Professor Birte Glimm
Vice President for Teaching and Internationalisation

Areas of responsibility

  • Further development and strategic planning in degree programmes and teaching
  • Coordination of funding initiatives, partnerships, measures and projects in teaching
  • Overall management of the Centre for Teaching Development (ZLE)
  • Quality assurance in studies and teaching – institutional accreditation
  • Campus management (admissions, applications, management of students and examinations)
  • Student affairs
  • Professional continuing academic education – School of Advanced Professional Studies (SAPS)
  • Internationalisation aspects of teaching

Brief CV

Born:

1975

Education and training:

2001–2004:              Studied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg (HAW)
2004–2008:           Award of a doctoral degree in Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK

 Professional experience: 

2008–2011:          Postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK
2011–2017:    W1 professorship for Artificial Intelligence, Ulm University
Since 2017:    W3 professorship in Artificial Intelligence, Ulm University
Since 2022:      Head of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Ulm University   
2019–2022:      Chair of the Cognitive Systems Examination Board
2019–2023:    Chair of the Examination Board for Computer Science
2022–2023:    Deputy ombudsperson for Good Scientific Practice
2023–2026:    Dean of Studies, Computer Science
2023–2026:    Member of the Faculty Council for Computer Science
2024–2026:    Dean of Studies, Cognitive Systems
Since 2024      Member of the science council’s ‘AI in Research’ focus group/working group
Since 2025:     Member of the Senate and Funding Committee for
    Research Training Groups of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Since 2026:    Vice President for Teaching and Internationalisation, Ulm University

Main research focuses: 

Knowledge representation and automated reasoning
Intelligent action planning
Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Prizes and awards: 

2002–2004:           Scholarship from the German Industry Foundation
2004:Award: Best Computer Science Degree from HAW Hamburg
2004–2007:PhD scholarship from the German Business Foundation
2008:Steve Furber Medal for an outstanding award of a doctoral degree in Computer Science
2017:Mileva Einstein-Marić Prize
2017:Google Faculty Research Award    
2019:Science-Industry Cooperation Award

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