Experience

Research positions

Co-Founder and Chief Researcher

Feb 2024 – Present Linz(Austria)

Together with Dennis Just and Miks Mikelsons, I have co-founded Emmi AI, where I am Chief Scientiest. At Emmi AI, we are redefining how industries innovate. Traditional simulations are slow, expensive, and computationally heavy. We make them fast, scalable and intelligent! Our AI-Powered physics architecture and models unlock Real-time interaction, slashing simulation times from days to seconds.

Chief Researcher

NXAI

Feb 2024 – Present Linz(Austria)

Chief Researcher at NXAI, building up a world-class research unit for LLM modeling and AI4Simulation.

Assistant Professor, Group Lead

Johannes Kepler University (JKU)

Oct 2023 – Present Linz (Austria)

Group lead at the Institute for Machine Learning at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU). I have started a group “AI for data-driven simulations”.

Visiting Researcher

Microsoft Research

Oct 2023 – Jan 2024 Amsterdam

Visiting Researcher in the AI4Science lab at Microsoft Research. I keep working with my amazing team in Amsterdam/Cambridge/Redmond. We are pushing the limits!

Senior Researcher

Microsoft Research

Jan 2022 – Sep 2023 Amsterdam

Senior Researcher in the AI4Science lab at Microsoft Research. I have built a new research group for large-scale PDE modeling. Some of the research highlights comprise Geometric (Clifford) algebras networks, PDEArena, and ClimaX: the first foundation model for weather and climate.

ELLIS PostDoc

University of Amsterdam (AMLab)

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 Amsterdam

ELLIS PostDoc researcher in the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab hosted by Max Welling. For my research, I received the ELISE mobility program.

Tenure Track Professor

Johannes Kepler University (JKU)

Aug 2020 – Dec 2022 Linz (Austria)

Tenure Track position at the Institute for Machine Learning of Sepp Hochreiter at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz.

PostDoc

Johannes Kepler University (JKU)

Jul 2018 – Jul 2020 Linz (Austria)

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Machine Learning of Sepp Hochreiter at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz.

PhD Researcher

CMS Experiment

Jan 2015 – Apr 2018 CERN (Geneva)

PhD researcher at the CMS experiment at CERN. The CMS experiment is one of two general purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, responsible for e.g., the discovery of the Higgs boson.

Master and PhD Researcher

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/hephy/home

Jan 2013 – Apr 2018 Vienna (Austria)

Master and PhD researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, working at the Institute for High-Energy Physics. My PhD Thesis thesis was on the decay of neutral Higgs and Z bosons into pairs of tau leptons.

Teaching

Future Courses

Theoretical Concepts of Machine Learning (summer term 2024)

More information will follow soon.

Deep Learning III - Geometric Deep Learning (winter term 2024/2025)

More information will follow soon.

Past Courses

I have been teaching different courses of the Bachelor and Master program “Artificial Intelligence” at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz.

Winter 2020/2021: Exercises in Hands-on AI I, Lecturer
Winter 2020/2021: Lecture in Hands-on AI I, Lecturer
Summer 2020: Lecture in Hands-on AI II, Lecturer
Winter 2019/2020: Lecture in Hands-on AI I, Lecturer
Winter 2019/2020: Exercises in Machine Learning: Supervised Techniques, Lecturer
Winter 2019/2020: Lecture in Machine Learning: Supervised Techniques, Lecturer
Summer 2019: Exercises in Theoretical Concepts of Machine Learning, Lecturer
Summer 2019: Exercises in Machine Learning: Unsupervised Techniques, Lecturer
Winter 2018/2019: Lecture in Numerical and Symbolic Methods for Bioinformatics, Lecturer
Winter 2018/2019: Exercises in Machine Learning: Supervised Techniques, Lecturer