Say hi to Nadja Klein, Prof, Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at @kit.edu 🇩🇪 & ELLIS Member. Her research areas are Bayesian Methods, ML, and Spatio-Temporal Learning.
She was awarded the COPSS Emerging Leader Award in 2025, which recognises early career statistical scientists 👏
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Meet @lisakoch.bsky.social, Asst. Prof at @unibe.ch🇨🇭 & ELLIS Member. Her research: ML for biomedical data & medical imaging, with a focus on trustworthy AI. Her goal: "certifiably safe & effective ML tools aligned with clinicians' & patients' needs."
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We are proud to see Chiara Plizzari, Assistant Professor at Università Bocconi and a member of our ELLIS Unit Milan, featured among the inspiring women in ELLIS!
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Say hi to Chiara Plizzari, Assistant Prof at Bocconi Uni 🇮🇹, ELLIS Member at @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social. Her research areas are Computer Vision & Egocentric Video Understanding.
As advice, she says, “don’t hesitate to ask for opportunities — many doors don’t open unless you knock!”
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Congratulations on your successful PhD defense today @srishtiy.bsky.social! 🎉🥂
You can learn more about Srishti's research on "Social Dimensions of AI Safety - Evaluating Values, Culture, Framing in Language & Vision Models" in this @ellis.eu spotlight: ellis.eu/news/spotlig... #WomenInELLIS
Meet Elizabeth Daly, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBMResearch 🇮🇪 & ELLIS Member
On responsible AI: "It can empower technologists to innovate at speed while doing the right thing: protecting people from harm."
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Meet Akshita Gupta, #ELLISPhD Student at @tuda.bsky.social 🇩🇪 with an exchange visit at Google Zurich 🇨🇭. Her research area is multimodal reasoning & generation with focus on developing methods for long-form videos.
By sharing her experiences, she hopes to help others feel encouraged 👏🏻
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Get to know @mariyahendriksen.bsky.social, Research Fellow at @ox.ac.uk 🇬🇧 & ELLIS Member. She works on multimodal machine learning, focusing on adaptable & trustworthy models.
Her advice for female scientists is to have a diverse support team of mentors who will advocate for you.
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Meet Hayley Hung, ELLIS Fellow & Associate Professor at TU Delft 🇳🇱. She researches Multimodal ML & Social Computing, and leads Metascience for ML at the ELLIS Unit Delft to improve how we do research. #WomenInELLIS
Meet Micol Spitale, Assistant Prof at Politecnico di Milano 🇮🇹. She’s an ELLIS Member in @ellisunitmilan.bsky.social working on Human-Robot Interaction.
Her advice for early-career scientists is to seek out mentors who understand the unique challenges and fears they may face.
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Meet @theeimer.bsky.social, Postdoc at @unihannover.bsky.social 🇩🇪, ELLIS Member working on AutoRL, hyperparameter optimization & Reinforcement Learning evaluation.
Her challenge at work: bridging #AutoML + RL and sharpening communication to make her work clear to both communities.
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Meet @annalukina.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at TU Delft 🇳🇱 and ELLIS Member, working on the intersection of artificial intelligence, formal methods, and control theory.
Her goal is to rethink neuro-symbolic AI verification using compositionality for sustainable certification.
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Meet @weissweiler.bsky.social, Postdoc at Uppsala Uni 🇸🇪 and ELLIS Member, working on #NLProc, computational linguistics & LM interpretability.
She’s accepted an Assistant Prof position at Leipzig Uni 🇩🇪—the first female CompSci professor there—and is eager to support more women 👏
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Meet Silvia Zuffi, Senior Research Scientist at IMATI–CNR 🇮🇹 and ELLIS Member working in #ComputerVision. She believes in the power of connecting scientists across Europe and aims to make a real impact with AI for animal welfare & conservation.
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Kicking off another year of #WomenInELLIS 👋
Meet @vdignum.bsky.social, Prof at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social / @aipolicylab.se.web.brid.gy 🇸🇪, ELLIS Fellow in ELLIS Program Human-Centric ML.
She works on responsible AI—ethics, accountability & governance—with a new book, "The AI Paradox," out soon.
Get to know Emine Yilmaz, Prof at @ucl.ac.uk 🏴. She’s an ELLIS Fellow part of the ELLIS Unit London and her area of research covers #NLProc & information retrieval.
Some of the methods she has developed have been adopted by the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).
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Meet @bunnech.bsky.social, Asst Prof at EPFL 🇨🇭. She’s an ELLIS Member, part of ELLIS Unit Lausanne (@epfl-ai-center.bsky.social), her research area is AI for Molecular Medicine.
A highlight: being lead author of a Cell paper on "How to build the AI virtual cell," among 42 co-authors.
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Say hi to Catarina Barata, Assistant Prof at @istecnico.bsky.social, researcher at @isrlisboa.bsky.social 🇵🇹, ELLIS Scholar in @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social.
Her work focuses on ML for computer vision + healthcare. A career highlight was winning a Google Academic Research Award.
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Meet Michaela Klauck, Software Systems Engineer at @rohdeandschwarz.bsky.social 🇩🇪 & ELLIS Member. She works on formal verification for autonomous systems, aiming to boost trust, reliability & interpretability in AI. See her advice for young women in science!
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Say hi to Celestine Mendler-Dünner, PI at @ellisinsttue.bsky.social, @mpi-is.bsky.social & @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social 🇩🇪. She’s an ELLIS Scholar researching social questions in ML.
Her goal is to foster a healthy & positive AI ecosystem through centering society in the study of AI.
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Get to know @zdeborova.bsky.social, Assoc Prof at EPFL🇨🇭. She’s an ELLIS Fellow, in ELLIS Unit Lausanne (@epfl-ai-center.bsky.social) & Program Quantum & Physics Based ML.
She works at the intersection of statistical physics, machine learning, and high-dimensional statistics.
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Say hi to Isabel Valera, Professor at @uni-saarland.de 🇩🇪 and ELLIS Fellow in ELLIS Unit Saarbrücken & Program Robust Machine Learning.
Her work focuses on developing trustworthy ML.
“We need to improve the visibility of women in ML to inspire new generations to join the adventure!”
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Meet Monika Henzinger, Prof at @istaresearch.bsky.social 🇦🇹, ELLIS Fellow in the ELLIS Unit Vienna.
Her research covers: differential privacy, especially in continual setting.
Her advice for young scientists? Write high-quality publications: quality is more important than quantity.
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Meet Theodora Kontogianni, Asst Prof at DTU 🇩🇰 and ELLIS Member.
Her research spans 3D perception, scene understanding & adaptive methods for autonomous agents.
“My goal is to build AI systems that continuously learn and adapt, & a curious team to explore these challenges together.”
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Say hello to @margretkeuper.bsky.social, Prof at Uni Mannheim 🇩🇪 and ELLIS Fellow at ELLIS Unit Saarbrücken. Her area of research is machine learning for computer vision.
Her advice: When your research goals are much harder than anticipated, take a step back to see the big picture.
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Meet @dimadamen.bsky.social, Prof of Computer Vision at the @bristoluni.bsky.social 🏴 & ELLIS Fellow working in Multimodal Learning Systems.
She aims to inspire more women to lead in #AI by highlighting more role models.
Discover her career milestones and goals for the field.
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Meet Agata Lapedriza, Professor / Principal Research Scientist / Research Affiliate at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 🇪🇸 / @northeasternu.bsky.social / @mit.edu 🇺🇸. She’s an ELLIS Member in the ELLIS Unit Barcelona.
Her work intersects at Computer Vision, ML, and Affective Computing.
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Meet @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Prof of Data Science at @uni-hamburg.de 🇩🇪. She’s an ELLIS Member working on #NLProc, Multimodal, Multilingual, Ethical & Safe AI.
Her goal is to make #AI more inclusive for both the research communities & the systems that can process & produce language.
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Meet Julia Vogt, Prof at @ethz.ch 🇨🇭. ELLIS Scholar & member of ELLIS Unit Zurich. Her research area is at the intersection of #MachineLearning and medicine. Her team made a free tool for clinicians to support the diagnosis and management of appendicitis in kids—a real-world solution. #WomenInELLIS
Meet Mihaela van der Schaar, John Humphrey Plummer Professor of #MachineLearning, #AI and Medicine, at the @cam.ac.uk 🏴. She’s an ELLIS Fellow in both @cambridgeellisunit.bsky.social & Program ELLIS Health.
See the achievements by her lab and her advice for young scientists!
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