Explaining, Verifying, and Aligning Semantic Hierarchies in Vision-Language Model Embeddings
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.26798 2026
I am a principal investigator at the University of Hamburg, where I co-lead the DFG projects LUMO and E4-MALM. My research focuses on robust reasoning and interpretability to build trustworthy AI systems. More information can be found on the Research, Teaching, and CV pages.
Research Interests
Latest News
- Mar 2026 Our DFG grant proposal “Evaluating, Explaining, and Enabling Ethical Multi-Agent Systems of Large Language Models” for the Priority Area LaSTing has been approved (with Prof. Anne Lauscher). See our position paper. We are hiring!
- Mar 2026 I am co-organizing the 5th International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL 2026), which is co-located with IJCAI 2026 and taking place in Bremen, Germany this year.
- Mar 2026 The LUMO project has now an official website with detailed information about the project, the team, and the research. Check it out!
Recent Publications
Knowing the Facts but Choosing the Shortcut: Understanding How Large Language Models Compare Entities
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026
Mental Modelling of Reinforcement Learning Agents by Language Models
Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2025
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