Prof. Dr. Jakob Macke

Jakob has been Professor for “Machine Learning in Science” since May 2020. The W3 professorship has been set up as part of the Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspectives for the Sciences”. He is also an Adjunct Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Director of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, and an ELLIS Fellow and member of the ELLIS Unit Tübingen. He serves as a speaker of the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 1233 Robust Vision, the Excellence Cluster Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science and the EKFS-training group ClinBrAIn: AI for Clinical Brain Research.

Jakob studied mathematics at Oxford University, worked as a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, as a postdoc at the Gatsby Unit at University College London, and as a Bernstein Fellow in Tübingen. He was a Max Planck Group Leader at the Caesar Research Centre in Bonn, a Professor at the Centre for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt, and from 2018 to 2020, Professor of Computational Neuroengineering at TU Munich. He was a member of the Young Academy at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2013-2018), and a FENS Kavli Scholar of Excellence (2018-2023).