Prof. Dr. Jana De Wiljes

The group is thrilled to announce that we've had some amazing visitors in the first month of this year. Nazanin Abedini from VU Amsterdam (Netherlands) joined us for an extended 5-week research stay in December and January. Additionally, we were honored to host Svetlana Dubinkina, also from VU Amsterdam, along with Emma Hannula and  Lassi Roininen from LUT University (Finland) Take a moment to explore impressions from these visits and Lassi's Colloquium Talk.

Dr. Gottfried Hastermann
Nazanin Abedini
Prof. Dr. Jana De Wiljes
AnLi Fotografie

Prof. Jana de Wiljes

Prof. Dr. Jana de Wiljes has headed the new Mathematics of Data Science Group at the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at TU Ilmenau since October 2023. Her academic career began with a doctorate in the field of machine learning at the specialized area of mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin. For her dissertation on data-driven discrete spatiotemporal models, she was awarded the Tiburtius Prize for doctoral students at Berlin universities for outstanding dissertations. Since June 2017, she has been Principal Investigator of various projects on data assimilation within a Collaborative Research Center funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In June 2022, Prof. de Wiljes was awarded the title of Dosentti (lecturer) in mathematics in the field of machine learning - comparable to a German habilitation - by the Department of Engineering at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology in Finland. read more