Barbara Hammer#
| Membership Number: | 6738 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://hammer-lab.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0935-5591 |
| Twitter: | @HammerLabML |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-hammer-62963295/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Full Professor and Chair of the Machine Learning Group at the Centre of Cognitive Interaction Technologies (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Germany
- 2010 - 2017 Professur for Theoretical Computer Science at Bielefeld University, Germany
- 2009 Maternity leave after giving birth to my second son
- 2006 Maternity leave after giving birth to my first son
- 2005 Guest professor at University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, France
- 2004 - 2010 Associate Professor for Theoretical Computer Science at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
- 2000 - 2004 Independent research group leader of the research group 'Learning with Neural Methods on Structured Data' funded by MKW Lower Saxony at University of Osnabrueck, Germany
- 1995 - 2000 Research assistant at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial intelligence applications for social good
- Human-centered machine learning
- Learning for data streams
- Neural networks for structured data
- Neuro-symbolic systems
- Explainable artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Nonlinear dimensionality reduction and self-organization
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Elected as representative (Fachkollegium) for the topic Machine Learning of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (2024-2027)
- 2023 Appointed as member of the selection committee for research grants of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2023 Awarded Lamarr-Fellowship for Artificial Intelligence (2023-2027)
- 2021 Teaching Award 'Silver Chalk' of the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
- 2020 Awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant (2021-2027)
- 2019 Elected as Member of the Scientific Directorate Leibniz Centre Schloss Dagstuhl (2019 - 2024)
- 2018 Nominated as Chair of the Neural Networks Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (served 2019 - 2020)
- 2016 Elected as Member of the Board of the International Neural Networks Society (served 2017 - 2019)
- 2015 Nominated as Chair of the Distinguished Lecturers Program Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (served 2016-2017)
- 2015 Elected as Administrative Committee Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (served 2016 - 2019)
- 2015 Teaching Award 'Silver Chalk' of the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
- 2013 Elected as Chair of the Unit Expert Group Neural Networks of the German Computer Science Society (GI)
- 2012 Nominated as Chair of the Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (served 2013 - 2014)
- 1999 Award for the best PhD thesis, University of Osnabrück
