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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 15h

🌡️🍂 September 2026 in Jena: another unusually warm month. ☀️The month was 2.4°C warmer than the 1991–2020 average in Thuringia, with 9 summer days and 1 hot day in Jena. 🌧️ With ~40 mm of precipitation, it was also significantly drier than average. 📊 Source: @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 17h

👋 Welcome to the team, Tristan Piater! Tristan is a PhD candidate at @zeissgroup.bsky.social and the Computer Vision Group Jena at @uni-jena.de. His research focuses on advancing vision foundation models for specialized image domains and adapting them to segmentation tasks through prompting.🧑‍💻

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🍂 We’re already looking back at our September Team Lunch! 🥗 Good food & time to connect beyond our usual routines with @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social , Mohamed Bourriz, Nathalie Demme, Jonathan Frank, David Mickisch, Sophie Biskop, Conrad Philipp, @thomaswolfers.bsky.social, Bing Xu & Auther Maviza

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👋 Welcome to the team, Laines Schmalwasser! Laines is a PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group Jena- @uni-jena.de and a research scientist at the @dlr-de.bsky.social ✈️ As part of the LOKI project, he develops methods to explain AI assistants to human aircraft operators.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 29/09/2026

🎓 Have questions about the #ELLISPhD Program before you apply? Join the virtual info session tomorrow 30 Sep at 16:00 CEST to get them answered. You’ve got nothing to lose by attending. Register now at bit.ly/4ddrNIR

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👋 Welcome to the team, @kaihcohrs.bsky.social ! Kai-Hendrik is an ELLIS PhD candidate at the @isp-uv-es.bsky.social , University of Valencia & @bgc-jena.mpg.de 🌍 His research explores robust inference & extrapolation in hybrid models for the terrestrial carbon cycle. Welcome to the ELLIS Unit Jena!

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🎓 Excellence Strategy decision will be made on October 2! @dfg.de - @wissenschaftsrat.de 📅 The universities and university alliances selected as Universities of Excellence will be announced. 📸: ELLIS Unit Jena team during the on-site evaluation. Keeping our fingers crossed for the @uni-jena.de ! 🤞

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚀Join today's webinar titled "Entering the next era of AI" by Prof. Dr. @hochreitersepp.bsky.social (director of @litailab.bsky.social) 🎙️Moderator: Conrad Heinz Philipp (ELLIS Unit Jena Coordinator) aiforgood.itu.int/event/enteri...

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 24/09/2026

🎓 Curious about AI and innovation? Check out these upcoming events for PhDs in the Tübingen/Stuttgart area: 🔹 AI Builder Camp — 8-10 Oct, @tuebingen-ai.bsky.social 🔸 Frontier AI Innovation Summit — 7-8 Oct, Messe Stuttgart See the program & register for one or both events: bit.ly/4ydxQ8J

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🌍🌱 The ELLIS Unit Jena Research Frontiers video features Dr. Alex Winkler! His research explores atmosphere–biosphere interactions and climate feedbacks using Earth system modelling, Earth observations & machine learning. 🧠 🎥Now watch the full video: youtu.be/nqfErnoRdu4?...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

👋 Welcome to the team, Christian Ickler! Christian is a PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group at @uni-jena.de. His research focuses İn cooperation with @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social, on multimodal models for fine-grained visual classification, using text to distinguish visually similar classes.

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🌍🔬 L³ Zukunftsdialog: Klima, Wandel, Wissenschaft We were happy to participate with our poster at the L³ Zukunftsdialog by @uni-jena.de! 🌱 With 170 attendees, the event sparked lively conversations around climate, change & science. 💬🤝 more: www.uni-jena.de/434852/l3-zu... 📸 Anna Schroll I @ellis.eu

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Proud to support MLCN 2026! 🧠 Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging 📅 Oct 1, 2026 | Strasbourg, France Exploring ML, computational neuroscience & medical neuroimaging, with talks on brain imaging, EEG, multimodal AI and interpretable learning. 🔗 Info: mlcnworkshop.github.io

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

👋 Welcome to the ELLIS Unit Jena team, Dong Han! Dong is an industrial PhD candidate at Huawei and the Computer Vision Group Jena @uni-jena.de, supervised by Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler. 🔍 His research focuses on trustworthy AI and privacy-preserving computer vision. Welcome to the team, Dong! 🚀

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚀 Join the upcoming webinar series "From Molecules to Models" host by AI for Good. Join Prof. Dr. Sepp Hochreiter (@hochreitersepp.bsky.social), Director of @litailab.bsky.social for the talk on the future of AI, on efficient architectures like xLSTM. 🔗 aiforgood.itu.int/event/enteri...

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Entering the next era of AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now entering its third phase. The first phase was driven by basic research; the second by scaling where ever-larger

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

👋 Welcome to team, Rakesh Etikala! 💻 Rakesh is a PhD candidate & research associate in the Computer Vision Group at @uni-jena.de.As part of the GENAI-X Project, his research focuses on uncertainty estimation for non-stationary spatio-temporal regimes. 🚀 We look forward to his contributions!

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🌍 Prof. Dr. Markus Reichstein at the ZEIT Wissen Kongress in the panel „Polykrise? Nicht mit uns!“ 🌱 How can we drive transformation and keep climate protection on the agenda in challenging times? 🔄 📅 09.09.2026 | 🕕 18:15–19:00 🔗 Kongressprogramm: mut-zur-nachhaltigkeit.zeit.de/programm-2026/

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Programm 2026 | ZEIT WISSEN Kongress

Der Kongress zu Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz mit Expert*innen aus Wissenschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Aktivismus

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We’re excited to welcome Nathalie Demme to the ELLIS Unit Jena team! 🧬 Nathalie is a PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group Jena at @uni-jena.de where her research focuses on medical image segmentation and classification using deep federated learning 🧠🏥.

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🌡️ August was another month of above-average temperatures 🔥 Jena was 1.3°C warmer than the 1991–2020 average with no precipitation in the first half of month with clear signs of drought. 📊 in 2026, temperatures are 0.8°C above average with 6 of 8 months warmer. via @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

👋 Welcome to the ELLIS Unit Jena team, Tim Büchner! 🎉 Tim joins the Computer Vision Group Jena at @uni-jena.de as a PhD candidate, supervised by Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler. His research combines 3D facial geometry, sEMG & video to study how muscle activity translates into facial expressions. 🧠🔬

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📚✨ In August our researchers contributed to 18 publications, with 13 ELLIS Unit Jena members as first or last authors. 🌍 👏 Congratulations to al the researchers! 🔎 Explore all publications and discover the latest research from ELLIS Unit Jena: www.ellis-jena.ai/publications/

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

📢 September is coming with a full month ahead! 🚀 Join the 𝗥𝗦𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝗡𝗧𝗨𝗔 𝗦𝗰·𝗔𝗜·𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲 online, the invited talk series, powered by the #MeDiTwin Project.🛰️ 🕒 11 Sept I 11:00–12:00 EEST | 10:00–11:00 CET 👤 Miguel Ángel Fernández Torres 🔗 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

👋 Welcome to the ELLIS Unit Jena team, David Mickisch! David recently started his ELLIS PhD with Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler at the Computer Vision Group Jena at @uni-jena.de His research focuses on probability density estimation, with interests in uncertainty quantification & causality.

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🤖 At Jena Digital Summer Summit, Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler @uni-jena.de joined the panel “Between Innovation and Dependence: How Sovereign Is Our AI Future?” 🇪🇺💡 The discussion explored Europe’s tech dependencies and how Germany & Europe can strengthen their AI expertise.

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🚀 Which ideas can break down walls? Join us at Falling Walls Lab Jena on 10 September! 🌍Hear bold ideas from students, early-career researchers & innovators . 🗳️ Vote for the Audience Award 📅 10 Sept 2026 |🕔 5 PM | Imaginata, Jena 🎟️ Free admission & registration : indico.rz.uni-jena.de/event/351/

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🍽️ August Team Lunch! Our team grew bigger this week! Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler invited his group — a great chance to connect & welcome new faces.🤝✨ We also launched our🔬 5-Minute Research Spotlight, with Jorrit van Gils giving the first pitch! 🚀 More research stories & collaborations to come! 🤝

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🤖 The biggest AI Barcamp in Central Germany is back! 🚀 📅 25–26 Sept 2026 📍 Freie Gesamtschule Universaale, Jena-Paradies 🎯 AI in Business, Science, Education & Society 100+ participants, discussions, workshops & plenty of AI inspiration. 👉 Register: ki-barcamp.de

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🎬 Now watch the recap: youtu.be/mKex-lg34cA?... 🤖 🧠 Three inspiring talks given by: @hila-chefer.bsky.social , @margretkeuper.bsky.social and @simoneschaub.bsky.social, exploring visual understanding, reliability,transparency & deep vision models at 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀💫

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🎥As the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium #EDS2026 came to an end, we look back on inspiring days filled with engaging discussions, and valuable connections.🤖🌍 🎬✨Watch the recap video: youtu.be/vEL3LdVTYwE?si =QxSMlO3vKUTEtns7 📸 Photos: ellis-jena.ai/eds-2026/ Video credits: Lukas Zittlau

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ELLIS Doctoral Symposium (EDS) 2026

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🚀 Join the Jena Digital Summer Summit on 27 August at Normannenhaus Jena! At 4 pm, Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler joins the panel “Between Innovation and Dependence: How Sovereign Is Our AI Future?” ➡️ Register: www.eventbrite.de/e/jena-digit...

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Jena Digital SUMMER SUMMIT 26

Das Sommerfest von Jena Digital – mit Networking, Vibes und Talks rund um Digitalisierung & Innovation.

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

💧🌱 “Connecting Research – Water, Soil, Food” Organized by @uni-jena.de, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena & @hsanhalt.bsky.social 📅 Sept 22 | 1–5 PM 📍 ZAF Jena 📝 Register by Aug 28 ! 👇 Check the details and register indico.rz.uni-jena.de/event/389/ #Research #Networking #Jena

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

👋 Meet our new team member, Fabian Schreiter! 🎓 A PhD candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena @uni-jena.de, Fabian researches landslide prediction by combining hydrological components with machine learning models. 🏔️🤖 🌐 GIScience Group: lnkd.in/gJQMRGXY #ELLIS #MachineLearning #Geoinformatics

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🌐 High 5, Jena Digital! On Aug 27, the Jena Digital Summer Summit celebrates 5 years of Jena Digital e.V. and explores the next step: from a local network to an innovation ecosystem connecting business, science, startups & more. 🚀 Registration: www.innox-thueringen.de/groups/jena-...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#NeurIPS2026 workshop by @climatechangeai.bsky.social "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning", will take place on Dec 11/12 in Sydney, Australia. 🗓️ • Mentorship program: Aug 1 • Abstract deadline: Aug 22 • Full submission deadline: Aug29 Learn more: t.co/NqiENwTCyj

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌿🌍 ELLIS Unit Jena Research Highlights – #July2026 In July, 15 publications were authored by 13 ELLIS Unit Jena members as first or last authors in international journals, showcasing advances in #AI and #EnvironmentalScience.📚 👉 Check out the Publications: www.ellis-jena.ai/publications/

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌦️ #July26 in Jena Half of the month's average rainfall fell in just 2 hours.July was 0.6°C warmer than the 1991–2020 average.The month ended with one of the 20 hottest days ever recorded in Jena. ⚠️A striking reminder of the growing frequency of weather extremes. Via: @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ELLIS Doctoral Symposium #EDS2026 concluded with the closing remarks, the Best Poster Awards, and a memorable Gala Dinner. 🎉Thank you to all organizers, speakers, and participants the event filled with outstanding research and discussions. Until next time! 👏 @ellis.eu @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On Day 3 of the ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026 in Lisbon 🇵🇹, Gustau Camps-Valls gave his talk titled "Climate Extremes: Explaining, Attributing, Communicating with AI" as a keynote speaker. Thank you again for the thought-provoking discussions! 🚀@ellis.eu @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social @uv.es

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌟 Day 2 at the @ellis.eu ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2026 in Lisbon! The inspiring day filled with panel discussion, Early Career Talks, Keynote Speakers and Poster Session. Finished the day with a beautiful 🌅 rooftop gathering. @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social More about: sites.google.com/view/eds2026...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📸 The people behind the ELLIS community. It is a great opportunity to meet and reconnect with colleagues from across the @ellis.eu network at the Doctoral Symposium 2026 in Lisbon. 🇵🇹🤝 Looking forward to continuing to strengthen Europe's AI research community together! #EDS2026

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

ELLIS Unit Jena is in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 We're excited to be part of the @ellis.eu ELLIS Doctoral Symposium on Trustworthy AI 2026 at @istecnico.bsky.social @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social ,INESC-ID Lisboa, @isrlisboa.bsky.social ,Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, @zuseschooleliza.bsky.social ,ELIAS

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎤 Team Tales #51: Meet Jorrit van Gils! 🐞 How can AI help monitor biodiversity? 🌿🤖 Hear how Jorrit uses computer vision to identify insect species and why interdisciplinary collaboration at ELLIS inspires his research. 🎥 Watch now: youtu.be/pwo0B6ylneI?...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎤 Team Tales #50: Meet Jayesh Tripathi ! @jaysnrays.bsky.social How can AI stay reliable in changing real-world conditions? 🌍🤖 Hear how Jayesh's research on causal machine learning and trustworthy AI is tackling this challenge. 🎥 youtu.be/aLOVkWTW_kw?...

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Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Wie lässt sich das an Beispielen Erlernte verlässlich auf neue, unbekannte Situationen anwenden? Die Frage nach dem Erreichen einer robusten #Modellgeneralisierbarkeit ist eine der grundlegenden Herausforderungen für die Arbeit mit #KünstlicherIntelligenz. Foto: Gyulsen Yordanova Akkaya

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🚀 Looking back at the launch of #GENAIX! On 22–23 June, researchers and partners came together for the Kick-off and the workshop to address environmental challenges🌍🤖 @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social @uni-jena.de ▶️ youtu.be/bRP5fW17D44 ▶️ youtu.be/swRlwb8oLC0 🔗 www.ellis-jena.ai/genai-x-kick...

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GENAI-X Kick-off (June 22, 2026)

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📢Hiring: Postdoctoral Position The Key Profile Area "Intelligent Methods for Earth System Sciences" (IMfESS) at @unicologne.bsky.social is currently recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher. 🎓🌍 🔗 Learn more about IMfESS: imfess.uni-koeln.de 📄View the job post: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

✨🌍The ELLIS Annual Report 2025 is out now! Some highlights regarding ELLIS Unit Jena from the report: 🇪🇺📖AI for Good Global Summit 2025 (Geneva) ellis.eu/news/ellis-a... 🌱ELLIS Winter & Summer Schools www.ellis-jena.ai/summer-schoo...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

👋 Welcome our new team member Jayesh Tripathi! Jayesh (@jaysnrays.bsky.social) is an ELLIS PhD candidate at @uni-jena.de's Computer Vision Group, researching robust and trustworthy AI systems that generalize under changing real-world conditions. 🤖🌍 🌐 inf-cv.uni-jena.de/home/staff/t...

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🦋🤖 Welcome to our new team member Jorrit van Gils! Jorrit is a PhD candidate in the Computer Vision Group Jena at @uni-jena.de, researching fine-grained Lepidoptera classification and how data, models, and taxonomic knowledge can improve recognition. 🌐 jorritvangils.com

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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Meet our team member in Team Tales #49: Felix Henkel. Felix is a PhD student at @uni-jena.de using statistical methods and machine learning to predict forest soil moisture and support reforestation. 🌍🌲 He values the ELLIS network for its interdisciplinary collaboration. youtu.be/Bj2PVBkOATQ?...

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