Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Kalweit

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Kalweit holds the Tenure-Track CRIION Professorship for Bioinformatics: AI for Oncology Research at the Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg in 2022 under Prof. Joschka Boedecker. She also serves as Chief Scientific Officer at the Collaborative Research Institute Intelligent Oncology (CRIION) of the Mertelsmann Foundation gGmbH. Her research centers on robust, efficient, and explainable machine learning for oncology, with a focus on limited-data settings, biological variability, and technical heterogeneity. Her work has resulted in multiple patents and a digital biomarker. Her paper “Early Seizure Detection with an Energy-Efficient Convolutional Neural Network on an Implantable Microcontroller” received the Best Paper Award at IJCNN 2018. She has further been recognized with the Wolfgang-Gentner-Nachwuchsförderpreis (2023) and the Gips-Schüle-Nachwuchspreis in Technikwissenschaften (2024).