Funding and transparency
(last updated August 2026)In an attempt towards transparency, we list below all our current and past funding sources.
Current funding
The salary of our group members comes either from the university or from the following, publically funded research projects:- Research cluster "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" (DFG, German Research Foundation)
- Tübingen AI Center (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, BMFTR)
- Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (Max Planck Society/University of Tuebingen)
- DFG individual project 560788681 "Theory of explainable machine learning" (DFG, German Research Foundation)
I am also involved in the following funding schemes (but do not directly receive funding from them):
- Collaborative research center ``Robust Vision'', German Reserach Foundation
- I am one of the coordinators of the CZS Center for AI and
law, which is funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation (2024-2033).
Some of my PhD students do internships in companies in order to explore options for their life after the PhD. During these internships, their contract with the university is suspended and they receive a personal salary from the company. Our group does not receive any money or other benefits from these internships.
Past funding
In the past, our group has received funding from the following publically funded research projects:- Collaborative Research Centre Robust Vision (German Research Foundation)
- 2017 - 2022 Max Planck Fellowship Group (Max Planck Society)
- 2015 - 2019 DFG Collaborative Research Centre Multi-Site Communication in the Brain
- 2012 - 2019 DFG Research Unit Structural Inference in Statistics: Adaptation and Efficiency
- 2012 - 2015 Heisenberg Professorship (DFG)
