Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer

Employment

• Since 2021
  Professor for Application of Machine Learning at University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
• Since 2021
  Senior Researcher DFKI – Research Department Leader from 1.11
• Since 2016
  University of Warwick
  Associate Professor at the Mathematics Institute and the Department of Statistics (tenured) setting research agendas, and delivering courses, staying across current academic research in data and statistics and supervising PhD and MSc students.
• 2016-2021
  Alan Turing Institute
  1. Director for Data Study Groups since August 2017
  2. Lead for the Data Science for Social Good initiative since September 2018
  Co-Director for the Health & Medical Sciences Programme from August 2018
• 2017-2018
  Public International Limited
  Senior Consultant helping start-ups to transform the public sector
  As part of this role, I advised the data strategy and technical questions for start-ups including Cera Care, Fly Notes and Rota Geek. Additionally, we delivered a training programme to CQC to upskill their staff on machine learning.
• 2014-2016
  University of Oxford
  Departmental Lecturer at the Department of Statistics
  Junior Research Fellow Somerville College
• 2013-2014
  University of Oxford
  Postdoc with Professor Arnaud Doucet and Professor Yee Whye Teh on Bayesian Inference for Big Data with Stochastic Gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo

Education

• 2010-2013
  PhD in mathematics, University of Warwick
  ERC-studentship under the supervision of Professor Andrew Stuart and Professor Martin Hairer
  Title of PhD-thesis: “Consistent and Efficient Inference for Complex Models”
• 2009-2010
  MSc in mathematics with distinction, University of Warwick
  due to excellent performance at undergraduate level at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany - no BSc required