Our Team
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel and Dr. Joachim Köhler, the University of Bonn, RWTH Aachen University, Forschungszentrum Jülich, the Fraunhofer IAIS, TU Dortmund University and the Paderborn University are working together to implement the goals of the AI Service Center WestAI.
Here you will find an overview of the managers of the subject areas — service, hardware and research — and the heads of the work packages and working groups.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel
University of Bonn
Spokesperson
Dr. Joachim Köhler
Fraunhofer IAIS
Executive Director
Dr. Xenia Grote
University of Bonn
Project Manager
Daria Tomala
University of Bonn
Press relations / editorial office
Maximilian Waidhas
University of Bonn
Communication design / editorial office
Service
Dr. Joachim Köhler
Fraunhofer IAIS
Area Manager Service
Laszlo Friedmann
Fraunhofer IAIS
Deputy Area Manager Service
and Co-Lead “Domain Specific Application and Service Coupling” (Research)
Dominik Wolfschläger
RWTH Aachen University
Quality Manager and Lead “Stakeholder-Management & Communication“
Prof. Dr. Petra Mutzel
University of Bonn
Lead “Courses, Training and Education”
Dr. Jens Fisseler
Fraunhofer IAIS
Lead “AI Resource Hub and Experiment Space”
Martin Welß
Fraunhofer IAIS
Lead “AI Resource Hub and Experiment Space”
Dr. Stefan Kesselheim
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Lead “Development Service & AI Consulting”
Fritz Niesel
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Lead “Development Service & AI Consulting”
Dr. Jannis Klinkenberg
RWTH Aachen University
Lead “Scalable and Simple Access to Computing Resources”
Prof. Dr. Jochen Garcke
Fraunhofer SCAI
Prof. Dr. Kristel Michielsen
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Klein
University of Bonn
Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Müller
TU Dortmund Univesity
Prof. Dr. Robert Schmitt
RWTH Aachen University
Dr. Christoph Lange-Bever
Fraunhofer FIT
Hardware
Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller
RWTH Aachen University
Area Manager Hardware
Dr. Christian Terboven
RWTH Aachen University
Deputy Area Manager Hardware
John Arnold
RWTH Aachen University
Lead “Hardware Procurement and Operation”
Research
Prof. Dr. Sven Behnke
University of Bonn
Area Manager Research and Lead “Efficient Transfer and Compression Methodologies for Large Models”
Dr. Jenia Jitsev
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Area Manager Research and Lead “Pre-training and Scaling Laws for Large Transferable Models”
Sogol Haghighat
Fraunhofer IAIS
Lead “Domain Specific Application and Service Coupling”
Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker
RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Häb-Umbach
Universität Paderborn
Partner Lead
Prof. Dr. Thomas Liebig
TU Dortmund University
Partner Lead
Prof. Dr. Christian Bauckhage
Fraunhofer IAIS
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall
University of Bonn
PD Dr. Martin Schultz
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. Emre Neftci
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. John Paul Strachan
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. Bastian Leibe
RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Jian-Jia Chen
TU Dortmund University
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