ABOUT: I am a Senior Research Scientist in the Barcelona office of Sony AI . I also serve as the chairman of the joint German Institute for Standardisation (DIN) and German Commission for Electrotechnical, Electronic, and Information Technologies of DIN and VDE (DKE) Working Committee on Artificial Intelligence (NA 042-01-42 GA) and as an advisor to the AI risk management start-up CalvinRisk .
Previously I was the Head of Strategic AI at DEKRA DIGITAL ; CTO with acting managerial responsibility for technology/R&D, standardisation/certification and operations/HR at neurocat , a Berlin-based AI safety start-up; the Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Alpha Health , Telefonica Innovation Alpha's health tech Moonshot in Barcelona; a Lecturer (i.e., Assistant Professor) in Data Science at City, University of London (UK); a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Media Lab of the University of Bremen (German
From 2011 until 2015 I had been working in the AI Research Group of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück (Germany), of which I still continue to be an associate member.