Ioana Manolescu, Senior Researcher at Inria & Ecole polytechnique, with photo of Ioana
January 29th, 2025
Spotlight on Ioana Manolescu
Say hello to Ioana Manolescu, a Senior Researcher at Inria and part-time professor at Ecole Polytechnique 🇫🇷
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Natalia Dias Rodriguez, Associate Professor at University of Granada, with photo of Natalia
January 22nd, 2025
Spotlight on Natalia Díaz Rodríguez
Get to know Natalia Díaz Rodríguez, Associate Professor at University of Granada 🇪🇸
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Srishti Yadav, PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen, with photo of Srishti
January 15th, 2025
Spotlight on Srishti Yadav
Meet Srishti Yadav, an ELLIS PhD Student studying at University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and University of Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Milica Gasic, Professor at Heinrich Heine University, with photo of Milica
January 8th, 2025
Spotlight on Milica Gašić
Our first spotlight shines on Milica Gašić, a Professor at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf 🇩🇪, focusing on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
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