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Life Science
Material Science
Planet & Climate
Society & Community
Science for AI
Policy for AI in Science
Plenary
Yoshua Bengio
University of Montréal & LawZero
Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montreal, Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero.
Max Welling
CTO and Co-founder of CuspAI and Professor at University of Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Max Welling is a research chair in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam and a Merkin distinguished visiting professor at Caltech.
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission
Henna Virkkunen serves as the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy at the European Commission, a role she assumed in December 2024.
Ekaterina Zaharieva
Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation at the European Commission
Ekaterina Zaharieva is Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation at the European Commision.
Christina Egelund
Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science
The minister will highlight the priority of AI in the strategy the Council of the European Union and Denmark.
David Dreyer Lassen
Rector, University of Copenhagen
At AIS25, Rector will highlight UCPH’s vision for AI in Science as part of the university’s overall vision for research and innovation in Europe.
Peter Sarlin
CEO and co-founder of Silo AI
Peter Sarlin is the CEO and co-founder of Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI lab, and a Professor of Practice at Aalto University
Lene Oddershede
Senior Vice President, Natural & Technical Sciences, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Lene Oddershede leads the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s initiatives in natural and technical sciences. A physicist by training, she previously held a professorship at the Niels Bohr Institute.
Fabian J. Theis
Head of Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center
Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis is the head of the Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center and Director of the Institute for Computational Biology.
Teresa Czerwińska
Vice-President, European Investment Bank
Teresa Czerwińska was appointed the Vice President of the European Investment Bank in March 2020.
Maria Cristina Russo
Director, Prosperity, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
Maria Cristina Russo is Director of the Prosperity Directorate in DG Research and Innovation.
Mikkel Leihardt
Director General, Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science (UFS)
Mikkel Leihardt heads the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science, overseeing national strategies for research, innovation, and education policy.
Lars Frølund
Board Member, European Innovation Council (EIC); Lecturer, MIT
Lars Frølund serves on the EIC Board and lectures at MIT, focusing on deep tech, innovation ecosystems, and strategic technology policy.
Serge Belongie
Chair of the AIS25 Steering Committee, Board President of ELLIS, Director of the Danish Pioneer Centre for AI, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen
Serge Belongie's research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, and Human-in-the-Loop Computing
Silke Obst
Head of Unit at the Commission’s Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
With her background in law, Silke Obst bridges legal and technical fields.
Annelies Van de Ven
Policy officer at the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission
Annelies works to promote Open Science practices across the research community and in valorising the AI portfolio of the MSCA.
Sven Jager
Sven Jager, Global Head of R&D Data and Computational Science, Sanofi
Since 2025, Sven has led the R&D Data and Computational Science Team at Sanofi, expanding his scope for AI Research on Target Discovery, translational topics, and Development at Sanofi.
Life Science
Aasa Feragen
CSO of Prenaital and Professor at DTU Compute
Aasa's research sits at the intersection of machine learning, mathematics, and medical imaging with a particular focus on bringing responsible AI tools to practical use.
Agata Laydon
Portfolio Lead Life Sciences, Google DeepMind Accelerator
Agata specialises in building partnerships and products that turn technological breakthroughs into progress for people and the planet.
Aleksandra Zaniewska
AI Lead at BII
Aleksandra Zaniewska combines technical depth with strategic vision to advance responsible and scalable AI innovation.
Anna Kreshuk
Curator Life Science
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.
Brian Hashemi
Ph.D. MBA & CEO and Chairman of Novigenix SA
Brian Hashemi's work is currently focused on delivering AI-enabled immune intelligence in order to advance drug development and patient care.
Ewan Birney
Interim Executive Director of EMBL
Ewan is a non-executive Director of Genomics England, and a consultant and advisor to a number of companies, including Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Cantata Bio.
Florian Jug
Senior Research Group Leader, Human Technopole, Italy
Florian Jug's research focuses on generative models, multimodal data integration, and uncertainty quantification to bridge molecular, cellular, and tissue scales.
Hugues Roest Crollius
Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Paris, France
Hugues Roest Crollius' research focuses on understanding how genomes evolve and how their structure underpins biological innovation.
Jean-Philippe Vert
CEO and Co-Founder, Bioptimus, France
Jean-Phillipe Vert is a leading expert in AI for life sciences.
Jonathan Wareham
ESADE, Ramon Llull University; Lisbon Council
Jonathan Wareham's research focuses on the deep technology, scientific computing, scientific policy, and how these are influencing industries such as life science and energy.
Jun Seita
Team Director (Principal Investigator) / Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, RIKEN, Japan
Jun Seita's research interests cover the areas where AI meets biology, medicine, and beyond.
Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Kresten Lindorff's research focuses on combining biophysics and machine learning to study the structure and dynamics of proteins with uses in basic science, biotechnology and personalized medicine.
Luis Valente
CEO & Co-Founder, iLoF, Portugal
Luis Valente is on a mission to accelerate adequate treatments for millions of patients living with complex, heterogeneous diseases around the globe with the use of AI technology.
Michael Bronstein
DeepMind Professor of AI, University of Oxford
Michael Bronstein is a Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, BCS, and ELLIS, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and World Economic Forum Young Scientist.
Oliver Stegle
Curator Life Science
Professor Oliver Stegle is a computational biologist who is developing machine learning methods for deciphering molecular variation across individuals, space and time.
Sameer Velankaar
Section Head, EMBL-EBI
Sameer Velankar works to develop advanced data analysis, as well as data query and visualisation tools to support fundamental and translational research and education.
Tommi Nyrönen
Director, ELIXIR Finland
Tommi Kasvokuva is an adjunct professor in computational drug discovery at the University of Helsinki.
Materials science
Andy Cooper
Professor at University of Liverpool
Professor at University of Liverpool. Academic Director of the Materials Innovation Factory and Director of Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design
Andy S. Anker
NNF postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Denmark
Dr Andy S. Anker is an NNF postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Denmark and a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford.
Gabor Csanyi
Professor of Molecular Modeling at the Engineering Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
Gabor Csanyi is Professor of Molecular Modeling at the Engineering Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
Michele Ceriotti
Professor at EPFL, Institute of Materials
Michele Ceriotti unites rigorous statistical mechanics with machine learning to map structure–property relations from first principles.
Ross King
Professor of Machine Intelligence at Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ross King is now one of the most experienced AI researchers in Europe with a main research interest in AI for science.
Tejs Vegge
Curator for Material Science
Professor Tejs Vegge, Director of the Pioneer Center for Accelerating P2X Materials Discovery (CAPeX), DTU Energy, DTU, and member of the EC Technology Council for Advanced Materials
Max Welling
CTO and Co-founder of CuspAI and Professor at University of Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Max Welling is a research chair in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam and a Merkin distinguished visiting professor at Caltech.
Planet & Climate
Alexander Rudolf Diehl
Senior Advisor to Cyber Valley
Alexis Boukouvalas
Research Engineering Team Lead at DeepMind
Christian Igel
Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. director of the SCIENCE AI Centre
Christian Igel is a professor at DIKU, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.
Florence Rabier
Director-General of ECMWF
Dr. Florence Rabier is an internationally recognised expert in Numerical Weather Prediction
Giuseppe Borghi
Giuseppe Borghi leads the Φ-lab Division to ‘accelerates the future of Earth observation’,
Giuseppe Borghi leads the Φ-lab Division to ‘accelerates the future of Earth observation’,
Jonas Peters
Professor of Statistics at ETH Zurich
Jonas Peters' work relates to areas such as causal inference, distribution generalization, Earth system science, dynamical systems, and policy learning.
Kimmo Koski
CEO, CSC
Dr. Kimmo Koski started as a CEO at CSC in August 2004 with a mission to support Finnish research providing world-class e-infrastructure and related services.
Leif Denby
Senior Research Scientist in Weather Research Unit of the Danish Meteorological Institute
Leif Denby's research focusses on the dynamics and effects of convective clouds on climate.
Markus Reichstein
Curator for Planet & Climate Science
Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Director, ELLIS Unit Jena; Director, ELLIS Program Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences; Professor for Global Ecology, University of Jena
Mohamed Hedi Karray
EIC Programme Manager for Artificial Intelligence
Salvatore Pinto
Digital Innovation Engineer at ESA/ESRIN
Sašo Džeroski
Curator for Planet & Climate Science
Sašo Džeroski is the Head of Department of Knowledge technologies and professor at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.
Society & Community
Alberto Di Meglio
Head of Innovation, CERN
Alberto Di Meglio leads CERN openlab and quantum tech initiatives. He is an expert in AI for high-energy physics and public-private R&D collaborations.
Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen
Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen specializes in education policy and predictive analytics using large-scale data. He work lies at the intersection of economics and social data science.
Arturo Valdivia
Postdoc, IT University of Copenhagen
Arturo Valdivia works in datascience and natural language processing. He is a member of the brAIn lab, focusing on AI and computational creativity.
Frederik Hertel
Associate Professor, Aalborg University (ETUC/AAU)
Frederik Hertel researches in creativity, leadership, and ethical innovation in organizations. He is active in European labor and tech policy discussions.
Lisa Reutter
Postdoc, University of Copenhagen
Lisa Reutter specializes in datafication of public administration and algorithmic governance. Her research focuses on public-private data flows and welfare tech.
Morten Axel Pedersen
Moderator & Professor at University of Copenhagen
Morten Axel Pedersen is an anthropologist and social data scientist. His research focuses on tech sovereignty, AI governance, and computational ethnography.
Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Curator for Society & Communities
Rebecca Adler-Nissen is the director of the Danish National Centre for AI in Society (CAISA), University of Copenhagen.
Serge Goriely
Filmmaker and Researcher, UCLouvain
Serge Goriely explores intersections of cinema, philosophy, and society. He is known for his films and essays on AI, spirituality, and cultural narratives.
Stine Lomborg
Professor of Digital Communication, University of Copenhagen
Professor Stine Lomborg leads research on digital tracking, datafication, and AI in society. She is also a founder of the Center for Tracking & Society.
Sune Lehmann
Professor of Complexity and Network Science at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Professor of Data Science at the Center for Social Data Science, University of Copenhagen.
Sune Lehmann studies human behavior through network science and large-scale data. His research includes mobility, contagion, and social complexity.
Tobias Panduro
Head of Unit, Architecture and Technology, Danish Agency for Digital Government
Tobias Panduro leads digital growth and AI strategy in the Danish public sector, including European ecosystems. He has a background in political science and public administration.
Science for AI
Antoine Bosselut
Assistant professor at the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL)
Antoine Bosselut has a research focus on developing AI reasoning methods that can be effectively translated to important societal problems in health, education, and helping underserved communities.
Arnout Devos
Curator of Science for AI
Arnout Devos is the Scientific Coordinator of ELLIS and a Staff Member & Lecturer at the ETH AI Center, where they also co-head the ELIAS Alliance Node Zurich
Cécile Huet
Head of the Unit "Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics", part of the AI Office at theEuropean Commission.
Cécile Huet has been selected as one of the "25 women in robotics you need to know about" and she works to support beneficial robotics and AI development within Europe.
Jessica Montgomery
Jessica Montgomery is Director of ai@cam at the University of Cambridge and head the ELIAS Alliance Node Cambridge
Jessica Montgomery leads several research and policy programmes tackling real-world challenges in developing and deploying AI for societal benefit.
Matthias Bethge
Curator for Science for AI
Matthias Bethge is director of the Tübingen AI Center, co-founder of ELLIS and Head of the ELIAS Alliance
Miguel Rubio
Policy Officer at the European AI Office
Miguel Rubio works to promote policies that foster research and development of AI within the EU.
Nathan Benaich
Founder and General Partner of Air Street Capital
Nathan Benaich has many years of experience investing in AI-first companies and leads the non-profit RAAIS Foundation.
Nicu Sebe
Professor of Computer Sciences & Director of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento
Nicu Sebe leads research in multimedia information retrieval and human-computer interaction in computer vision applications.
Sahar Abdelnabi
Principal Investigator at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and research group leader at the MPI and Tübingen AI Center
Sahar Abdelnabi leads the COMPASS research group (COoperative Machine intelligence for People-Aligned Safe Systems).
Tim Rocktäschel
Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Centre for AI at University College London
Tim Rocktäschel's work focuses on Artificial General Intelligence, Open-Endedness, Foundational World Models, and Self-Improvement.
Zhijing Jin
Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, CIFAR AI Chair, an ELLIS advisor
Zhijing Jin's research focuses on Causal Reasoning with LLMs, and AI Safety in Multi-Agent LLMs.
Lucilla Sioli
Director of the "EU AI Office" within Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission
Lucilla Sioli is responsible for the coordination of the European AI strategy and its governance.
Serge Belongie
Chair of the AIS25 Steering Committee, Board President of ELLIS, Director of the Danish Pioneer Centre for AI, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen
Serge Belongie's research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, and Human-in-the-Loop Computing
Policy for AI in Science
Adeline Nazarenko
Director of CNRS Informatis
Adeline Nazarenko is the director of CNRS Informatics since early 2023.
Alistair Nolan
Senior Policy Analyst”, at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation
Alistair Nolan is a Senior Policy Analyst in the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation.
Carles Sierra
Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) EurAI Fellow.
Carles Sierra is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence, specialising in multi-agent systems, agreement technologies, and social AI.
Erasmo Purificato
Scientific Project Officer
Erasmo Purificato is a Scientific Project Officer at the European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).
Fabrizio Falchi
Research Director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Fabrizio Falchi is a Research Director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), working at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) in Pisa.
Jan Palmowski
Secretary General of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities
Jan Palmowski has been Secretary-General of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities since its creation in 2016.
Kurt Deketelaere
Sec-Gen LERU, Full Prof KU Leuven, Visiting Prof University of Helsinki, Chair Sustainability College Bruges, Director and Advisor
Professor Kurt Deketelaere is a highly respected legal scholar and policy expert in European research, innovation, education, energy, environment, climate, and sustainability policy.
Liviu Stirbat
Head of Unit, AI in Science and Critical Technologies, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
Liviu Știrbăț is the Head of AI in Science at the DG for Research and Innovation in the European Commission.
Markus Reichstein
Curator for Planet & Climate Science
Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Director, ELLIS Unit Jena; Director, ELLIS Program Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences; Professor for Global Ecology, University of Jena
Plamena Markova
Chief of International Relations, EMBL
Plamena Markova serves as the Chief of International Relations at EMBL and is a member of the EMBL Directorate.
Quentin Loisel
Scholar and innovator for MCAA AI Group, Stanford University METRICS and Health CASCADE Ltd
Quentin recently achieved his MSCA PhD fellowship. Coming from cognitive science, he was exploring how digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) can enable co-creation.
Steffen Bohni
Lead of the working group on AI in R&I, Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy (DFIR)
Since 2019, Steffen Bohni has been Director General of the Danish National Research Centre for the Working Environment.
Maria Cristina Russo
Director, Prosperity, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
Maria Cristina Russo is Director of the Prosperity Directorate in DG Research and Innovation.
Serge Belongie
Chair of the AIS25 Steering Committee, Board President of ELLIS, Director of the Danish Pioneer Centre for AI, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen
Serge Belongie's research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, and Human-in-the-Loop Computing
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