Jana de Wiljes

Prof. Jana de Wiljes is a Professor of Mathematics at Technische Universität Ilmenau (TU Ilmenau), leading the Mathematics of Data Science Group since October 2023. She concurrently holds a Visiting Professorship in Mathematics at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (Finland). Her expertise spans sequential learning, data assimilation, and Bayesian inference, with applications in climate science, space weather modeling, and medical informatics.

Education: PhD in Machine Learning from Freie Universität Berlin, awarded the Tiburtius Prize for her dissertation on data-driven spatiotemporal models. Professional roles include Principal Investigator for German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded projects on data assimilation since 2017.

Research focuses on developing algorithms for high-dimensional inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, and causal link identification in medicine. She explores reinforcement learning for therapy optimization and nonlinear/nonstationary system analysis.

Awards: Tiburtius Prize (2017). Academic recognition includes the Finnish Dosentti title (2022), equivalent to German habilitation. Active in interdisciplinary collaborations bridging mathematics, engineering, and environmental sciences.