Tim Rocktäschel is a full professor of artificial intelligence at the Centre for AI at University College London (UCL) where he is the principal investigator of the UCL Deciding, Acting, and Reasoning with Knowledge (DARK) Lab, and a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). He is also a Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Before, he was a Manager, Research Scientist, and Area Lead at Meta AI (FAIR), a Postdoctoral Researcher in Reinforcement Learning at the Whiteson Research Lab at the University of Oxford, a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at Jesus College, and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Computer Science at Hertford College. He obtained his Ph.D. from UCL under the supervision of Sebastian Riedel, where he was awarded a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Scholarship in 2013 and a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in 2017. His work focuses on Artificial General Intelligence, Open-Endedness, Foundational World Models, and Self-Improvement, and it has received two Best Paper Awards at ICML in 2024 and a Keynote at ICLR in 2025.

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