The career path of Peter Gehler, our new professor for Machine Learning Engineering and Technology Transfer, is truly inspiring. After studying in Bielefeld, during an internship in Canada, his colleagues told him: “If you want to do machine learning in Germany, you have to go to Tübingen!” He followed that advice, starting at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in 2005, completing his PhD in 2009. From there, his academic journey took him to ETH Zurich, TU Darmstadt, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of Tübingen. He also served as a Professor for Digital Media Processing at the University of Würzburg.

In 2017, Peter transitioned to industry, joining Amazon as a Senior Applied Scientist and co-founding the Amazon Research Center in Tübingen. In 2023, he took on a new challenge as a Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Zalando in Berlin, working on generative AI for fashion and developing recommendation systems for clothing sizes.