Manager Foundation Models & GenAI Systems
I am the Site Lead of Fraunhofer IAIS in Dresden, where I head an interdisciplinary team working since 2022 on the development and application of sovereign and open source large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. Our expertise spans the full lifecycle: from dataset creation, pretraining and continued pretraining to fine-tuning and instruction tuning. We carry out this work in European flagship projects such as SOOFI, TrustLLM, OpenEuroLLM.
In my leadership role, I combine scientific excellence with strategic impact. My team develops bespoke GenAI solutions for industry partners across diverse sectors, including scalable enterprise chatbots and specialised tools for semantic search and knowledge access.
With a PhD in physics and ten years of research in neuroscience and cellular physiology, I bring an analytical perspective on complex systems. Today, I apply this background to transform AI innovation into strategic business value, with a focus on scalability, digital sovereignty and sustainable impact.