Anna Kreshuk is a group leader and acting deputy head of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. She received a PhD in Computer Science from Heidelberg University in 2012. Following this, she worked as a PostDoc in the Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI). She joined EMBL in July 2018, where her research group develops novel computer vision methods for the analysis of microscopy images. Beyond method development, she is also committed to the democratisation of machine learning for the lifescience community, contributing to multipleopen-source tools. She is an ELLIS scholar and a scientific co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe funded project AI4Life.

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