Kristian Kersting is co-director of the Hessian Center for AI (hessian.AI), head of research at the German Research Center for AI / Darmstadt, and professor of AI and machine learning at TU Darmstadt. After his PhD at the Univrsity of Freiburg in 2006, he was with the MIT, Fraunhofer IAIS, the University of Bonn and the TU Dortmund. He is an AAAI, EurAI and ELLIS Fellow, coauthor of the popoular science book “Wie Maschinen Lernen”, winner of the “German AI Prize”, member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and seed investor at Aleph Alpha, one of Europe's AI hopes. in collaboration with Aleph Alpha Research, he also runs the collaboration lab 1141 at TU Darsmtadt on safe and transparent generative AI. He had a regular AI column in the Welt (am Sonntag).