Barbara Hammer#


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

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