Sebastian Vollmer

Sebastian Vollmer is a Professor for Application of Machine Learning at the University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) since 2021 and a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He has previously held tenured positions as an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick (2016–2021), a Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford (2014–2016), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford (2013–2014).

His research bridges machine learning, Bayesian inference, and computational statistics with applications in health informatics, social good, and physics-informed anomaly detection. He has led initiatives at the Alan Turing Institute, including the Data Science for Social Good program and Health & Medical Sciences Programme.

Vollmer's recent work focuses on biologically informed neural networks, narrative priming in public goods games, and knowledge retrieval from large language models. His projects include PIAD (personalized AI-based lifestyle interventions), ML-Bau-Doc+ (ML for building documentation), and TrustifAI (trustworthy AI for health).

• Scientific Awards:
  • 2014 Faculty Prize, University of Warwick
  • 2009-13 German Academy Foundation Scholarship
  • 2009 3rd Prize, International Mathematics Competition

He supervises PhD and MSc students in data science, leads research departments at DFKI, and collaborates with startups like Cera Care and Fly Notes to address public sector challenges.