Prof. Dr. Thomas Bocklitz

Thomas Bocklitz studied physics at the University of Jena, receiving his PhD in physical chemistry/chemometrics in 2011. Since 2019, he has been head of the Photonic Data Science research group at the Leibniz IPHT. In 2023, he was appointed as a full professor of 'Artificial Intelligence in Spectroscopy and Microscopy' at the University of Bayreuth, and in 2024, as a professor of 'Photonic Data Science' at the University of Jena and the Leibniz IPHT. His main area of research is closely related to the photonic data lifecycle and includes the machine learning and chemometric modelling of photonic data. He has published over 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has delivered over 50 invited talks at conferences. His work has been honoured with prestigious awards such as the Kaiser-Friedrich Research Prize in 2018 and the Bruce Kowalski Award in 2015. In 2023, he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for the STAIN-IT project.