Sebastian Weichwald

Sebastian Weichwald is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. He leads the Copenhagen Causality Lab (CoCaLa) and co-leads the Causality and Explainability (CX) collaboratory at the Pioneer Centre for AI. His academic journey includes a PhD at ETH Zurich (2019) and postdoctoral work at the University of Copenhagen.

• Research Interests: Causal Modelling, Causal Discovery, Structural Equation Models, Time Series Analysis, Neuroimaging, Biomedical Data Analysis.
• Awards: Best student paper at CIP 2014, Winner of Causality 4 Climate NeurIPS 2019 competition.
• Collaborations: Active in interdisciplinary projects with applications in cardiology, neuroscience, and biomedical imaging.

Software Tools: Developed open-source libraries including CausalDisco, coroICA, tidybench, and Pymanopt for causal discovery, signal processing, and manifold optimization.