Faculty Structure

Departments, Chairs and Professorships

The Faculty of Informatics and Data Science (FIDS) at the University of Regensburg comprises five departments with a total of 26 chairs and professorships.

In the near future, three additional chairs will be included.

General Computer Science

from left: Meike Klettke, Philipp Rümmer, Juliane Krämer, Radu-Cristian Curticapean

• Algorithms and Complexity Theory (Prof. Dr. Radu-Cristian Curticapean)
• Computer Engineering (interim: Prof. Dr. Stefan Solbrig)
• Data Engineering (Prof. Dr. Meike Klettke)
• Data Security and Cryptography (Prof. Dr. Juliane Krämer)
• Theoretical Computer Science (Prof. Dr. Philipp Rümmer)

Machine Learning and Data Science

from left: Thomas Jaki, Merle Behr

• Computational Statistics (Prof. Dr. Thomas Jaki)
• Machine Learning (Prof. Dr. Merle Behr)

Human-Centered Computing

from left: Johanna Bogon, Niels Henze, Christian Wolff, Udo Kruschwitz, Bernd Ludwig

• Information Science (Prof. Dr. Udo Kruschwitz)
• Information Linguistics (Prof. Dr. Bernd Ludwig)
• Media Informatics (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff)
• Media Informatics (Prof. Dr. Niels Henze)
• Human–Computer Interaction (interim: Prof. Dr. Johanna Bogon)

Computational Life Science

from left: Stefan Canzar, Birte Kehr, Florian Erhard, Rainer Spang, Dorit Merhof

• Algorithmic Bioinformatics (Prof. Dr. Stefan Canzar)
• Algorithmic Bioinformatics (Prof. Dr. Birte Kehr)
• Image Analysis and Computer Vision (Prof. Dr. Dorit Merhof)
• Computational Immunology (Prof. Dr. Florian Erhard)
• Statistical Bioinformatics (Prof. Dr. Rainer Spang)

Information Systems

from left: Stefan Schönig, Julia Klier, Doğan Kesdoğan, Susanne Leist, Günther Pernul, Bernd Heinrich, Daniel Schnurr, Maria Leitner, Mathias Kraus

• Information Systems I (Prof. Dr. Günther Pernul)
• Information Systems II (Prof. Dr. Bernd Heinrich)
• Information Systems III (Prof. Dr. Susanne Leist)
• Information Systems IV (Prof. Dr. Doğan Kesdoğan)
• IoT-based Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Stefan Schönig)
• Internet Business and Digital Social Media (Prof. Dr. Julia Klier)
• Artificial Intelligence in IT Security (Prof. Dr. Maria Leitner)
• Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification (Prof. Dr. Daniel Schnurr)
• Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Business Value Creation (Prof. Dr. Mathias Kraus)

We are still growing

Appointment procedures currently underway:

• Full Professorship (W3) for Computer Engineering
• Full Professorship (W3) for Distributed Systems
• Full Professorship (W3) for Human–Computer Interaction
• Full Professorship (W3) for Programming and Software Engineering
• Full Professorship (W3) for Secure and Privacy-Enhancing AI Systems