Vera Demberg, Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, has been admitted to the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. She is now a full member of the Class of Humanities and Social Sciences class, one of the academy’s three classes. In total, the Academy has admitted six new members in this round.

Vera Demberg began her career at Saarland University in 2010 as head of an independent research group in the Computer Science Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction”. She has been Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at Saarland University since 2016. In 2020, Vera Demberg was awarded a 1.5 million euro Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project “Individualized Interaction in Discourse”. In 2023, she was appointed a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and is now conducting research on artificial intelligence and machine learning in the Saarbrücken-based ELLIS unit “SAM”. Since 2024, she is also a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics at the Saarland Informatics Campus.

The computer scientist from Saarbrücken has now been admitted to the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. The Academy is a non-university research institution and scholarly society. As one of the eight academies of science in Germany, which are united in the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, its objectives are both the cultivation of the sciences and literature and the preservation and promotion of culture. In particular, the Academy also deals with current socially relevant topics such as climate change, the effects of AI on society, globalization, biomedical ethics and the problem of an ageing society. In the area of science funding, the Academy focuses on the field of long-term basic research.

More Information:
https://www.adwmainz.de/en/academy.html

Background Saarland Informatics Campus:
900 scientists (including 400 PhD students) and approx. 2500 students from more than 80 nations make the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC) one of the leading locations for computer science in Germany and Europe. Four world-renowned research institutes, namely the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems,  and the Center for Bioinformatics along with  Saarland University and its three departments and 24 degree programs, together  cover the entire spectrum of computer science.

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