Full Professor for human-centric AI, researching on the interface of IS, CS and HCI

About

Hi there, I’m Niklas!

I’m a Full Professor of Information Systems and Human-Centric AI at the University of Bayreuth. I also lead a research group at Fraunhofer FIT, co-direct the FIM Research Center, direct the AI Responsibility Centre (ARC), and lecture at TUM. Before that, I worked as a Managing Consultant in Data Science at IBM.

My research sits where machine learning meets human-centric design. AI succeeds in practice only when we understand both the technology and how people actually work with it. My current focus:

  • Appropriate reliance: when people should (and shouldn’t) rely on AI, and how expertise, interfaces, and explanations shape that judgment.
  • Human-AI complementarity: designing human-AI teams that outperform either alone, especially in high-stakes domains like medicine.
  • Explainable AI in practice: explanations that support the real decisions domain experts make.
  • Fairness and societal impact: how AI distributes benefits and harms, and what responsible deployment requires.

Interested in working with me? Get in touch. Please note that I don’t supervise external PhDs, but you’re welcome to apply for an internal position.