Kerstin Schill

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Kerstin Marion Schill ( April 6, 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German computer scientist and human biologist. She is the head of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroinformatics at the University of Bremen and the Rector of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) in Delmenhorst . She has also been Vice Director of the German Research Foundation since 2019 .

Career

Schill was born in Stuttgart in 1958 and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich from 1977 before switching to computer science in 1979. In 1987 she completed her computer science studies with a diploma. In her diploma thesis she dealt with so-called expert systems and then went on to work as a research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where she was the first computer scientist to join an interdisciplinary research team that investigated the functioning of the brain .

She received her PhD in human biology in Munich in 1993 with a thesis on iconic memory and then headed the Computational Intelligence research group at her institute as a postdoc for ten years , before being appointed professor and head of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroinformatics in 2003 . Here she set up her own interdisciplinary research group. In 2018 she also took over the rectorate at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, an “ Institute for Advanced Studies ”, in which researchers can work on their projects as part of fellowships and network on an interdisciplinary basis.

From 2011/12 to 2018, Schill was dean of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Bremen and from 2014 to 2019 spokesperson for the science focus Minds, Media, Machines as part of the university's excellence initiative .

In the German Research Foundation, she was initially involved in the IT specialist board from 2012 and as a senator from 2014 before she was elected Vice President in mid-2019. In addition, she holds numerous other offices in scientific organizations and institutions, for example, she is partly represented as head of around 20 appointment commissions (Fraunhofer, DLR, etc.).

Schill's research focus is the investigation of the cognitive abilities of biological systems and the transfer of the knowledge gained to intelligent technical or "biologically inspired" systems. Your projects are largely interdisciplinary; Concrete applications emerge from the interaction between neurosciences and computer science, for example "cognitive autonomous space navigation " or systems for autonomous driving , for fall detection in old people or for monitoring bee colonies. In addition, Schill took over the management of projects of the Research Ministry to increase the proportion of women in computer science.

Publications (selection)

  • Medical expert systems: methods and techniques . Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-21167-6 .
  • A spatiotemporal model to describe iconic memory . (also dissertation, Munich 1993). Munich 1992.
  • with Elisabeth Umkehrer, Stephan Beinlich, Gerhard Krieger, Christoph Zetzsche: Scene analysis with saccadic eye movements: top-down and bottom-up modeling . In: Journal of Electronic Imaging . tape 10 , no. 1 , January 2001, ISSN  1017-9909 , p. 152-161 , doi : 10.1117 / 1.1329627 .
  • with David Nakath, Joachim Clemens: Multi-Sensor Fusion and Active Perception for Autonomous Deep Space Navigation . In: 2018 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) . July 2018, p. 2596–2605 , doi : 10.23919 / ICIF.2018.8455788 ( ieee.org [accessed February 8, 2020]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DFG - German Research Foundation - Professor Dr. Kerstin Schill. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schill . In: University of Bremen / Equal Opportunities Office (Ed.): Unispitzen - Spitzenuni. Portrait of women professors . (Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition UNISPITZEN - Portrait of Female Professors from December 13, 2011 to January 31, 2012 at the University of Bremen). Bremen 2012, p. 60 ( online at uni-bremen.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ a b “And every beginning has a magic inherent in it.” In: University of Bremen / Equal Opportunities Office (Ed.): Unispitzen - Spitzenuni. Portrait of women professors . (Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition UNISPITZEN - Portrait of Female Professors from December 13, 2011 to January 31, 2012 at the University of Bremen). Bremen 2012, p. 42 ( online at uni-bremen.de [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Kerstin Schill: A spatial-temporal model for the description of the iconic memory . ( dnb.de [accessed on February 8, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Kerstin Schill now heads the Hanse Science College . In: Bremen University Key . No. 152 . Bremen November 2018, p. 10 .
  6. ↑ Rector Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schill. In: hwk.de. July 18, 2019, accessed February 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ DFG - German Research Foundation - Two new vice-presidents for the DFG. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Kerstin Marion Schill. In: cognitive-neuroinformatics.com. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Home - Cognitive Neuroinformatics. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ OFFIS: smile team. Accessed February 8, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Schill, Kerstin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schill, Kerstin Marion (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and human biologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart