Mini-profiles of STEM Role models 9

Happy international Women’s day! Given the popularity of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the University of Groningen mini-profiles, I have decided to extend the series to continue to provide as many role models in STEM as I can publish.

If you’re interested in taking part, please e-mail me your answers to the questions below and a fun picture of yourself at: k.m.tych@rug.nl with the title ‘STEM Role Models mini-profile’. Thank you!

This mini-profile is of Assistant professor in the Intelligent Systems group at the University of Groningen and Rosalind Franklin Fellow, Kerstin Bunte. I hope you enjoy it and the rest of the series!

Job title:

Assistant professor in the Intelligent Systems group (Bernoulli Institute, FSE, RUG)

Subject area:

Developing machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithms

How did you get into science?:

Growing up in a working class family I wished to study early on and chose an interdisciplinary program back in Germany.
My PhD supervisors and a lot of lucky circumstances set me on my path in academia, which I happily follow ever since.

Where else have you worked/studied?

Bielefeld Univesity (Germany): Computer Science, RUG (the Netherlands): Computer Science PhD, Bielefeld University (Germany) postdoc, Aalto University (Finland) postdoc, UCLouvain (Belgium) postdoc, University of Birmingham (UK) Marie Curie Fellow

What are your hobbies/what do you do for fun?

All kinds of water sports, such as: canoeing, swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving