Ph.D. Students

Sofia Kostopoulou

Title: AI in the Newsroom

Advisors: Fabrizio Montesi

Start date: February 1, 2022

Jonas Vistrup

Title: Explainable AI and the Law

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp

Start date: August 1, 2022

Casper Asbjørn Eriksen

Title: Algorithmic Cheminformatics and Microbial Communities

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: August 15, 2022

Sissel Banke

Title: Algorithmic Cheminformatics Meets Causality Analysis

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: September 1, 2022

Abdullah Akgül

Title: Reinforcement Learning with Neutral Stochastic Processes

Advisors: Melih Kandemir

Start date: February 1, 2023

Muhammad Rajabinasab

Title: Machine Learing and XAI with Health Data

Advisors: Arthur Zimek

Start date: September 1, 2023

Adittya Pal

Title: Bridging the Gap from Quantum Chemistry to Rule-Based Generative Chemistry for Industrial Relevant Reaction Cascades

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: September 1, 2023

Esben Andreas Wrona Bay Sørensen

Title: Marine Primary Production in a Changing Arctic Ocean

Advisors: Stefan Jänicke

Start date: September 1, 2023

Camilla Vang Østergaard

Title: Visual Interface Design in the Context of the MEMORISE Project

Advisors: Stefan Jänicke

Start date: September 1, 2023

Erika Magdalena Herrera Machado

Title: Causality Analysis for Systems Chemistry

Advisors: Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg, Daniel Merkle

Start date: September 1, 2023

Tieu Long Phan

Title: Rule Inference – Converting 200 Years of Chemistry Knowledge to Graph Transformation Rules

Advisors: Jakob Lykke Andersen, Daniel Merkle

Start date: November 1, 2023

Anne-Susann Abel

Title: Design of Multienzyme Cascades Based on Declarative Descriptions: Novel Computational Approaches

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: November 1, 2023

Ying Jie Pan

Title: Design of Novel Pathways for Production of Bio-Based Chemicals in Multi-Enzyme Cascades

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: November 2, 2023

Joseph Smith

Title: Pathway Design for Chemical Upgrading and Co-Factor Recycling with Cell

Advisors: Daniel Merkle

Start date: January 1, 2024

Mikkel Posselt

Title: Quantum Mechanics and Chemical Graph Transformation

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: January 15, 2024

Hafiz Saud Arshad

Title: Advanced Unsupervised Evaluation and Model Selection for Clustering

Advisors: Arthur Zimek

Start date: February 1, 2024

Judith Kankam-Boateng

Title: Mapping the Cybersecurity Landscape in Danish SMEs

Advisors: Marco Peressotti, Peter Mayer

Start date: March 15, 2024

Jonas Stisen

Title: Efficient Graph Canonicalization and Subgraph Finding Approaches for Typed Attributed Chemical Graphs

Advisors: Jakob Lykke Andersen, Daniel Merkle, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: June 1, 2024

Johannes Borg Sandberg Petersen

Title: Computational Lipidomics and Mass Spectrometry – Learning Mechanistical Models

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: June 1, 2024

Aleksandra Weronika Szmigiel

Title: Domain-Specific Algorithms and Evaluation Methods for Clustering Problems in Gene-Expression Data Analysis

Advisors: Ricardo Campello

Start date: August 1, 2024

Seyed Ardalan Ghoreishi

Title: Graph-Based Approaches for Unsupervised Learning from High-Dimensional Data Sets

Advisors: Ricardo Campello

Start date: August 1, 2024

Viktor Strate Kløvedal

Title: Choreographic Programming of Distributed Protocols

Advisors: Fabrizio Montesi

Start date: August 19, 2024

Aleksandra Alshanova

Title: 3D-Informed Graph Rewriting for Atom Tracking and Predictive Modeling in Systems Chemistry

Advisors: Daniel Merkle, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: September 15, 2024

Marco Santamaria

Title: Foundations of Higher-Order Choreographic Programming

Advisors: Fabrizio Montesi

Start date: November 1, 2024

Leo Wennmann

Title: The Twilight Zone of Efficiency: Optimality of Quasi-Polynomial Time Algorithms

Advisors: Lars Rohwedder

Start date: January 1, 2025

Jacob Nielsen

Title: Efficient Model Architectures, Kernels, Training, and Inference Setups

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke, Melih Kandemir

Start date: February 1, 2025

Mogens Henrik From

Title: Efficient and Resilient Distributed Training, Automation, and Model Convergence

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke, Claudio Pica

Start date: February 1, 2025

Gianluca Barmina

Title: Pre-Training and Evaluation of Multi-Lingual LLMs for Domain-Specific Use-Cases

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke, Anne Lauscher

Start date: February 1, 2025

Stine Lyngsø Beltoft

Title: Primary School Teaching Assistant for Psychiatric Clinical Q&A, User Studies, and Knowledge Base Evaluation

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke, Niels van Berkel

Start date: February 15, 2025

Andrea Blasi Núñez

Title: Context-Aware Artificial Intelligence

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke

Start date: April 1, 2025

Magnus Victor Boock

Title: PAC Bayesian Offline Reinforcement Learning

Advisors: Melih Kandemir

Start date: August 1, 2025

Alessio Pellegrino

Title: Parallel Portfolio Solvers for NP-hard Problems

Advisors: Professor Jacopo Mauro

Start date: August 1, 2025

Stefano Volpe

Title: Foundations of Programming Languages

Advisors: Marco Peressotti, Stelios Tsampas

Start date: September 1, 2025

Venla Tuuli Sabina Liljas

Title: LLM In Modern Software Architecture

Advisors: Davide Taibi

Start date: November 1, 2025

Robin Faier

Title: Foundations of Reinforcement Learning

Advisors: Melih Kandemir

Start date: February 1, 2026

Kristóf Péter

Title: Modelling Very High Dimensional Data Spaces with Applications in Gene Expression Analysis

Advisors: Ricardo Campello

Start date: February 1, 2026

Annmette Brock Pirchert

Title: Developing and Understanding Flexible Multilingual Language Models

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke

Start date: February 15, 2026

Tobias Klink Lehn

Title: Graph-Based Methods for Algorithmic Cheminformatics and Metabolic Modelling

Advisors: Jakob Lykke Andersen, Daniel Merkle, Rolf Fagerberg

Start date: March 1, 2026

Antonino Fabio Coppola

Title: Short-Term Productivity, Long-Term Debt? Evaluating LLMs in Software Development Assistance

Advisors: Professor Valentina Lenarduzzi

Start date: March 1, 2026

Anna Blume Jakobsen

Title: Energy-Efficient Distributed Programming

Advisors: Fabrizio Montesi

Start date: March 1, 2026

Filippo Tonini

Title: Steering and Safety of Language Model Agents

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke

Start date: March 15, 2026

Mark Damon Walker

Title: Quantum Programming Beyond the Circuit Model

Advisors: Robin Kaarsgaard Sales

Start date: April 1, 2026

Danial Namazifard

Title: Mechanisms of Language Model Agents

Advisors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke

Start date: June 1, 2026

Krishna Narayanan

Title: Parameterized Algorithms and Polyhedra

Advisors: Lars Rohwedder

Start date: August 1, 2026