People

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Martin Potthast
martin.potthast@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P816
+49 341 97-32382

Interests: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Reproducibility
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

Secretary

Petra Gamrath
Petra Gamrath
pgamrath@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P825
+49 341 97-32230

Assistants

Christopher Akiki
Christopher Akiki
christopher.akiki@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814
+49 341 97-32349

[publications]

Sebastian Bischoff
Sebastian Bischoff
sebastian.bischoff@uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Machine Learning, Authorship
[publications]

Kim Buergl
Kim Bürgl
buergl@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P818
+49 341 97-32282
Dr. Giuseppe Celano
Dr. Giuseppe G. A. Celano
celano@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P906
+49 341 97-32223
Niklas Deckers
Niklas Deckers
niklas.deckers@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P819
+49 341 97-32214

Interests: Deep Learning for NLP and Computer Vision, Embeddings and Representations
[publications]

Theresa Elstner
Theresa Elstner
theresa.elstner@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814
+49 341 97-32349

[publications]

Lukas Gienapp
Lukas Gienapp
lukas.gienapp@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P819
+49 341 97-32233

[events] [publications]

Dr. Christian Kahmann
Dr. Christian Kahmann
christian.kahmann@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P818
+49 341 97-32282

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Computational Social Science, Context Change

Wolfgang Kircheis
Wolfgang Kircheis
wolfgang.kircheis@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
+49 341 97-32223

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics

Dr. Harrisen Scells
Dr. Harrisen Scells
harry.scells@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814

Interests: Information Retrieval
[website] [publications]

Sebastian Schmidt
Sebastian Schmidt
s.schmidt@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P814

Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Disinformation
[publications]

Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
christopher.schroeder@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P818

Interests: Active Learning, Text Classification, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
[publications]

Shahbaz Syed
Shahbaz Syed
shahbaz.syed@uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
+49 341 97-32223

Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
[data] [events] [publications] [research]

External PhDs

Matti Wiegmann
Matti Wiegmann
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
matti.wiegmann@uni-weimar.de

Interests: Social Media Analysis, Authorship, Natural Language Processing
[events] [publications] [research]

Former Assistants

Khalid Al-Khatib
Assistant Prof. Dr. Khalid Al-Khatib [2020-2021]
University of Groningen
khalid.alkhatib@rug.nl

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Computational Social Science
[chair] [data] [events] [publications] [research]

Dr. Thomas Efer
Dr. Thomas Efer [2021-2022]
Leipzig University
efer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Digital Humanities
 

Dr. Stefan Heindorf
Dr. Stefan Heindorf [2014-2019]
Paderborn University
heindorf@uni-paderborn.de

Interests: Knowledge Bases, Crowdsourcing, Vandalism Detection
[events] [publications]

Dr. Ing. Andreas Niekler
Dr. Ing. Andreas Niekler [2018-2021]
Leipzig University
andreas.niekler@uni-leipzig.de

Interests: Scientific Transfer, Computational Social Science, Text Classification, Digital Humanities, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
[publications]

Alonso Palomino
Alonso Palomino [2020-2022]
 

Interests: Bias Analytics, Natural Language Processing
[publications]

Visiting Researchers

Alexander Bondarenko
Alexander Bondarenko [2020-today]
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
alexander.bondarenko@uni-jena.de
Omar Espejel
Omar Espejel [April 2022]
Hugging Face
Maik Fröbe
Maik Fröbe [2019-today]
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
maik.froebe@uni-jena.de
Christian Hauptmann
Christian Hauptmann [2023-today]
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
christian.hauptmann@uni-wuerzburg.de
Maximilian Kähler
Maximilian Kähler [September 2022]
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Dr. Lydia Mueller
Dr. Lydia Müller [2019-today]
Leipzig University
lydia@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Ferdinand Schlatt
Ferdinand Schlatt [2020-today]
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
ferdinand.schlatt@uni-jena.de
Shuai Wang
Shuai Wang [March 2023-May 2023]
The University of Queensland
shuai.wang2@uq.edu.au
Ayush Thakur
Ayush Thakur [January 2023]
Weights & Biases

Student Assistants

Ole Borchardt
Ole Borchardt
ob14dupe@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
Yannick Dannies
Yannick Dannies
yd51lyco@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
Lea Gleissner
Lea Gleißner
lg39qaqy@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
Ahmad Dawar Hakimi
Ahmad Dawar Hakimi
hakimi@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P818

[publications]

Amina Ismael
Amina Ismael
ai53kyxo@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
Max Kölbl
Max Kölbl
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
Max Martius
Max Martius
mm34gycy@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905

[publications]

Dominik Schwabe
Dominik Schwabe
ds40bamo@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905
Victor Zimmermann
Victor Zimmermann
Augustusplatz 10, Room P905