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Celestine Mendler-Dünner

Hector Endowed Fellow of the ELLIS Institute

Celestine Mendler-Dünner is a PI at the ELLIS Institute in Tübingen and a group leader at the MPI for Intelligent Systems. She is a faculty member of the Tübingen AI Center and a member of the Tübingen Cluster of Excellence `Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science'. Her research focuses on machine learning in social context and the role of prediction in digital economies. Celestine obtained her PhD from ETH Zurich in collaboration with IBM Research and spent two years as an SNSF postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, and two years as a group leader in the Social Foundations of Computation department at MPI-IS prior to joining the ELLIS Institute. She is a fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann Kolleg of the Max Planck Society, an ELLIS scholar, and a member of the board of directors for EAAMO. For the high industrial impact of her work she was awarded the ETH Medal, the Fritz Kutter Prize and IBM Research Devision Award.