Iryna Gurevych becomes a Fellow of the new Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence
The Max Planck Society has launched a new graduate school at the intersection of life sciences and artificial intelligence – the Max Planck School of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. Among the inaugural Fellows is Professor Iryna Gurevych from TU Darmstadt, co-founder of hessian.AI and one of Germany’s most accomplished AI researchers.
Iryna Gurevych is internationally recognized as an expert in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. She holds Hesse’s first LOEWE Distinguished Professorship, is a founding member of hessian.AI, directs the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab at TU Darmstadt, and in 2024 became the first German university professor to receive the prestigious Milner Award from the Royal Society. Her research on language-based AI and machine learning has been central to advancing trustworthy and “reasonable” artificial intelligence over the past years.
Hesse’s Minister of Science Timon Gremmels is delighted about Iryna Gurevych´s success and TU Darmstadt’s involvement:
“Professor Iryna Gurevych is an internationally recognised expert in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. Since 2021, she has held the first LOEWE professorship awarded by the Ministry of Science. Her expertise will enrich the new Max Planck School. As the state government, we are actively supporting the future-oriented field of AI – both by promoting excellent research and by collaborating with business and industry. TU Darmstadt plays an outstanding role here.”
TU President Professor Tanja Brühl congratulates Professor Gurevych on this incredible achievement and added:
“We are contributing our research strength as TU Darmstadt to a network of proven partners in order to develop forward-looking answers at the interface between life sciences and artificial intelligence through interdisciplinary collaboration. Our participation in the Max Planck School also represents a conviction we live by: new ideas and groundbreaking innovations arise in strong teams. Changes for tomorrow and solutions for major transformation tasks are possible where partners with complementary strengths come together. (…)”
The new Max Planck School brings together expertise from eleven federal states to foster cutting-edge research and train outstanding PhD candidates in the emerging field of biomedical AI. Its goal is to develop advanced AI methods for basic research in the life sciences while paving the way for future translational applications. With Professor Gurevych’s participation, TU Darmstadt – and with it the Hessian AI research ecosystem – gains even greater international visibility.
In addition to Iryna Gurevych, hessian.AI Co-Director Professor Kristian Kersting and Professor Carsten Binnig are also associated members of the new Max Planck School on Artificial Intelligence and Health.
By participating in this initiative, hessian.AI once again highlights Hesse’s research strength in the field of AI—and the crucial role its scientists play in building interdisciplinary networks of excellence.
Photo: Rüdiger Dunker / TU Darmstadt
